Wytheville Senators
August 7, 2020
Appalachian League (1960) Born: 1960 Re-Branded: 1961 (Wytheville Twins) First Game: June 24, 1960 (L 10-4 vs. Bluefield Orioles) Last Game: September 1, 1960 (W
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Toledo Pride
August 7, 2020
The Toledo Pride were a One-Year Wonder indoor soccer outfit, playing in the Midwest-based American Indoor Soccer Association. The Pride played a winter schedule during 1986-87, filling empty dates at the Toledo Sports Arena after the city’s long-time minor league ice hockey club went out of business earlier in 1986. The Pride closed their doors after one season of play.
Tulsa Tornado’s
August 2, 2020
So grim was the state of professional outdoor soccer in the United States in 1985 that only 13 games were staged by American pro clubs that calendar year. All of these matches were put on by the United Soccer League (USL), a barely solvent gaggle of four teams spread across Florida, Texas and Oklahoma that folded after only one month of competition. The Tornado’s – the team’s nonsensical apostrophe is not a typo – were one of the USL’s many trouble spots.
Kansas City Sizzlers
July 19, 2020
Continental Basketball Association (1985-1986) Born: June 28, 1985 – CBA expansion franchise Moved: May 14, 1986 (Topeka Sizzlers) First Game: December 7, 1985 (L 113-108
New Haven Senators
July 9, 2020
New Haven’s long-time American Hockey League franchise, the Nighthawks, took on a new identity during the summer of 1992 after signing an agreement to be the top farm club for the NHL’s new expansion club, the Ottawa Senators. But all was not well in New Haven, despite the honeymoon phase of a new relationship.