Homestead Grays (1912-1951)
May 14, 2025
The Homestead Grays are one of the best known teams to have played in the Negro Leagues, though they were an independent team for much of their existence.
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Minnesota Fighting Saints
April 24, 2025
The Minnesota Fighting Saints were charter members of the World Hockey Association (WHA). They folded midway through the 1975-76 season, only to be reborn when the Cleveland Crusaders moved to the Twin Cities.
Seattle Steelheads
April 21, 2025
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.
San Francisco Sea Lions (WCNBA)
March 29, 2025
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.
Abilene Aviators
May 28, 2024
The Aviators were a messy, Texas pro hockey outfit that stumbled through one-and-a-half-seasons in the low-level Western Professional Hockey League in 1998 and 1999. A promising debut season on the ice culminated in a divisional title. But the Aviators’ multiple ownership fiascos ultimately sunk the club midway through its second campaign.