Negro Leagues

• Austin Black Senators
  Austin Black Senators
  The Austin Black Senators were a professional baseball team based in Austin, Texas which played in the Negro Leagues. The Black Senators adopted the name of their white, Texas League counterparts sometime in the early 1910s. The team started as an independent, then joined the Texas Negro League...
  
   (early 1910s)
• Houston Eagles
• San Antonio Black Bronchos
• San Antonio Black Indians
• Waco Black Navigators
• Waco Black Cardinals
• Fort Worth Wonders
• Waco Yellowjackets
• San Antonio Bombers
• San Angelo Black Sheep Herders
• Galveston Flyaways
• Fort Worth Black Panthers
• Dallas Black Giants
• Mineola Black Spiders
  Mineola Black Spiders
  The Mineola Black Spiders, also called the Texas Black Spiders, were an independent, generally all-black baseball team. They originated in and were loosely based from Mineola, Texas....
  
  
• Waco Tigers
• Jasper Steers
• Dallas Brown Bombers
• Houston Black Buffaloes
• Fort Worth Black Cats
• Wichita Falls Black Spudders
• Paris Giants
• Abilene Eagles
  Abilene Eagles
  The Abilene Eagles were a West Texas League minor league baseball team based in Abilene, Texas, USA. They existed from 1920 to 1922, winning the league championship in both 1920 and 1921under managers Bugs Young and Ed Kizziar and Grady White and Hub Northen . They finished in sixth place in 1922...
  
  
• Fort Worth Giants
• Cleburne Yellow Jackets

American Association of Independent Professional Baseball

• Coastal Bend Aviators
  Coastal Bend Aviators
  The Coastal Bend Aviators were a minor league baseball team which played in Robstown, Texas, in the United States from 2003 to 2007. They were a member of the Central Baseball League, then the American Association and were not affiliated with any Major League Baseball team.The team played at...
  
   (2003-2007)

Big State League (1947-1957)

• Abilene Blue Sox
  Abilene Blue Sox
  The Abilene Blue Sox were a minor league baseball team that operated in the West Texas-New Mexico League from 1946-1955 and the Big State League from 1956-1957. The Abilene Blue Sox are considered to be in the top 100 Minor League Baseball teams of all-time. They were an affiliate of the Brooklyn...
  
   (1956-1957), moved from West Texas-New Mexico League
  West Texas-New Mexico League
  The West Texas-New Mexico League was a minor league baseball league that operated from 1937 through 1955. The league was not active in 1943-1945 because of World War II...
  
  
• Austin Pioneers (1947-1955)
• Beaumont Exporters or Beaumont Shippers (1956); Beaumont Pirates (1957)
• Bryan Majors (1953); Bryan Indians (1954)
• Corpus Christi Clippers (1954-1957)
• Del Rio Indians (1954)
• Gainesville Owls (1947-1951)
• Galveston White Caps (1954-1955), moved from Gulf Coast League
  Gulf Coast League
  The Gulf Coast League is a minor league baseball league which operates in Florida. It is a Rookie League, with a season running from mid-June to late August. The season is 60 games long and teams in the league are divided into three divisions, East, North and South...
  
  
• Greenville Majors (1947-1950), moved from East Texas League
  East Texas League
  The East Texas League was a Texas-based league in minor league baseball that existed on-and-off from 1916 to 1950.-1916:In 1916, the first East Texas League began play. A Class-D league, it folded on July 19 of that season. The "league champions," by default, were the Palestine Athletics and Lufkin...
  
   (1946); Greenville Majors (1953)
• Harlingen Capitals (1954-1955), moved from Gulf Coast League
  Gulf Coast League
  The Gulf Coast League is a minor league baseball league which operates in Florida. It is a Rookie League, with a season running from mid-June to late August. The season is 60 games long and teams in the league are divided into three divisions, East, North and South...
  
   (1951-1953) and Rio Grande Valley League (1950)
• Longview Cherokees (1952-1953)
• Lubbock Hubbers (1956), moved from West Texas-New Mexico League
  West Texas-New Mexico League
  The West Texas-New Mexico League was a minor league baseball league that operated from 1937 through 1955. The league was not active in 1943-1945 because of World War II...
  
  
• Paris Red Peppers (1947), moved from East Texas League (1946); Paris Panthers (1948); Paris Indians (1952-1953)
• Port Arthur Sea Hawks (1955-1956), moved from Evangeline League (1954) and Gulf Coast League (1950-1953); Port Arthur Redlegs (1957)
• Sherman-Denison Twins (1947-1951)
• Temple Eagles (1949-1954); Temple Redlegs (1957)
• Texarkana Bears (1947-1953), moved from East Texas League (1946)
• Texas City Hubbers (1955); Texas City Exporters (1956)
• Tyler East Texans (1951-1953); Tyler Tigers (1954-1955)
• Victoria Eagles (1956); Victoria Rosebuds
  Victoria Rosebuds
  The Victoria Rosebuds were a minor league baseball team in the Double-A Texas League located in Victoria, Texas, between 1958 and May 27, 1961, when the club was transferred to Ardmore, Oklahoma, because of attendance woes. Club owner Tom O'Connor, Jr., a local rancher, suffered a heart attack in...
  
   (1957), moved to Texas League (1958-1961)
• Waco Dons (1947); Waco Pirates (1948-1953), (1954-1956)
• Wichita Falls Spudders
  Wichita Falls Spudders
  The Wichita Falls Spudders were a minor league baseball team that formed in 1920 and played its last game in 1957. They were based in Wichita Falls, Texas....
  
   1947-1953, moved to Longhorn League
  Longhorn League
  The Longhorn League was the name of a Minor league baseball circuit that operated from through in the Southwestern United States. In , it was renamed the Southwestern League and operated through before changing its name to the Sophomore League....
  
   (1954); Wichita Falls Spudders
  Wichita Falls Spudders
  The Wichita Falls Spudders were a minor league baseball team that formed in 1920 and played its last game in 1957. They were based in Wichita Falls, Texas....
  
   (1956-1957)

Central Baseball League

Central Baseball League

The Central Baseball League, formerly the Texas-Louisiana League, was a minor league whose member teams were independent of any Major League Baseball affiliations.In 1991, potential owners, Dallas businessman Byron Pierce and U. S...

• Abilene Prairie Dogs
  Abilene Prairie Dogs
  The Abilene Prairie Dogs were a minor-league baseball team in the former Texas-Louisiana League. Beginning in 1995, the Prairie Dogs, , began play at Abilene Christian University's Crutcher Scott Field...
  
   (1995-1999)
• Coastal Bend Aviators
  Coastal Bend Aviators
  The Coastal Bend Aviators were a minor league baseball team which played in Robstown, Texas, in the United States from 2003 to 2007. They were a member of the Central Baseball League, then the American Association and were not affiliated with any Major League Baseball team.The team played at...
  
   (2003-2007)
• Corpus Christi Barracudas
• Lubbock Crickets
  Lubbock Crickets
  The Lubbock Crickets were a minor league baseball team that played in Lubbock, Texas from 1995 to 1998. The team was named after Buddy Holly's band, The Crickets. The Crickets played their home games at Dan Law Field on the campus of Texas Tech University...
  
   (?-1995)
• Rio Grande Valley WhiteWings
  Rio Grande Valley WhiteWings
  The Rio Grande Valley WhiteWings are a professional baseball team based in Harlingen, Texas, in the United States. The WhiteWings are a member of United League Baseball, an independent professional league which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball or Minor League Baseball...
  
   (1994-2003, 2006-2007) now Harlingen WhiteWings (2008-present)
• San Antonio Tejanos
  San Antonio Tejanos
  The San Antonio Tejanos are a now-defunct baseball team which belonged to the Texas-Louisiana Baseball League, which later became the Central League. The team lasted for one year, and in 1995 moved to Laredo, Texas, becoming the Laredo Apaches....
  
   (1995)
• Tyler Wildcatters
  Tyler Wildcatters
  The Tyler WildCatters were a minor league baseball team located in Tyler, Texas. The team, which existed from 1994 to 1997, played in the independent Texas-Louisiana League, and was un-affiliated with any major league baseball team...
  
   (1994-1997)

Mexican League

• Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos (Owls of the Two Laredos) (1940-1984) renamed Tecolotes de Nuevo Laredo
  Tecolotes de Nuevo Laredo
  The Tecolotes de Nuevo Laredo formerly known as the Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos were a Mexican Baseball League team that played in the Zona Norte of the Mexican League. The Ciudad Deportiva's Estadio Nuevo Laredo is their home baseball park which has a capacity of 12,000 fans...
  
   (1985-Present)

Texas Association (Class-C)

Texas League

Texas League

The Texas League is a minor league baseball league which operates in the South Central United States. It is classified a Double-A league. The league was founded in 1888 and ran through 1892...

• Alexandria Aces
• Amarillo Giants
• Amarillo Gold Sox
  Amarillo Gold Sox
  The Amarillo Gold Sox was the name of a minor league baseball franchise that represented the city of Amarillo, Texas, in the Class D West Texas-New Mexico League, the Class A Western League and the Class AA Texas League at various times between 1939 and 1982....
  
   (1939 – 1982)
• Amarillo Sonics
• Ardmore Rosebuds
• Ardmore Territorians
• Austin Braves
• Austin Senators
• Beaumont Exporters
  Beaumont Exporters
  The Beaumont Exporters were a franchise in American minor league baseball that played in the Texas League from 1920-49 and 1953-55. The city of Beaumont, Texas, was also represented in the Texas League from 1912-17 and 1919 as the Oilers, from 1950-52 as the Roughnecks, and from 1983-86 as the...
  
   (1920-49) and (1953-55)
• Beaumont Golden Gators
  Beaumont Golden Gators
  The Beaumont Golden Gators were a minor league baseball team in the double A Texas League from 1983 to 1986. Owned by insurance man Ted Moor, the team was an affiliate of the San Diego Padres for their entire tenure...
  
   (1983-1986)
• Beaumont Millionaires
• Beaumont Oil Gushers
• Beaumont Oilers
• Brenham Orphans
• Cleburne Railroaders
  Cleburne Railroaders
  The Cleburne Railroaders was a minor league baseball team located in Cleburne, Texas. The Railroaders were members of the class Double-A Texas League. After joining the league in , the Railroaders captured that year's league title. However, the club folded after that season....
  
   (1906-1907)
• Corpus Christi Giants
• Corsicana Oil Citys
• Corsicana Oilers
• Dallas Eagles (1958-1964)
• Dallas Giants (1958 – 1964) under name Dallas Rangers
  Dallas Rangers
  The Dallas Rangers were a high-level minor league baseball team located in Dallas, Texas, from 1958-64. The team was known by the Dallas Rangers name in 1958-59 and 1964 and as the Dallas-Fort Worth Rangers from 1960-63...
  
  
• Dallas Griffins
• Dallas Marines
• Dallas Rangers
  Dallas Rangers
  The Dallas Rangers were a high-level minor league baseball team located in Dallas, Texas, from 1958-64. The team was known by the Dallas Rangers name in 1958-59 and 1964 and as the Dallas-Fort Worth Rangers from 1960-63...
  
   (1958 – 1964)
• Dallas Rebels (1958 – 1964) under name Dallas Rangers
  Dallas Rangers
  The Dallas Rangers were a high-level minor league baseball team located in Dallas, Texas, from 1958-64. The team was known by the Dallas Rangers name in 1958-59 and 1964 and as the Dallas-Fort Worth Rangers from 1960-63...
  
  
• Dallas Steers (1958 – 1964) under name Dallas Rangers
  Dallas Rangers
  The Dallas Rangers were a high-level minor league baseball team located in Dallas, Texas, from 1958-64. The team was known by the Dallas Rangers name in 1958-59 and 1964 and as the Dallas-Fort Worth Rangers from 1960-63...
  
  
• Dallas Submarines
• Dallas-Fort Worth Spurs
  Dallas-Fort Worth Spurs
  The Dallas-Fort Worth Spurs were an American minor league baseball team in the Texas League from 1965 to 1971. The team played in Turnpike Stadium in Arlington, Texas....
  
   (1965 - 1971)
• El Paso Dodgers
• El Paso Sun Kings
• Fort Worth Cats (1958 – 1964) under name Dallas Rangers
  Dallas Rangers
  The Dallas Rangers were a high-level minor league baseball team located in Dallas, Texas, from 1958-64. The team was known by the Dallas Rangers name in 1958-59 and 1964 and as the Dallas-Fort Worth Rangers from 1960-63...
  
  
• Fort Worth Panthers (1958 – 1964) under name Dallas Rangers
  Dallas Rangers
  The Dallas Rangers were a high-level minor league baseball team located in Dallas, Texas, from 1958-64. The team was known by the Dallas Rangers name in 1958-59 and 1964 and as the Dallas-Fort Worth Rangers from 1960-63...
  
  
• Galveston Buccaneers
• Galveston Crabs
• Galveston Pirates
• Galveston Sand Crabs
• Houston Buffaloes
  Houston Buffaloes
  The Houston Buffaloes or Buffs were an American minor league baseball team that was founded in 1888, played in the Texas League in the years 1888-90, 1892, 1895-99, and 1907-1958 ; in the South Texas League in the years 1903-06; and in the American Association from 1959-61...
  
   (1907-1958)
• Houston Wanderers
• Longview Cannibals
• Midland Angels (1985-1998) now Midland RockHounds
  Midland RockHounds
  The Midland RockHounds are a minor league baseball team based in Midland, Texas, USA. The team, which plays in the Texas League, is the Double-A affiliate of the Oakland Athletics major league club. The RockHounds play in Citibank Ballpark, located in Midland. Opened in 2002, the stadium seats...
  
  
• Midland Cubs (1972-1984) now Midland RockHounds
  Midland RockHounds
  The Midland RockHounds are a minor league baseball team based in Midland, Texas, USA. The team, which plays in the Texas League, is the Double-A affiliate of the Oakland Athletics major league club. The RockHounds play in Citibank Ballpark, located in Midland. Opened in 2002, the stadium seats...
  
  
• Paris Eisenfelder's Homeseekers
• Paris Parisites
• Rio Grande Valley Giants
  Rio Grande Valley Giants
  The Rio Grande Valley Giants was a minor league baseball franchise in the Double-A Texas League located in Harlingen, Texas, USA, from the beginning of the 1960 season through June 10, 1961...
  
   (1960-1961)
• San Antonio Bears
  San Antonio Bears
  The San Antonio Bears were a minor league baseball team located in San Antonio, Texas. The team played in the Texas League. Their home stadium was League Park.-External links:*...
  
  
• San Antonio Brewers
• San Antonio Bronchos
• San Antonio Bullets
• San Antonio Dodgers (1977-1987) now San Antonio Missions
  San Antonio Missions
  The San Antonio Missions are a minor league baseball team based in San Antonio, Texas. The team, which plays in the Texas League, is the Double-A affiliate of the San Diego Padres major-league club. The Missions play in Nelson W. Wolff Municipal Stadium, located in San Antonio...
  
  
• San Antonio Indians
• Sherman-Denison Students
• Texarkana Casketmakers
• Tyler Sports
• Victoria Rosebuds
  Victoria Rosebuds
  The Victoria Rosebuds were a minor league baseball team in the Double-A Texas League located in Victoria, Texas, between 1958 and May 27, 1961, when the club was transferred to Ardmore, Oklahoma, because of attendance woes. Club owner Tom O'Connor, Jr., a local rancher, suffered a heart attack in...
  
   (1959-1961)
• Victoria Toros
• Waco Cubs
• Waco Navigators
• Waco Steers
• Waco Tigers
• Wichita Falls Spudders
  Wichita Falls Spudders
  The Wichita Falls Spudders were a minor league baseball team that formed in 1920 and played its last game in 1957. They were based in Wichita Falls, Texas....
  
   (1920-1957)
• Wichita Pilots (1989-2007) became Wichita Wranglers
  Wichita Wranglers
  The Wichita Wranglers were a minor league baseball team based in Wichita, Kansas. The team, which played in the Texas League, was the Double-A affiliate of the Kansas City Royals major-league club from 1995 to 2007, and of the San Diego Padres from 1987 to 1994. The Wranglers played in...
  
   in 1989
• Wichita Wranglers (1989-2007)

West Texas-New Mexico League

West Texas-New Mexico League

The West Texas-New Mexico League was a minor league baseball league that operated from 1937 through 1955. The league was not active in 1943-1945 because of World War II...

• Abilene Apaches (1939); became Abilene Blue Sox
  Abilene Blue Sox
  The Abilene Blue Sox were a minor league baseball team that operated in the West Texas-New Mexico League from 1946-1955 and the Big State League from 1956-1957. The Abilene Blue Sox are considered to be in the top 100 Minor League Baseball teams of all-time. They were an affiliate of the Brooklyn...
  
   (1946-1955)

• Amarillo Gold Sox (1939-1942); Amarillo Gold Sox
  Amarillo Gold Sox
  The Amarillo Gold Sox was the name of a minor league baseball franchise that represented the city of Amarillo, Texas, in the Class D West Texas-New Mexico League, the Class A Western League and the Class AA Texas League at various times between 1939 and 1982....
  
   (1946-1955), moved to Western League 1956-1958
• Big Spring Barons 1938-1940; Big Spring Bombers
  Big Spring Bombers
  The Big Spring Bombers were a minor league baseball team located in Big Spring, Texas. They operated for one season, in 1941, in the West Texas-New Mexico League. They were an affiliate of the Brooklyn Dodgers....
  
   (1941); Big Spring Pirates (1942)
• Borger Gassers
  Borger Gassers
  The Borger Gassers were a minor league baseball team that operated in the West Texas-New Mexico League 1937 through 1954 with a break from '43-'45 due to World War II...
  
   (1939-1942), (1946-1954)
• El Paso Texans (1955), moved to Southwestern League
  Southwestern League
  The Southwestern League was the name of three former minor league baseball leagues that operated in the Southwestern United States. The first league, also known as the Oklahoma State League, was in operation for the 1904 season. The second league operated from 1921 to 1926...
  
   1956-1957, moved from Arizona-Texas League
  Arizona-Texas League
  The Arizona-Texas League was a low-level circuit in American minor league baseball that existed from 1928-32, 1937-41, 1947-50 and 1952-54. The Arizona-Texas loop merged with the Sunset League to form the Southwest International League in 1951...
  
   1952-1954

• Lamesa Lobos (1939-1941); Lamesa Dodgers
  Lamesa Dodgers
  The Lamesa Dodgers were a minor league baseball team based in Lamesa, Texas. Formerly known as the Lamesa Lobos they played in the West Texas-New Mexico League in 1942 as an affiliate of the Brooklyn Dodgers....
  
   (1942); Lamesa Lobos (1946-1952)
• Lubbock Hubbers (1938-1942), (1946-1955), moved to Big State League (1956-1958)
• Midland Cardinals (1937-1938); Midland Cowboys (1939-1940)
• Monahans Trojans (1937)
• Odessa Oilers (1937); Odessa Oilers (1940)
• Pampa Oilers (1939-1942), (1946-1955), moved to Southwestern League
  Southwestern League
  The Southwestern League was the name of three former minor league baseball leagues that operated in the Southwestern United States. The first league, also known as the Oklahoma State League, was in operation for the 1904 season. The second league operated from 1921 to 1926...
  
   (1956-1957)
• Plainview Ponies (1953-1955), moved to Southwestern League
  Southwestern League
  The Southwestern League was the name of three former minor league baseball leagues that operated in the Southwestern United States. The first league, also known as the Oklahoma State League, was in operation for the 1904 season. The second league operated from 1921 to 1926...
  
   (1956-1957)
• Wichita Falls Spudders
  Wichita Falls Spudders
  The Wichita Falls Spudders were a minor league baseball team that formed in 1920 and played its last game in 1957. They were based in Wichita Falls, Texas....
  
   (1941-1942)
• Wink Spudders (1937-1938)

American Basketball Association

American Basketball Association

The American Basketball Association was a professional basketball league founded in 1967. The ABA ceased to exist with the ABA–NBA merger in 1976.-League history:...

• Dallas Chaparrals
  Dallas Chaparrals
  The Dallas Chaparrals were a charter member of the American Basketball Association, later becoming the San Antonio Spurs and joining the NBA.The team suffered from poor attendance and general disinterest in Dallas...
  
   (1967-1973), became the San Antonio Spurs
  San Antonio Spurs
  The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional basketball team based in San Antonio, Texas. They are part of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association ....
  
  
• Houston Mavericks
  Houston Mavericks
  The Houston Mavericks were a charter member of the American Basketball Association. They played in the upstart league's first two seasons, from 1967 to 1969. Their home arena was the Sam Houston Coliseum...
  
   (1967-1969)

American Football League

American Football League

The American Football League was a major American Professional Football league that operated from 1960 until 1969, when the established National Football League merged with it. The upstart AFL operated in direct competition with the more established NFL throughout its existence...

-National Football League

National Football League

The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...

• Houston Oilers, ((1960-1996)) became the Tennessee Oilers (1997-1998), then renamed the Tennessee Titans
  Tennessee Titans
  The Tennessee Titans are a professional American football team based in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. They are members of the South Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . Previously known as the Houston Oilers, the team began play in 1960 as a charter...
  
  
• Dallas Texans
  Dallas Texans (NFL)
  The Dallas Texans played in the National Football League for one season, 1952, with a record of 1–11.-History:After the 1951 NFL season, the financially troubled New York Yanks franchise were put on the market. Ted Collins had founded that franchise in 1944 as the Boston Yanks, moved it to New...
  
   (1952)

United States Football League

United States Football League

The United States Football League was an American football league which was in active operation from 1983 to 1987. It played a spring/summer schedule in its first three seasons and a traditional autumn/winter schedule was set to commence before league operations ceased.The USFL was conceived in...

• Houston Gamblers
  Houston Gamblers
  The Houston Gamblers were an American football team that competed in the United States Football League in 1984 and 1985. The Gamblers were coached by veteran NFL head coach Jack Pardee in both their seasons...
  
   (1984-1985)
• San Antonio Gunslingers
  San Antonio Gunslingers
  The San Antonio Gunslingers were a professional American football team based in San Antonio, Texas that played in the USFL in 1984 and 1985. Rick Neuheisel was the team's quarterback and only recognizable name. The team played in Alamo Stadium...
  
   (1984-1985)

World Football League

World Football League

The World Football League was a short-lived gridiron football league that played in 1974 and part of 1975. Although the league's proclaimed ambition was to bring American football onto a worldwide stage, the farthest the WFL reached was placing a team – the Hawaiians – in Honolulu, Hawaii. The...

• San Antonio Wings
  San Antonio Wings
  The San Antonio Wings was an American Football team that played in the World Football League in 1974 and 1975. The team started as the Florida Blazers in 1974, then moved to San Antonio in 1975 and became the San Antonio Wings.-Florida Blazers :...
  
  
• Houston Texans (1974-1975)

Arena Football League

• Dallas Texans
  Dallas Texans (Arena)
  The Dallas Texans was an Arena Football League team that played from 1990 to 1993.-History:The team was based in Dallas, Texas. They played their home games in the Reunion Arena, which they shared with the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association. The team made the ArenaBowl their...
  
   (1990-1993)
• Fort Worth Cavalry
  Fort Worth Cavalry
  The Fort Worth Cavalry were an Arena Football League team which operated for a single season, 1994. The league did not want to abandon the idea of having a franchise in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, a major media market, after the demise of the Dallas Texans , and granted a new franchise to an...
  
   (1994)
• Houston Thunderbears
  Houston Thunderbears
  The Houston ThunderBears were a team in the Arena Football League that operated from 1996-2001. The team was based in Houston, Texas. Home games were played at the Compaq Center. The team was known as the Texas Terror their first two years in existence before changing the name to the Thunderbears...
  
   (1996-2001)
• San Antonio Force
  San Antonio Force
  The San Antonio Force was an Arena Football League team that competed in the 1992 season only. They played their home games at HemisFair Arena, then the home of the San Antonio Spurs...
  
   (1992)
• Texas Terror
  Texas Terror
  Texas Terror may refer to:*Texas Terror - a 1935 western film starring John Wayne*Texas Terror - A franchise in the Arena Football League in the late 1990s....
  
   (1996-1997)

Intense Football League

Intense Football League

The Intense Football League was a professional indoor football league that initially began operations in 2004. Its focus was in Texas, but was notable for being the first professional football league to place a franchise in Alaska.-History:...

• El Paso Rumble
  El Paso Rumble
  The El Paso Rumble were a charter member of the original Intense Football League of 2004. They played at the El Paso County Coliseum in El Paso, Texas. They only played for one year, which was a horrendous 0-16 season....
  
   (2004)
• Laredo Lobos
  Laredo Lobos
  The Laredo Lobos were a professional arena football team based out of Laredo, Texas. They were a member of the af2 league. They played their home games at the Laredo Entertainment Center...
  
   (2006-2007)
• Lubbock Lone Stars (2004-2005)

National Indoor Football League

National Indoor Football League

National Indoor Football League was a professional indoor football league in the United States. For their first six years, the league had teams in markets not covered by either the Arena Football League or its developmental league, af2, however, that changed briefly with their expansion into AFL...

• Fort Worth Sixers (2007)
• Houston Wild Riders
  Houston Wild Riders
  The Houston Wild Riders was a team of the National Indoor Football League scheduled to begin play in 2007. The team disappeared before the final schedule was made....
  
   (2007)
• Lubbock Gunslingers
  Lubbock Gunslingers
  The Lubbock Gunslingers were a professional indoor football team. They played their home games in Lubbock, Texas at Lubbock Municipal Coliseum....
  
   (2004-2005)
• San Antonio Steers
  San Antonio Steers
  The San Antonio Steers were a team of the National Indoor Football League's Pacific South Division. The Steers would finish 2nd in the Pacific South Division, behind the Beaumont Drillers2007 Steers players of note:...
  
   (2007)
• Waco Marshalls (2004)
• Wichita Falls Thunder

American Hockey Association (1926–1942)

American Hockey Association (1926–1942)

The American Hockey Association was a minor professional hockey league that operated between 1926 and 1942. It had previously operated as the Central Hockey League , and before that as part of the United States Amateur Hockey Association. The founding president was Alvin Warren, who also owned the St...

• Dallas Texans (1941-1945)
• Fort Worth Rangers
  Fort Worth Rangers
  The Fort Worth Rangers were a minor pro ice hockey franchise based in Fort Worth, Texas. They played in the American Hockey Association during the 1941-42 season and in the United States Hockey League from 1945-46 through 1948-49...
  
   (1941-1945)

Central Hockey League

Central Hockey League

The Central Hockey League is a mid-level professional hockey league, owned by Global Entertainment Corporation. Its current champions are the Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs, which defeated the Colorado Eagles four games to three in the 2011 playoffs....

• Border City Bandits (Texarkana, Texas
  Texarkana, Texas
  Texarkana is a city in Bowie County, Texas, United States. It effectively functions as one half of a city which crosses a state line — the other half, the city of Texarkana, Arkansas, lies on the other side of State Line Avenue...
  
  ) (2000-2001)
• Dallas Freeze (1992-1995)
• El Paso Buzzards
  El Paso Buzzards
  The El Paso Buzzards were a professional ice hockey team. They were a member of the Central Hockey League. They played their home games at El Paso County Coliseum....
  
   (1996-1998)
• Fort Worth Fire
  Fort Worth Fire
  The Fort Worth Fire were a professional ice hockey team in the Central Hockey League. Their home games were played in the Fort Worth Convention Center Arena. They began operations in 1992 and ceased operations in 1999....
  
   (1992-1999)
• Lubbock Cotton Kings
  Lubbock Cotton Kings
  The Lubbock Cotton Kings are a professional ice hockey team formerly based in Lubbock, Texas. Affiliated with the Central Hockey League, the team played home games in City Bank Coliseum.-History:...
  
   (1999-2007)
• San Antonio Iguanas
  San Antonio Iguanas
  The San Antonio Iguanas were a minor league professional ice hockey team based in San Antonio, Texas. The first expansion team in the Central Hockey League, they were active for seven seasons from 1994–1997 and 1998-2002. Their home arena was the Freeman Coliseum. Bill Goldsworthy initially...
  
   (1994-1997) (1998-2001)

Central Hockey League (1963–1984)

• Amarillo Wranglers
  Amarillo Wranglers
  The Amarillo Wranglers served as a farm team to the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League. The franchise was founded by Jack McGregor who was also the founder of Penguins. McGregor would also serve as the Wranglers' team president. The Wranglers were members of the Central Hockey League...
  
   (1968-1969) (1970-1971)
• Houston Apollos
  Houston Apollos
  The Houston Apollos were a minor professional ice hockey team based in Houston, Texas. They played in the Central Hockey League from 1965 to 1969, and then from 1979 to 1981....
  
   (1965-1969)
• Fort Worth Texans
  Fort Worth Texans
  The Fort Worth Texans were a professional ice hockey team based in Fort Worth, Texas. They started play in 1967 as the Fort Worth Wings, a minor league affiliate for the Detroit Red Wings. They were part of the Central Hockey League and played their home games at Will Rogers Coliseum...
  
   (1974-1982)
• Fort Worth Wings (1967-1974)

United States Hockey League

United States Hockey League

The United States Hockey League is the top junior ice hockey league in the United States. The USHL has 16 member teams located in the Midwestern United States, consisting of players who are 20 years of age and younger...

• Dallas Texans
  Dallas Texans (USHL)
  The Dallas Texans were a professional ice hockey team in Dallas, Texas. They were a member of the United States Hockey League from 1945 to 1949. They played their home games in the Dallas Ice Arena....
  
   (1945-46) (1948-49)
• Fort Worth Rangers
  Fort Worth Rangers
  The Fort Worth Rangers were a minor pro ice hockey franchise based in Fort Worth, Texas. They played in the American Hockey Association during the 1941-42 season and in the United States Hockey League from 1945-46 through 1948-49...
  
   (1945-49)
• Houston Huskies
  Houston Huskies
  The Houston Huskies were a minor league ice hockey team based in Houston, Texas. Formerly known as the Houston Skippers, they were a member of the United States Hockey League, and were active from 1947 to 1949. They were affiliated with the Buffalo Bisons....
  
   (1947-1949)
• Houston Skippers
  Houston Skippers
  The Houston Skippers were a minor league ice hockey team based in Houston, Texas. They were a member of the United States Hockey League, and played for only season, 1946....
  
   (1946-47)

Western Professional Hockey League

Western Professional Hockey League

The Western Professional Hockey League is a defunct minor professional ice hockey league.It operated in the United States from 1996 to 2001, with teams in the southern United States, mainly Texas. The league started with six teams in the 1996-1997 season and grew to 18 teams in 1999-2000...

• Amarillo Rattlers (1996-2001) now Amarillo Gorillas
  Amarillo Gorillas
  The Amarillo Gorillas were a minor league hockey team based in Amarillo, Texas. The team was affiliated with the Central Hockey League. The Gorillas began play in the Western Professional Hockey League in 1996 as the Rattlers, the name they would carry until an ownership change in 2002...
  
  
• Austin Ice Bats
  Austin Ice Bats
  The Austin Ice Bats were a professional minor-league ice hockey team based in Austin, Texas, United States. They played in Austin from 1996 to 2008. Affiliated with the Central Hockey League, the team was named in honor of the Mexican Free-tailed Bats which nest under the Ann W. Richards Congress...
  
   1996-2001
• Central Texas Stampede
  Central Texas Stampede
  The Central Texas Stampede are a defunct minor league professional ice hockey team which was located in Belton, Texas. They played in the Western Professional Hockey League for five seasons, from 1996 to 2001. The team folded during the fifth season of its operation...
  
   (1996-2001)
• El Paso Buzzards
  El Paso Buzzards
  The El Paso Buzzards were a professional ice hockey team. They were a member of the Central Hockey League. They played their home games at El Paso County Coliseum....
  
   (1996-2001)
• Lake Charles Ice Pirates
  Lake Charles Ice Pirates
  The Lake Charles Ice Pirates were an American ice hockey team in Lake Charles, Louisiana. They played in the Western Professional Hockey League from 1997-2001.-Season-by-season record:-Records:*Games Billy Lund 277*Goals John Hanson 121...
  
   (1997-2001)
• Waco Wizards
  Waco Wizards
  The Waco Wizards were an American ice hockey team in Waco, Texas. They played in the Western Professional Hockey League from 1996-2000. They played their home games in the Heart of Texas Coliseum.-Season-by-season record:-Records:*Games Tim Green 145...
  
   (1996-2000)

Continental Indoor Soccer League

Continental Indoor Soccer League

The Continental Indoor Soccer League was an indoor soccer league that played from 1993 to 1997.-History:When the Major Soccer League folded in the summer of 1992, two of its former teams joined a group of hockey and basketball arena owners led by Ron Weinstein who wanted to create a league to...

• Dallas Sidekicks
  Dallas Sidekicks
  The Dallas Sidekicks were one of the longest operating professional soccer teams, either indoor or outdoor, in the United States, based in Dallas, Texas, and operating from 1984 until suspending operations following the 2004 season. The team was founded as a member of the original Major Indoor...
  
   (1983-2004)
• Houston Hotshots
  Houston Hotshots
  The Houston Hotshots were a professional indoor soccer team in Houston, Texas. They played in the Continental Indoor Soccer League from 1994 to 1997, and moved to the World Indoor Soccer League in 1999 after the CISL folded...
  
   (1993-2000)

Lone Star Soccer Alliance

Lone Star Soccer Alliance

Lone Star Soccer Alliance was a soccer league that existed from 1987 to 1992. While the majority of the teams came from Texas, some also came from Oklahoma and Kansas.-History:...

• Austin Thunder
  Austin Thunder
  The Austin Thunder was an American soccer club based in Austin, Texas that was a member of the Lone Star Soccer Alliance.-Year-by-year:...
  
   (1987-92)
• Dallas Inter
  Dallas Inter
  The Dallas Express was an American soccer club based in Dallas, Texas that was a member of the Lone Star Soccer Alliance.The team began its existence as the Dallas Mean Green, a local, unaffiliated team which competed at the amateur level. In 1984, it won the National Amateur Cup. In 1987, The...
  
  (1987-92), as Dallas Express in 1987, as Dallas Mean Green in 1988, as F.C. Dallas in 1989-91)
• Houston Alianza
  Houston Alianza
  Houston Alianza, also known as Allianza Internacional, was an American soccer club based in Houston, Texas that was a member of the Lone Star Soccer Alliance from 1988 to 1991.-History:...
  
   (1988-91)
• Houston Dynamos
  Houston Dynamos
  Houston Dynamos was a U.S. soccer team which existed in various forms from 1983 to 1991. In 1991, the team’s owners changed the name to Houston International, but the team lasted only through the 1992 season before folding.-1984: United Soccer League:...
  
  -Houston International (1987-1991)
• Houston Summit (1978-1980)
• San Antonio Alamo (1987-90, as San Antonio International in 1987-89)
• San Antonio XLR8
  San Antonio XLR8
  The San Antonio XLR8 was an American soccer club based in San Antonio, Texas that was a member of the Lone Star Soccer Alliance.-Year-by-year:...
  
   (1992)
• Wichita Falls Fever
  Wichita Falls Fever
  The Wichita Falls Fever was an American soccer club based in Wichita Falls, Texas that was a member of the Lone Star Soccer Alliance.-Year-by-year:...
  
   (1989-92)

North American Soccer League

North American Soccer League

North American Soccer League was a professional soccer league with teams in the United States and Canada that operated from 1968 to 1984.-History:...

• Dallas Tornado
  Dallas Tornado
  Dallas Tornado were a soccer team based in Dallas that played in the NASL. They played from 1967 to 1981. Their home fields were Cotton Bowl , P.C. Cobb Stadium , Franklin Field , Texas Stadium and Ownby Stadium on the SMU campus...
  
   (1967-1981)
• Houston Stars
  Houston Stars
  The Houston Stars were a soccer team based out of Houston, Texas that played in the United Soccer Association. The league was made up of teams imported from foreign leagues. The Houston club was actually Bangu Atlético Clube from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...
  
   (1968)
• Houston Hurricane
  Houston Hurricane
  The Houston Hurricane was a soccer team based out of Houston that played in the NASL. They played from 1978 to 1980. Their home field was the Astrodome. Their colors were orange, white and red....
  
   (1978-1980)

United Soccer Leagues

United Soccer Leagues

The United Soccer Leagues is the organizer of several soccer leagues with teams in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean. It includes men's and women's leagues, both professional and amateur. Leagues currently organized are the USL Pro, the USL Premier Development League, the W-League, and...

• Amarillo Challengers
  Amarillo Challengers
  The Amarillo Challengers were a soccer club based in Amarillo, Texas that competed in the SISL and USISL.-Year-by-year:...
  
  
• Austin Lightning
  Austin Lightning
  Austin Lightning was an American soccer team, founded in 2002, originally with the name Lafayette Lightning. The team was a member of the United Soccer Leagues Premier Development League , the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, until 2007, when the team left the league and the franchise...
  
   (2002-2007)
• Austin Lone Stars
  Austin Lone Stars
  The Austin Lone Stars were a soccer club that competed in the SISL, USISL and United Soccer Leagues from 1987 to 2000. The club originally started in 1987/88 as the Austin Sockadillos in the original indoor SISL league. They became the Austin Lone Stars in 1994.-History:In 1987, Fernando Marcos...
  
   (1987-2000)
• Dallas Americans
  Dallas Americans
  Dallas Americans was an American soccer club based in Dallas, Texas that was a member of the American Soccer League. It is also the name of a Indoor American Football team.After the ASL folded, the club joined the newly formed United Soccer League....
  
   (1984-85)
• Dallas Lightning
  Dallas Lightning
  The Dallas Lightning were a U.S. soccer club that competed in the United Soccer Leagues W-League from 1993 to 1996. The team folded after the 1996 season....
  
   (1993-1996); originally Tyler Lightning, then Texas Lightning
  Texas Lightning
  Texas Lightning is a German quintet from Hamburg which fits in the country music genre and describes itself as old fashioned and hip. Their music is a mix of country and pop drawing from country classic stars like Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Johnny Cash and Tammy Wynette and pop stars such as ABBA,...
  
  
• Dallas Rockets
  Dallas Rockets
  The Richardson Rockets were a soccer club based in Richardson, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, Texas. The club originally started in the indoor SISL league. They became the North Texas Mid-Cities Flyers for the 1991/92 USISL indoor league and were renamed the Dallas Rockets beginning with the 1992...
  
   (1991-1992)
• El Paso/Juarez Gamecocks (1985)
• Houston Dynamos
  Houston Dynamos
  Houston Dynamos was a U.S. soccer team which existed in various forms from 1983 to 1991. In 1991, the team’s owners changed the name to Houston International, but the team lasted only through the 1992 season before folding.-1984: United Soccer League:...
  
   (1984)
• Houston Express
  Houston Express
  The Houston Express is a cargo ship owned by the Hapag-Lloyd company out of Hamburg, Germany and was completed in 2005. The ship is capable of transporting up to 8400 containers at any one time. The Deadweight Tonnage is 107,000 metric tons and the maximum speed of this ship is . The ship is 332...
  
   (1988-1990)
• Houston Force
  Houston Force
  The Houston Force were an American soccer club. In 1994, the club was originally called the Puerto Rico Islanders, but were force to move by FIFA before playing any games. Landing in Houston, Texas on June 1, the Force only played one game before folding....
  
   (1995)

See also

• List of defunct Florida sports teams
• List of defunct Georgia sports teams
• List of defunct Idaho sports teams
• List of defunct Mississippi sports teams
• List of defunct Ohio sports teams
• List of defunct Pennsylvania sports teams