Tag: One-Year Wonders

1972 Anderson Giants baseball program from the Western Carolinas League

Anderson Giants

April 20, 2022

The Anderson Giants were a South Carolina-based minor league baseball team that played one season in the Class A Western Carolinas League during the summer of 1972. Despite the club’s chosen name, the Anderson Giants were not a farm team of the San Francisco Giants, but rather a so-called “co-op” team made up of low-level prospects loaned out by various Major League organizations. Co-op teams were typically weak performers and the Anderson Giants were no exception, finishing their only season in last place.

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Richmond Wildcats

April 2, 2022

The Richmond Wildcats played just 38 games in the faltering Southern Hockey League during the winter of 1976-77. Richmond’s crippling financial problems forced its players to play nearly half the 1976-77 season without salaries or insurance and contributed to the eventual collapse of the SHL midway through its fourth season.

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1984 Buffalo Storm program from the United Soccer League

Buffalo Storm

March 25, 2022

The Buffalo Storm were a professional soccer club that played in the United Soccer League during the summer of 1984. The team was composed largely of offseason players from the far more popular Buffalo Stallions indoor soccer team. The Storm were hampered by numerous problems including the lack of lights for night time play at All-High Stadium and folded after only one season of play.

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2000-01 Border City Bandits program from the Central Hockey League

Border City Bandits

February 26, 2022

The Border City Bandits were an ill-conceived minor league hockey outfit that went belly-up midway through their first and only Central Hockey League season during the winter of 2000-01. The border cities, in the Bandits case, were the twin cities of Texarkana on either side of the Arkansas-Texas boundary. The Bandits established their offices in Texarkana, Texas but played their games across the border in a converted rodeo arena in Texarkana, Arkansas.

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2001 Tyler Roughnecks baseball program from the All-American Association

Tyler Roughnecks

February 21, 2022

The Tyler Roughnecks were an independent professional baseball club that played for only one season at Mike Carter Field. The Roughnecks were founding members of the six-team All-American Association. The league featured clubs in small cities across Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee and Texas. The team moved to Jackson, Mississippi following the 2001 season.

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