Tag: Midseason Meltdowns

1979 Panama Banqueros Inter-American League

Panama Banqueros

June 18, 2019

The Panama Banqueros were one of six ball clubs in the doomed Inter-American League experiment of 1979. The league included the Miami Amigos plus five Caribbean teams in the Dominican Republic, Panama, Puerto Rico and Venezuela. Remarkably, the unproven Inter-American League received a Class AAA designation (one step below Major League Baseball) from the governing body of the minor leagues, the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues. This despite the fact that none of the teams had an affiliation with a Major League parent club.

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Orlando Apollos Alliance of American Football

Orlando Apollos

June 1, 2019

The Orlando Apollos were first and only champions – more or less – of the Alliance of American Football (AAF). The Steve Spurrier-coached club had the league’s best record (7-1) when the league collapsed in bankruptcy and recrimination with two weeks remaining in its inaugural season. With the playoffs cancelled as well, bookmaker FanDuel declared the Apollos champions of the AAF for the purposes of resolving futures bets placed by their customers. Read more…

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Larry Cannon Georgia Titans Basketball

Georgia Titans

April 10, 2019

All-American Basketball Alliance (1978) Born: 1977 – AABA founding franchise Folded: February 1978 First Game: January 13, 1978 (L 127-119 @ Kentucky Stallions) Last Game: January 30,

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Arizona Hotshots Alliance of American Football

Arizona Hotshots

April 3, 2019

Someday we will get to all eight defunct clubs of the Alliance of American Football here on FWiL, but we’ll start today with the Arizona Hotshots. Either because we are going alphabetically, or because it’s the only AAF team we’ve been able to track down a game program for the anchor the article. (R.I.P. game programs, by the way).

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Poul Popiel on the cover of a 1979 Houston Apollos program from the Central Hockey League

Houston Apollos (1979-1981)

December 5, 2018

The 1979-1981 Houston Apollos were a doomed minor league hockey entry in the Central Hockey League (CHL). The name was a tribute a previous CHL club named the Apollos that played from 1965 to 1969 as a Montreal Canadiens farm team. Both the versions of the Apollos played in the old Sam Houston Coliseum. The “new” Apollos folded in the middle of their second season in January 1981.

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