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Gold Coast Suns Senior Professional Baseball Association

Gold Coast Suns

April 10, 2020

The Gold Coast Suns were a One-Year Wonder in the Senior Professional Baseball Association, a Florida-based attempt to establish a winter pro circuit for players 35 years of age and older. The Suns played most of their games at Pompano Beach with a handful in Miami as well. Team owner Russ Berrie, a wealthy toy manufacturer, at one point traded 500 Teddy Ruxpin dolls to the Winter Haven Super Sox for the rights to sign 48-year old pitcher Luis Tiant. The Suns folded after one season of play in 1990.

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1988 New York Knights Media Guide from the Arena Football League

New York Knights (1988)

November 8, 2011

The Knights were New York City’s first experience of the newly developed sport of Arena Football back in the summer of 1988. The roster included a collection of ex-replacement players from the 1987 NFL player strike along with refugees from the recently defunct United States Football League. The Knights lasted just one season and a mere six home games at Madison Square Garden before going out of business.

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