Tag: One-Year Wonders

Grays Harbor Mets

February 2, 2021

The Grays Harbor Mets were a short-season Class A farm team of the New York Mets that lasted for one season in Hoquiam, Washington during the summer of 1979. Formerly a non-affiliated club known as the Grays Harbor Loggers, the team took on the “Mets” identity after signing a Player Development Contract with New York for the 1979 season. But the marriage was an unhappy one. When New York pulled out at the end of 1979, Grays Harbor returned to independent status and went back to the Loggers name for their final season in 1980.

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Quincy Giants

January 31, 2021

The Quincy Giants were a minor league football outfit that played for one season in this border city on the southern edge of Boston during the fall of 1969.  The franchise previously played in northern Massachusetts as the Lowell Giants from 1966 to 1968. The Giants were members of the Atlantic Coast Football League, competing against teams from Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

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Houston Seagulls

January 30, 2021

Truly dreadful semi-pro football team that absorbed seven straight lopsided defeats during the summer of 1977 before deciding to fold up their tent. Incredibly, the Houston Seagulls produce an NFL success story despite their short & woeful life. 24-year old cement truck driver and ex-Seagull Johnnie Dirden walked into Houston Oilers training camp the following spring and made the team as a kick returner. Dirden went on to a 5-year career in the NFL and USFL.

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Pacific Suns

January 22, 2021

The Pacific Suns were a rather cursed minor league baseball outfit that struggled through a single summer of play in Oxnard, California in 1998. The team played on the campus of Oxnard College and were the first pro baseball team to set up shop in Ventura County since the departure of the equally short-lived Ventura County Gulls in 1986.

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Mississippi Coast Gamblers

January 17, 2021

The Mississippi Coast Gamblers were a penniless minor league basketball outfit that staggered through a single campaign in the low budget United States Basketball League during the summer of 1994. The Gamblers played at Biloxi’s Mississippi Coast Coliseum. 8-year NBA veteran Terry Catledge was the team’s best known player.

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