The original Detroit Stars Negro League baseball team was established in 1919 as an independent barnstorming club. In 1920, they became charter members of the Negro National League (NNL). The NNL was the first organized Negro League.
The Jersey Knights were New Jersey’s first pro hockey team. They were established when the New York Golden Blades of the World Hockey Association moved to Cherry Hill, NJ, across the river not from the Big Apple, but Philadelphia. The club moved to San Diego after completing the 1973-74 season.
The Homestead Grays are one of the best known teams to have played in the Negro Leagues, though they were an independent team for much of their existence.
Houston’s dreams of landing a Major League Baseball team go back at least as far as the 1950s. The threat of a third major league, the proposed Continental League, yielded Houston a National League expansion franchise that was known as the Houston Colt .45s for its first three seasons.
The St. Louis Browns baseball team was established when the Milwaukee Brewers of the American League moved to Missouri in 1902. The club moved east in 1953 and became the Baltimore Orioles.
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