Greatest team name ever?

The team owned by SI's (maybe former SI) Alexander Wolff. Paid 10 grand and wrote little columns about his team's goings-on. Played in two different arenas (one in Burlington and one in Barre).

 

The Amarillo Dillos deserve a mention.

 

Cairo (pronounced Cay-ro, as in Karo syrup) Syrupmakers

Johnson of Savannah Atom Smashers

And, of course, the Yuma Criminals.

 

Many years ago I covered an IHL team and the Flint Generals moved to another town and Flint got a new team. They had a name-the-team promotion and eventually were named the Spirits, but I always thought they missed a big marketing opportunity when they didn't name them the Flint Stones.

 

2 arenas would qualify them as a stable ABA franchise.

And when did Swing of the Quad Cities (Midwest League) come about? Didn't they used to be the Mallards or something?

 

Also, Poca (W. Va.) Dots

 

From Minnesota:

Blooming Prairie Awesome Blossoms.

 

Simple. Downtown Pittsburgh is known as the Golden Triangle, thanks to how the rivers combine. Thus, Three Rivers Stadium as well.


Anybody remember the XFL's New York Hitmen?

Hey, does anybody remember the XFL?

And another vote here for Macon Whoopees. I believe it was plural.


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So taken was I by the above names, I googled this heretofore unheard of conference that you speak of.

Thus, I was able to find that, in women's basketball action, the Central Arkansas Sugar Bears recently defeated the Arkansas-Monticello Cotton Blossoms.

Could we possibly get more antebellum? Is there another school in this conference like the Eastern Arkansas Gentlemen of the Highest Breeding and Comportment?

 

I followed the Cal League rather closely through the 90s. I believe the Quakes lineage can be traced back to the Ventura Gulls (the closest minor-league team to me when I first lived in SB County), who played there for one season before moving to San Bernardino (the Spirit), then SB moved to Rancho and the Salinas team moved to become the new San Bernardino Spirit.

Went to a game in Riverside when the team was called the Pilots. They ended up moving to Lancaster.

 

Ann Arbor Huron High School had River Rats well before Albany...

And I have three from the upper peninsula of Michigan -- Kingford Flivvers, Ishpeming Hematites and of course, the Watersmeet Nimrods....

 

Fluvanna County Flying Flucos.