The Library

The Baltimore Blue Crabs 2001–2031 Down the bay and back again. Two cities, three names, one piece of unfinished business. The Big Horn Rams 2001–2031 Fifteen Octobers. Two finals. No trophy. A sound in the valley that settles nothing. The Boston Beacons 2001–2031 Ten Octobers and never a final. The light that gets other people home. The Chicago Black Sox 2001–2031 Three cities, eleven Octobers, one final, and not one division flag. The Cincinnati Regents 2001–2031 From Peachtree to Tobacco Road to the Ohio. Two crowns won, a third still chased. The Denver Dynamite 2001–2031 Six championships, the most in the league. Eleven second-place finishes. The Fort Collins Roosters 2001–2031 Thirteen Octobers. No trophy. A bird that crows before the light. The Galveston Gremlins 2001–2031 An island that rebuilds. A franchise that bets. The long search for the far shore. The Huron Herons 2001–2031 The stillness and the strike. Three crowns, and the worst seasons in the division. The Kansas City Scouts 2012–2031 Four Cy Youngs in four years, and one series short of the end of the trail. The Las Vegas High Rollers 2001–2031 Nineteen Octobers. Two crowns. Over the long run, the house wins. The Memphis Blues 2001–2031 Twelve bars, three chords, and everybody knows how it ends. They come anyway. The Mexico City Luchadores 2012–2031 Twenty years, no division flag, and a Hall of Famer who never pitched in October. The Milwaukee Mobsters 2001–2031 Two crowns, seventeen years apart. A business that never advertised. The Montreal Machine 2001–2031 It ran for seven years, won everything once, and sat idle for twenty. The Myrtle Beach Mermen 2001–2031 Twenty-nine summers of heat in Texas. One November on top. Then the water. The New Orleans Mudcats 2001–2031 Two crowns, twenty-one Octobers, and a city that never rushes the song. The New York Empire 2012–2031 A province, a capital, a decade of rule, and a collapse nobody saw coming. The Oahu Paddlers 2001–2031 One island. Fifteen Octobers. One unforgettable November. The Oklahoma City Outlaws 2001–2031 Twenty-two Octobers. Seven flags. No final. The horizon never closes. The Philadelphia Eagles 2001–2031 The first champions, and twenty-nine years on the fence post. The Phoenix Firebirds 2001–2031 Two trips to the final in the first four years. None in the twenty-seven since. The bird still waiting to rise. The Rochester North Stars 2012–2031 Eleven years at the bottom of the sky. Nine years as the fixed point. The San Diego Seals 2001–2031 The deep and the surface, and nothing in between. One November on top of the world. The San Juan Stogies 2001–2031 Three names, two cities, one man. And a title won from third place. The Somerville Moneyline 2001–2031 Twenty-six Octobers. Four final series. No trophy. The surest bet in baseball. The Southland Masked Bandits 2001–2031 A thousand home runs from two men, and not one division flag. The Spokane Sasquatches 2001–2031 One afternoon it walked out of the trees. Everything else is tracks and argument. The Tampa Bay Cannons 2001–2031 Two hundred-win summers, nine Octobers, and never once a final. The Toronto Griffins 2001–2031 Two crowns, two collapses, nine Hall of Famers. A creature of two natures. The Vancouver Vandals 2001–2031 Three Cy Youngs, three Most Valuable Players, a hundred-win summer. And the word that stuck was the one about wreckage. The Virginia Rebels 2001–2031 Twenty Octobers before the water got over the wall.