The Daytona Beach Admirals were a short-lived entry in the Class A Florida State League, operated by long-time Chicago Cubs and National League executive Blake Cullen. The team would last only one season as a Chicago White Sox farm club during the summer of 1987. But Cullen continued on as a minor league sports investor and one year later he recycled the ‘Admirals’ name for his wildly successful minor league hockey team in Norfolk, Virginia.
The Vancouver Nighthawks were a dead-on-arrival minor league basketball promotion that set up shop at the gargantuan B.C. Place stadium in the summer of 1988. Team owner Don Burns abandoned the club early in the season. The Nighthawks finished in last place in the six-team World Basketball League and quietly folded. The World Basketball League had one peculiar rule: eligible players were allowed to be no taller than 6′ 5″ tall!
Continental Basketball Association (1992-1993) Born: October 2, 1992 – Re-branded from Albany Patroons Moved: May 26, 1993 (Hartford Hellcats) First Game: November 21, 1992 (W 97-94
The Maryland Mustangs were an obscure United States Basketball League team that played for one season at the Show Place Arena in Prince Georges County during the spring of 2001. The team was coached by Boston Celtics legend and Professional Basketball Hall of Famer Robert Parish in his first – and only – professional head coaching gig. Parish won the USBL’s Coach of the Year honors for the Mustangs’ first year excellence. The Mustangs went out of business after completing their first and only season.
For one season, during the summer of 1970, Salt Lake City, Utah hosted the top farm club of the San Diego Padres in the Pacific Coast League. The Salt Lake Padres suffered a wretched season on the field and the short-lived partnership remains sufficiently obscure that both Baseball-Reference.com and some editions of The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball published by Baseball America mis-identify the 1970 Salt Lake teams as the “Bees”, the historic name used by various Salt Lake City clubs dating back to the early 19th century.
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