Month: November 2018

2009 American Defenders of New Hampshire Baseball Pocket Schedule from the Can-Am League

American Defenders of New Hampshire

November 27, 2018

The American Defenders of New Hampshire were an ill-conceived independent pro baseball team that set up shop at Nashua’s Holman Stadium in 2009. Ownership’s heavy-handed military fetish extended to a plush soldier mascot named “Ground Zero” who sported the uniform number 9-11. Nashua fans wisely saved their money and the team was evicted from the stadium late in the season for unpaid bills that included stiffing the first responders who provided police and fire details at Defenders home games. Incredibly, former Boston Red Sox General Manager and future Baltimore Orioles GM Dan Duquette was mixed up in this mess.

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Mia Hamm on the cover of a 2001 Washington Freedom program from the Women's United Soccer Association

Washington Freedom

November 25, 2018

Congratulations to the Washington Spirit of the National Women’s Soccer League on winning their first NWSL with a 2-1 triumph over Chicago Red Stars on November 20th, 2021. Today let’s look back at D.C.’s original championship women’s club, the Washington Freedom, featuring Mia Hamm and Abby Wambach.

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Montana Golden Nuggets Continental Basketball Association

Montana Golden Nuggets

November 24, 2018

The Montana Golden Nuggets were a stellar minor league basketball team that played out of Great Falls, Montana during the early 1980’s. The Nuggets lasted three seasons in the Continental Basketball Association, the top minor league in North America at the time. Ex-San Antonio Spurs guard George Karl coached the Golden Nuggets for their entire existence. He led the team to the 1981 and 1983 CBA championship series and was named the league’s Coach-of-the-Year in both of those seasons.

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1988 Waterloo Indians baseball program from the Midwest League

Waterloo Indians

November 20, 2018

The Waterloo Indians were an Iowa-based Class A farm club of the Cleveland Indians from 1977 until 1988. The Tribe arrived in October 197 replace the departing Kansas City Royals as Waterloo’s parent club. Waterloo won Midwest League crowns in 1980 and 1986 and posted only two losing seasons during a twelve-year run under the Indians’ banner. The club changed its name to the Waterloo Diamonds in 1989.

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1999 Fort Wayne Wizards baseball yearbook from the Midwest League

Fort Wayne Wizards

November 20, 2018

When the Kenosha (WI) Twins moved to Fort Wayne in late 1992, it marked the return of men’s pro baseball to the northeast Indiana city for the first time in 45 years. The Midwest League club dropped the “Twins” identity in favor of the more kid-friendly “Wizards” when it arrived in Fort Wayne. But the franchise remained a Class A farm club of the Minnesota Twins for six more seasons through 1998. The team changed names again to the TinCaps in 2009, a re-branding effort timed to coincide with the opening of $30 million Parkview Field that same year.

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