Once upon a time – 1995, to be exact – there was a new minor league baseball entry in the Midwest League to be known as the Battle Creek Golden Kazoos. Locals took a dim view of the name – they hated it, actually. But the absentee owner lived in Virginia and it’s not clear that community uproar alone would have been enough to silence the Golden Kazoos. Enter local oddball George Hubka.
The Greensboro Hornets were a popular Class A minor league baseball team that played from 1979 through 1993. The Hornets led the Western Carolinas League and its successor, the South Atlantic League, in attendance for fourteen consecutive seasons between 1979 and 1992. While serving as a New York Yankees farm team during the early 1980’s, the Hornets would three consecutive South Atlantic League championships in 1980, 1981 and 1982. The franchise remains in Greensboro to this day, but gave up the Hornets name in favor of the ‘Bats’ in 1994 and changed names again in 2005, becoming the ‘Grasshoppers’.
Southern Hockey League (1995-1996) Born: June 1995 – The Daytona Beach Sun Devils rebrand as the Breakers Folded: July 16, 1996 First Game: October 25,
The Madison Muskies were the last Major League-affiliated minor league baseball team that make their home in Wisconsin’s capital city. The Hatters replaced the departing Madison Muskies of the Class A Midwest League after that franchise left town in late 1993. The Hatters, who served as a farm club of the St. Louis Cardinals, would play only one season in Madison during the summer of 1994 before leaving town themselves. The Hatters moved to Battle Creek, Michigan and became the Michigan Battle Cats in 1995.
The Tampa Bay Terror were a short-lived indoor soccer team that sought to revive the glory days of indoor soccer in the Tampa Bay-St. Petersburg area. From 1979 to 1982 the Tampa Bay Rowdies of the North American Soccer League routinely sold out the 5,000-seat Bayfront Center for indoor matches. By the time the Terror arrived in late 1995, national interest in indoor soccer had plummeted and the more captivating story on the local soccer scene was the impending arrival of Major League Soccer’s Tampa Bay Mutiny in 1996.
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