Sport: Basketball (Men's)

1972-73 Memphis Tams Program from the American Basketball Association

Memphis Tams

February 22, 2023

The Tams were the middle entry of three Memphis entries in the American Basketball Associations during the early 1970’s, taking the floor at the Mid-South Coliseum from 1972 through 1974. The team’s odd name was an acronym for Tennessee-Arkansas-Mississippi and the club used a tam o’ shanter cap as its logo. Charles O. Finley, the outspoken owner of the Oakland A’s of Major League Baseball and the NHL’s California Golden Seals, owned the club but seemingly took little interest in it. Like the A’s and the Golden Seals, the Tams wore Finley’s preferred colors of green, gold and white.

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2001-02 Dakota Wizards Ticket Brochure from the Continental Basketball Association

Dakota Wizards

October 22, 2022

The Dakota Wizards were a long-running minor league basketball team that played for 17 seasons at the Civic Center is Bismarck, North Dakota between 1995 and 2012. That lifespan marked that Wizards as one of the more durable minor league hoops outfits in American history. After three losing seasons in their first four years, the Wizards would emerge as a minor league power of sorts. During the club’s final thirteen seasons from 1999 through 2012, the Wizards would win four league titles and suffer only two losing campaigns.

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1999-00 Rochester Skeeters program from the International Basketball Association

Rochester Skeeters

October 7, 2022

The Rochester Skeeters were a Minnesota-based minor league hoops outfit that played two International Basketball Association (IBA) seasons at the Mayo Civic Center between 1998 and 2000. The IBA was a low-budget league that operated primarily in the Upper Midwest and Western Canada. The Skeeters left town after two seasons, moving to Salina, Kansas during the summer of 2000.

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New Haven Elms Eastern Professional Basketball League

New Haven Elms

October 28, 2021

The New Haven Elms were a hard-luck entry in the Eastern Professional Basketball League during the late 1960’s. Before the debut of the American Basketball Association in 1967, the Eastern League was considered the second best league in the country. Notable Elms players included former St. Louis Hawks teammates Cleo Hill and Woody Sauldsberry, both early black stars who struggled against NBA efforts to obstruct their careers.

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