The Jersey Knights were New Jersey’s first pro hockey team. They were established when the New York Golden Blades of the World Hockey Association moved to Cherry Hill, NJ, across the river not from the Big Apple, but Philadelphia. The club moved to San Diego after completing the 1973-74 season.
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.
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 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.
The Baltimore Stallions played two seasons in the CFL starting in 1994. The most successful of the league’s American teams, they went to the Grey Cup following both seasons, winning in 1995. The team experienced grief off the field from the NFL, first with a lawsuit over using the name Colts, then by the relocation of the Cleveland Browns.
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