⚾ MLB: 1962-2020
59
Joined the National League as an expansion team to begin the 1962 season.
⚾ MLB: 1901-2020
120
One of the eight original American League teams beginning with the 1901 season.
Left Baltimore and relocated to New York to begin the 1903 season.
🏈 NFL: 1925-2020
96
One of five teams that joined the NFL in 1925, and the only one of that group still existing. Acquired several nicknames, including "Big Blue", the "G-Men", and the "Jints"
🏈 NFL: 1960-2020
61
🏀 NBA: 1947-2020
74
🏀 NBA: 1968-2020
53
NHL: 1975-2020
46
NHL: 1973-2020
48
NHL: 1927-2020
94
One of the Original Six teams that competed in the NHL before its 1967 expansion, and the first NHL franchise in the United States to win the Stanley Cup.
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WHA: 1973-1974
2
🏀 ABL3: 1962-1962
1
⚾ MLB: 1884-1957
74
Left the American Association to join the National League to begin the 1890 season.
Left Brooklyn and relocated to Los Angeles to begin the 1957 season.
Franchise currently exists as the Los Angeles Dodgers.
⚾ MLB: 1883-1957
75
Entered the National League in 1883.
Left New York and relocated to San Francisco to begin the 1958 season.
🏈 NFL: 1949-1951
3
🏈 AAFC: 1946-1949
4
⚾ NNL: 1935-1948
14
First all-Hispanic team to travel to the United States and stage exhibition games, against established Negro league powerhouse teams. In 1907, they were replaced by the Cuban Stars, which became accepted as an independent Negro baseball team.
⚾ NNL: 1935-1948
14
Formed when the Newark Dodgers merged with the Brooklyn Eagles. The owners Eagles purchased the Dodgers and combined the teams' assets and player rosters. The owner of the Dodgers signed the team over in exchange for cancellation of an approximately $500 debt
⚾ NNL: 1931-1948
18
The team was founded as the Harlem Black Bombers in 1931 by financier James "Soldier Boy" Semler and dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. By 1932 the team was named the Harlem Stars and by 1933 became the New York Black Yankees.
🏈 AAFC: 1946-1948
3
🏀 WPBT: 1939-1948
10
Formerly the New York Renaissance, or Rens, moved to Dayton, Ohio in the middle of the NBL season to replace the Detroit Vagabond Kings, who went out of existence on December 17, 1948.
🏀 ABL: 1947-1947
1
The team folded during their only season.
🏀 ABL: 1945-1947
3
🏀 WPBT: 1947-1947
1
🏀 ABL: 1945-1947
3
⚾ USNL: 1945-1946
2
Members of the short-lived and mysterious USNL developed by Branch Rickey prior to integration of blacks in baseball.
🏀 WPBT: 1939-1945
7
🏀 WPBT: 1942-1945
4
🏀 WPBT: 1945-1945
1
🏈 NFL: 1930-1944
15
🏀 ABL: 1944-1944
1
🏀 ABL: 1943-1944
2
Moved to Brooklyn during on January 18, 1943 and dropped out of league during the 1st half of the 1943/44 season.
🏀 ABL: 1932-1943
12
The team dropped out during the 1st half of the 1941/42 season, but returned for the next season, before folding.
NHL: 1926-1942
17
🏈 AFL3: 1940-1941
2
🏀 WPBT: 1934-1941
8
Merged with the New Britain Jackaways to become the New Britain Mules on January 18, 1935, folding thereafter.
🏀 ABL: 1937-1941
5
🏀 ABL: 1932-1940
9
Absorbed into the New York Jewels on January 26, 1940
🏀 ABL: 1910-1940
31
Absorbed into the Troy Celtics on December 19, 1939.
🏀 WPBT: 1938-1939
2
They dropped out of the league on January 11, 1938 near the halfway point of their first and only season.
🏀 ABL: 1922-1939
18
🏈 AFL2: 1936-1937
2
🏀 ABL: 1923-1937
15
⚾ Negro: 1905-1936
32
One of the prominent independent teams prior to World War I before organized league play began. Fell into decline after joining the Eastern Colored League, then returning to independent status as a mostly semi-pro squad.
⚾ Negro: 1916-1936
21
An independent team that played in the New York and northeast region of the United States. Because of their ties to the region they were also referred to as the New York Cuban Stars.
🏈 AFL2: 1936-1936
1
🏀 ABL: 1936-1936
1
⚾ NNL: 1934-1935
2
Newark Dodgers merged with the Brooklyn Eagles to form the Newark Eagles in 1936. Owners Eagles purchased the Dodgers and combined the teams' assets and player rosters.The previous owner of the Dodgers, signed the team over in exchange for cancellation of an approximately $500 debt.
🏀 ABL: 1934-1935
2
Merged with the Newark Mules to become the New Britain Mules for the second half of the 1934-35 season, folding thereafter.
🏀 ABL: 1933-1934
2
🏀 MBL2: 1932-1933
2
🏀 MBL2: 1932-1933
2
🏀 MBL2: 1933-1933
1
🏀 MBL2: 1933-1933
1
🏀 MBL2: 1932-1933
2
🏀 MBL2: 1933-1933
1
🏀 MBL2: 1933-1933
1
⚾ NEWL: 1932-1932
1
Lasted only one season, quickly fading along with most other teams during the Great Depression.
🏈 NFL: 1929-1932
4
🏀 MBL2: 1932-1932
1
🏀 ABL1: 1910-1931
22
⚾ Negro: 1911-1930
20
Founded as the first colored pro team in the west. and were the dominant team in 1911, 1912 and 1913, winning the eastern championship each year. In 1914, the owner lost control of the Lincoln Giants name, and formed a rival team, the Lincoln Stars.
🏈 NFL: 1902-1930
29
In 1929 Ole Haugsrud, the owner of Duluth Eskimos, sold his NFL franchise rights for the Eskimos to Piggy Simandl, a wholesale meat salesman and sports promoter from Orange, who named his franchise the Orange Tornadoes
🏀 ABL1: 1922-1930
9
⚾ ANL: 1916-1929
14
Founded when two African-American politicians moved the Duval Giants of Jacksonville, Florida, to Atlantic City in 1916 and renamed them after Harry Bacharach, the city's mayor.
🏈 NFL: 1926-1928
3
C. C. Pyle
🏀 MBL: 1923-1928
6
🏀 MBL: 1910-1928
19
🏀 MBL: 1920-1928
9
🏀 MBL: 1910-1928
19
🏀 NBL2: 1927-1927
1
🏀 NBL2: 1927-1927
1
On November 16, 1926, Ridgewood-Orange merged with Newburgh-Jersey City to form Ridgewood-Newburgh franchise.
🏀 NBL2: 1927-1927
1
On November 16, 1926, Ridgewood-Orange merged with Newburgh-Jersey City to form Ridgewood -Newburgh franchise.
🏀 NBL2: 1927-1927
1
On November 16, 1926, Ridgewood-Orange merged with Newburgh-Jersey City to form Ridgewood -Newburgh franchise.
🏀 MBL: 1922-1927
6
🏀 MBL: 1923-1927
5
🏀 MBL: 1927-1927
1
⚾ ECL: 1926-1926
1
Lasted only one season, quickly fading along with most other teams during the Great Depression.
🏈 AFLG: 1926-1926
1
Humbert Fugazy
🏈 AFLG: 1926-1926
1
William Coughlin1
🏈 ELPF: 1926-1926
1
🏈 ELPF: 1926-1926
1
🏀 ABL1: 1926-1926
1
🏀 MBL: 1926-1926
1
🏀 MBL: 1926-1926
1
🏀 MBL: 1920-1926
7
🏀 NYSL: 1912-1924
13
🏀 NYSL: 1913-1924
12
🏀 NYSL: 1916-1924
9
🏀 NYSL: 1916-1924
9
🏀 NYSL: 1917-1924
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🏀 EBL: 1911-1923
13
🏀 MBL: 1922-1923
2
🏀 MBL: 1922-1923
2
🏀 MBL: 1923-1923
1
🏀 MBL: 1916-1923
8
🏀 MBL: 1922-1922
1
🏈 NFL: 1921-1921
1
🏀 CSL: 1917-1921
5
🏀 IBL: 1917-1920
4
⚾ Negro: 1914-1917
4
Although they lasted less than four years, they were a good team that featured three players who would later be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame—Oscar Charleston, John Henry Lloyd, and Louis Santop.
🏀 IBL: 1917-1917
1
🏀 IBL: 1917-1917
1
🏀 IBL: 1917-1917
1
⚾ Negro: 1915-1916
2
Sunday baseball was not yet legal under blue laws in New York City, so major league teams often traveled to the seaside resort community of Long Branch to play Sunday games against the Cubans.
🏀 IBL: 1916-1916
1
🏀 IBL: 1916-1916
1
🏀 IBL: 1916-1916
1
🏀 NYSL: 1916-1916
1
⚾ Negro: 1886-1915
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The all-black team achieved victory over so many of the nearby amateur "white" teams that they attracted the attention of a promoter who clandestinely named them the "Cuban Giants". The team remained one of the premier Negro league teams for nearly 20 years.
⚾ FL: 1914-1915
2
Team disbanded after the Federal League folded following the 1915 season.
⚾ FL: 1915-1915
1
Relocated from Indiana to New Jersey for marketing purposes by Federal League executives after the team won the 1914 championship.
Team disbanded after the Federal League folded following the 1915 season.
🏀 NYSL: 1910-1914
5
🏈 NYPFL: 1913-1913
1 1
⚾ USBL: 1912-1912
1
New York disbanded May 26, 1912
🏀 HRBL: 1910-1912
3
🏀 HRBL: 1910-1912
3
🏀 HRBL: 1912-1912
1
🏀 HRBL: 1911-1911
1
⚾ NACB: 1910-1910
1
⚾ IL: 1896-1906
11
Originally most of the players were former Cuban Giants, hence "ex-Giants". Similarly, the original players were not actually Cuban, but used that moniker to distract from the all-black roster which had negative connotations at the time.
⚾ Negro: 1899-1905
7
The team was the first Latin American professional baseball team to tour the United States, playing against white semiprofessional and Negro league teams.
🏈 WPPFC: 1894-1905
12
🏀 MCBL: 1904-1904
1
🏈 WPPFC: 1903-1903
1
🏈 WPPFC: 1897-1903
7
🏈 WPPFC: 1903-1903
1
🏀 NBL1: 1900-1903
4
⚾ Negro: 1886-1892
7
During their short existence the Gorhams grew to be one of the most successful black professional clubs in the country and challenged the supremacy of the Cuban Giants.
⚾ AA: 1890-1890
1
Failed to finish their only season, folding in August of 1890.
⚾ PL: 1890-1890
1
Team was purchased by the Brooklyn Bridegrooms of the National League after the Players League folded following the 1890 season.
⚾ PL: 1890-1890
1
Team was purchased by the New York Giants of the National League after the Players League folded following the 1890 season.
⚾ AA: 1858-1887
30
The franchise folded and player contracts were purchased by the American Association Brooklyn franchise at the end of the 1887.
⚾ NL: 1877-1877
1
Left the National Association to become one of 8 founding clubs of the National League in 1876.
Left Hartford and relocated to Brooklyn to begin the 1877 season.
Franchise folded following the 1877 season.
⚾ NL: 1858-1876
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Left the National Association to become one of 8 founding clubs of the National League in 1876.
Franchise folded after being expelled from the league for failing to complete its final road trip of the 1876 season.
⚾ NA: 1855-1875
21
Team disbanded after the National Association folded following the 1875 season.
⚾ NA: 1873-1873
1
Franchise folded after playing 23 games in the National Assocation during 1873.
⚾ NA: 1856-1872
17
After its only year in the National Association, the franchise folded following the 1872 season.
⚾ NABBP: 1855-1870
16
⚾ NABBP: 1866-1869
4
⚾ NABBP: 1854-1868
15
⚾ NABBP: 1868-1868
1
⚾ NABBP: 1868-1868
1
⚾ NABBP: 1859-1868
10
⚾ NABBP: 1856-1867
12
⚾ NABBP: 1860-1867
8
⚾ NABBP: 1855-1866
12
⚾ NABBP: 1852-1866
15
⚾ NABBP: 1866-1866
1
⚾ NABBP: 1864-1866
3
⚾ NABBP: 1860-1866
7
⚾ NABBP: 1866-1866
1
⚾ NABBP: 1866-1866
1
⚾ NABBP: 1846-1865
20
⚾ NABBP: 1857-1862
6
⚾ NABBP: 1858-1861
4
⚾ NABBP: 1856-1860
5
⚾ NABBP: 1856-1859
4
⚾ NABBP: 1857-1859
3
⚾ NABBP: 1859-1859
1
⚾ NABBP: 1858-1859
2
⚾ NABBP: 1858-1859
2
⚾ NABBP: 1857-1858
2
⚾ NABBP: 1858-1858
1