Defunct Teams
- Cincinnati Red Stockings 1876–1880
- Cleveland Blues 1879–1884
- Detroit Wolverines 1881–1888
- Hartford Dark Blues 1876–1877 – transferred from National Association; based in Brooklyn in 1877
- Indianapolis Blues 1878
- St. Louis Maroons/Indianapolis Hoosiers 1885–1889. Maroons transferred from Union Association in 1885; moved to Indianapolis and renamed the Hoosiers in 1887
- Kansas City Cowboys 1886
- Louisville Grays 1876–1877
- Louisville Colonels 1892–1899 – transferred from American Association; merged with Pittsburgh Pirates
- Milwaukee Grays (or Cream Citys) 1878
- Mutual of New York 1876 – transferred from National Association
- Athletic of Philadelphia 1876 – transferred from National Association
- Providence Grays 1878–1885
- St. Louis Brown Stockings 1876–1877 – transferred from National Association
- Syracuse Stars 1879
- Troy Trojans 1879–1882
- Washington Nationals 1886–1889
- Worcester Ruby Legs 1880–1882
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Famous quotes containing the words defunct and/or teams:
“The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not “studying a profession,” for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)