The Dallas-Fort Worth Spurs were a popular minor league baseball entry of the late 1960’s, co-owned famed sports investor Lamar Hunt. Future Major League stars Don Baylor, Bobby Grich, Joe Niekro, Doug DeCinces and Enos Cabell also spent time in a Spurs uniform. The Spurs were displaced when Major League Baseball’s Washington Senators moved to Arlington in 1972 and became the Texas Rangers.
That the Dallas Tornado existed as long as they did – 15 seasons from 1967 to 1981 – is a testament to the endurance of American Football League founder Lamar Hunt and fruitcake baron Bill McNutt. The Tornado existed longer than the famed New York Cosmos. They developed the first American-born “Superstar” of the soccer (at least by ABC’s definition) in Kyle Rote Jr. But the team was never wildly popular in Dallas. The club wandered around the metroplex in nomadic fashion, shifting among five different stadiums in little more than a decade of play.
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