Birmingham Americans NY Black Yankees The Sabios de Vargas baseball

The Sabios de Vargas baseball club became a founding member of the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League in its inaugural season of 1946

a new group of owners established the Express

they played until 1926

15 miles northeast of downtown

Paul to become the New Fighting Saints

Birmingham Americans NY Black Yankees The Sabios de Vargas baseballThe Birmingham Americans were charter members of the World Football League in 1974. They won that league's championship, World Bowl I, and as it turned out, only. Immediately after the game, a 22 21 win over the Florida Blazers, the team's uniforms were confiscated by sheriff's deputies to settle the teams debts. The team returned in 1975 with new ownership and a new name, Vulcans, in the "new" WFL. However, the Vulcans, and the rest of the league