Despite its name, Augusta, Georgia’s long-running Minor League Baseball club of the mid-20th century had an on-and-off relationship with the Detroit Tigers over the decades. The team’s final years as a Tigers farm team from 1955 to 1958 yielded superb baseball teams but were marred by a horrific and fatal stadium tragedy in May 1955.
The Detroit Cougars were a short-lived effort to bring pro soccer to Detroit in the late 1960’s. Detroit Lions owner William Clay Ford and Detroit Tigers owner John Fetzer headlined the list of financial backers for the Cougars. The Cougars played for two seasons in 1967 and 1968 in separate leagues and with entirely different rosters each year. Both campaigns were dreadful with the club posting a combined lifetime record of 9 wins, 27 losses and 7 draws.
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