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Michael Adams on the front of a 1986 Springfield Fame pocket schedule from the United States Basketball League

Springfield Fame

The Springfield Fame was a minor league basketball outfit that played two summer seasons in Western Massachusetts in 1985 and 1986. Springfield is the host city of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, which inspired the team’s name. Future NBA All-Star guard Michael Adams and female star Nancy Lieberman both played for the Fame during the team’s brief existence.

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