The Library

The Baltimore Blue Crabs 2001–2032 Down the bay and back again. Two cities, three names, one piece of unfinished business. The Big Horn Rams 2001–2032 Sixteen Octobers. Two finals. No trophy. A sound in the valley that settles nothing. The Boston Beacons 2001–2032 Eleven Octobers and never a final. The light that gets other people home. The Chicago Black Sox 2001–2032 Three cities, eleven Octobers, one final, and not one division flag. The Cincinnati Regents 2001–2032 From Peachtree to Tobacco Road to the Ohio. Two crowns won, a third still chased. The Denver Dynamite 2001–2032 Six championships, the most in the league. Eleven second-place finishes. The Fort Collins Roosters 2001–2032 Thirteen Octobers. No trophy. A bird that crows before the light. The Galveston Gremlins 2001–2032 An island that rebuilds. A franchise that bets. The long search for the far shore. The Huron Herons 2001–2032 The stillness and the strike. Three crowns, and the worst seasons in the division. The Kansas City Scouts 2012–2032 Four Pitcher of the Year awards in four years, and one series short of the end of the trail. The Las Vegas High Rollers 2001–2032 Nineteen Octobers. Two crowns. Over the long run, the house wins. The Memphis Blues 2001–2032 Twelve bars, three chords, and everybody knows how it ends. They come anyway. The Mexico City Luchadores 2012–2032 Twenty-one years, no division flag, and a Hall of Famer who never pitched in October. The Milwaukee Mobsters 2001–2032 Two crowns, seventeen years apart. A business that never advertised. The Montreal Machine 2001–2032 It ran for seven years, won everything once, and sat idle for twenty. The Myrtle Beach Mermen 2001–2032 Twenty-nine summers of heat in Texas. One November on top. Then the water. The New Orleans Mudcats 2001–2032 Two crowns, twenty-one Octobers, and a city that never rushes the song. The New York Empire 2012–2032 A province, a capital, a decade of rule, and a collapse nobody saw coming. The Oahu Paddlers 2001–2032 One island. Fifteen Octobers. One unforgettable November. The Oklahoma City Outlaws 2001–2032 Twenty-three Octobers. Seven flags. No final. The horizon never closes. The Philadelphia Eagles 2001–2032 The first champions, and thirty years on the fence post. The Phoenix Firebirds 2001–2032 Two trips to the final in the first four years. None in the twenty-eight since. The bird still waiting to rise. The Rochester North Stars 2012–2032 Eleven years at the bottom of the sky. Ten years as the fixed point. The San Diego Seals 2001–2032 The deep and the surface, and nothing in between. One November on top of the world. The San Juan Stogies 2001–2032 Three names, two cities, one man. And two titles, won from third place and from fourth. The Somerville Moneyline 2001–2032 Twenty-seven Octobers. Five final series. No trophy. The surest bet in baseball. The Southland Masked Bandits 2001–2032 A thousand home runs from two men, and not one division flag. The Spokane Sasquatches 2001–2032 One afternoon it walked out of the trees. Everything else is tracks and argument. The Tampa Bay Cannons 2001–2032 Two hundred-win summers, nine Octobers, and never once a final. The Toronto Griffins 2001–2032 Two crowns, two collapses, nine Hall of Famers. A creature of two natures. The Vancouver Vandals 2001–2032 Three Pitcher of the Year awards, three Most Valuable Players, a hundred-win summer. And the word that stuck was the one about wreckage. The Virginia Rebels 2001–2032 Twenty Octobers before the water got over the wall.