What do the NBA’s New Orleans Hornets, Utah Jazz and Los Angeles Lakers have in common? Each team’s nickname predates its current city. The Hornets came from Charlotte, the Jazz moved from New Orleans, and the Lakers once played in Minneapolis. So it is with the Zephyrs, originally the Denver Zephyrs, who moved to New […]
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Lake Charles eying pro ball
Lake Charles officials have begun preliminary discussions of independent North American League baseball in that Louisiana city, an effort that would include a new ballpark. The last pro team in Lake Charles was the Lake Charles Giants, who played in 1957 at Legion Field. That ballpark still exists, but it’s not suitable for the pro […]
New summer-collegiate league launches in Texas, Louisiana
We now have two summer-collegiate leagues in Texas and Louisiana, as the Hall of Fame Baseball League (HOFL) will launch this coming season with six teams in Fort Worth, Granbury, Mineral Wells, Tyler, Weatherford and Shreveport. Wayne Poage, the former Director of Athletics at Dallas Baptist University and the architect of the Texas Collegiate League […]