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unusual facts about expansion team



Australian rules football in New South Wales

In 2008 the AFL stated their intention to establish a second team in Sydney by 2012, to be an expansion team based in the western suburbs.

Seattle Rainiers

Seattle had been granted an expansion team in the American League, the ill-fated Seattle Pilots, which began play in 1969.

Wid Matthews

In January of 1961, Matthews became a scout for the Mets, newly admitted to the National League as a 1962 expansion team.


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1938–39 AHL season

The Hershey Bears, based in Hershey, Pennsylvania, transfer from the Eastern Amateur Hockey League to the I-AHL as an expansion team, playing in the West Division.

1977–78 AHL season

The Hampton Gulls, based in Hampton, Virginia, transfer to the AHL as an expansion team, from the defunct Southern Hockey League, and play in the South Division.

Adrian Hanauer

By November, the two had brought in Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and comedian Drew Carey as investors and MLS had announced Seattle as the next expansion team.

Alpena Thunder

Findlay Grrrowl and expansion team Danville Express, leaving the Thunder scrambling to find a league.

Asi Taulava

On September 22, 2010, he was traded to the expansion team Meralco Bolts in exchange for Jason Misolas and Khasim Mirza as part of a three-team deal with the Barako Bull Energy Boosters.

Bill Torrey

Bill Torrey began his hockey career in the AHL in the mid-1960s, with the Pittsburgh Hornets, but his talent soon landed him a job as Vice-President of the Oakland Seals, a recently created expansion team in the NHL.

Danville 97s

However the effect changed when the new team would absorb the Durham Bulls name and the Bulls' Carolina League history because the Bulls starred in the film Bull Durham and also the Triple-A expansion team was awarded to the Bulls' owners the Capitol Broadcasting Company in which automatically the new team would be operated by the Bulls' operating entity Durham Bulls Baseball Club, Inc. which operated the Bulls in the Carolina League.

Davy Arnaud

On November 28, 2011, Arnaud was traded to new expansion team Montreal Impact for defender Seth Sinovic and allocation money.

Fort Wayne Safari

The Fort Wayne Safari was officially announced in 2000 as an expansion team in the Indoor Professional Football League (IPFL) and based out of Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Hampton Roads Rhinos

By 1996 George Shinn, owner of the then Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association (NBA) indicated that he was looking to the Hampton Roads as a potential location for a NHL expansion team.

History of Washington, D.C. professional baseball

The American League Washington Senators (1961-1971): This expansion team began play in Washington immediately following the departure of the former franchise.

Lone Star Football League

All of the LSFL's charter teams were based in the state of Texas, with five teams coming from the Southern Indoor Football League, three from the Indoor Football League, plus one expansion team.

Nashville Municipal Auditorium

On November, 6th 2013 the Professional Indoor Football League (PIFL) announced that an expansion team would bring indoor football back to the Nashville sports market.

New Haven County Cutters

They began play in 1996 as an expansion team in the North Atlantic League.

North Shore Navigators

After sweeping the Rhode Island Reds in a best-of-three series that saw two rain outs, the Giants went on to defeat the Torrington Twisters, a first-year expansion team, for the 1997 NECBL Championship, the Fay Vincent Cup.

Randy Waldrum

Waldrum was named as the first head coach for the NWSL expansion team the Houston Dash ahead of the 2014 season.

Reunion Sports Group

The group is also part of a partnership to build a proposed 10,000 seat baseball stadium to house an expansion team to begin play in 2010 in Dallas, Texas.

Seattle Rainiers

In 1977, another American League expansion team was awarded to Seattle, the Seattle Mariners.

Timeline of WHL history

Three weeks after the initial vote, the league grants Chilliwack an expansion team named the Chilliwack Bruins for play in the 2006–07 WHL season.

Trip MacCracken

Upon graduation from law school in 1999, MacCracken joined the Cleveland Browns for their first season as an expansion team.