Author: Drew Crossley

1969 Plessisville Braves baseball program from the Provincial Baseball League

Plessisville Braves

July 3, 2022

Digital-age information is rather scant on the Plessisville Braves, a 1960’s fixture in Quebec’s Provincial Baseball League. As far as we can tell, the Braves formed ahead of the 1960 season. In this era, the league was essentially a semi-pro circuit and rosters consisted entirely of native Quebeckers. Perhaps the most prominent local was Montreal-born hockey star Gilles Marotte, who moonlighted as a catcher for the Braves in 1965 and 1966 during his offseason breaks from the National Hockey League’s Boston Bruins

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Grand Rapids Jets

July 2, 2022

The Grand Rapids Jets were a minor league baseball club that competed in the Class A Central League from that organization’s formation in 1948 through the circuit’s final season during the summer of 1951. The Jets served as a Chicago Cubs farm team for their final two seasons.

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FunWhileItLasted.net contributes to ESPN's 37 Words Title IX documentary

Fun While It Lasted Contributes to ESPN’s 37 Words Docuseries

June 22, 2022

Fun While It Lasted was proud to contribute to the recent release of ESPN’s 37 Words docuseries honoring the 50th anniversary of the landmark federal Title IX legislation. 37 Words is the first of three sports documentary projects scheduled for release in 2022 and 2023 that FWIL has provided archival & consulting services on.

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1995 Tyler Wildcatters baseball program from the Texas-Louisiana League

Tyler Wildcatters

June 16, 2022

The Tyler Wildcatters’ debut in May of 1994 marked the return of professional baseball to Texas’ Rose City for the first time since the Tyler Tigers of the Big State League played their final inning in 1955. The Wildcatters were charter members of the Texas-Louisiana League, a centrally-owned eight club independent loop that operated without Major League affiliations.

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1979 Buffalo Geminis semi-pro football program

Twin City Geminis / Buffalo Geminis

June 1, 2022

The Geminis were a long-running semi-pro football outfit that played in the Buffalo, New York region during the 1970’s and into the early 1980’s. The team was known as the Twin City Geminis in its early years, representing the suburbs of Tonawanda and North Tonawanda and playing primarily at Vetter Stadium, a high school football field in North Tonawanda. From 1979 to 1982, the team played at War Memorial Stadium and was known as the Buffalo Geminis.

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