First things first: It’s never good when the most famous game in team history is a loss. “28-3” has also transcended similar franchise-shattering setbacks in that it is remembered more as farce than tragedy. The ball going through Bill Buckner’s legs was a tragedy. Blowing a
The Angels have primarily played in one city, Anaheim, since becoming Major League Baseball’s 18th franchise in 1960. That hasn’t stopped them from having four different city names. Originally the “Los Angeles” Angels, the Halos arrived back at that moniker in 2016 after decades of municipality identity crisis.
It would be inaccurate to say casual sports fans forget the Columbus Blue Jackets exist. That’s because all sports fans forget they exist. The “Jackets” are objectively the least successful franchise in the smallest of the “big four” North American leagues. They have the lowest lifetime “points percentage” of
The history of sports in America is now long enough that more of it is forgotten than remembered. The Baltimore Orioles were once the St. Louis Browns. St. Louis, like Philadelphia and Boston, was once a two-team town. Even “back then” the economics of it didn’t really make
The New York Giants have played in New Jersey since 1976. If that seems like a rather rude way to greet you, it’s by design. Although the Maras and Tisches who have long owned this franchise have always tried to project a more cultured manner, there’s something a
When I think of the Charlotte Hornets, I think of T-shirts. Maybe with a giant, funky wasp, or perhaps an airbrushed Alonzo Mourning. Before the internet and social media, we had fewer outlets to express ourselves, and corporate T-shirts were just one of the ways you did it
Slowly circumnavigating the United States, the “Athletics” are our most vagabond franchise. Originally from the northeast in Philadelphia, there have been waystations in the midwestern plains (Kansas City) and Pacific expanse (Oakland). They plan to soon begin the long journey back eastward with a decades-long residency in Las Vegas’
I am a writer in need of a project. For me, the words flow freely … after the river has been cleared of its debris. Unfortunately, living at the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri, the driftwood gathers quickly around here. I need an excuse to keep the channel operable.