The Seattle Steelheads were members of the West Coast Negro Baseball Association (WCNBA) in that circuit’s only season, 1946. The team was actually the Harlem Globetrotters baseball club and returned to barnstorming when the WCNBA ceased operations.
The Kanas City Monarchs are perhaps the best known Negro Leagues baseball team of all time. They played from the inception of the first Negro league in 1920 until finishing up as a barnstorming team in 1965.
The San Francisco Sea Lions were members of the West Coast Negro Baseball Association (WCNBA) in that circuit’s only season, 1946. After the WCNBA folded, the Sea Lions continued on as a barnstorming team until the spring of 1949.
What happened to the Oakland Seals National Hockey League team that played at the Oakland Arena from 1966 to 1976? It’s fascinating tale of hockey from the Bay Area to Cleveland to Minnesota and back to Oakland.
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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