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Honorable mention by USBL (2005): Chris Childs - Spent two years with the Miami Tropics and then a long NBA career. Norris Coleman - Second All-Time leading scorer in the USBL. Lloyd Daniels - "Sweet Pea" first showed the world his talents in the USBL. Richard Dumas - Proved that his troubles were behind him with the 1992 Miami Tropics.
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The United Shore Professional Baseball League (USPBL) is an independent baseball league in suburban Metro Detroit, Michigan, United States, started in May 2016. [1] Each team in the USPBL plays a 45-game regular season schedule from May through September, with a mid-season all-star game and a championship game at the conclusion of the regular season. [2]
In the USBL's only year, the Senators finished fifth place at 6-7, playing the fewest games of any team. The first game they played was on May 1, against Richmond, a 2-0 loss before 9,000 fans. [3] It is one of the few known results of any of the USBL teams. Washington finished 6—7 and 5th in the league.
In March 1912, organizers of the proposed league – described by members of the sports establishment as an "outlaw league" – met in New York's Hotel Imperial. [1] The U.S. Baseball League subsequently organized teams in Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, New York, Reading, Pennsylvania; Richmond, Virginia; and Washington, D.C. [2] The league president was William Witmann.
Former McDonald's All-American and Syracuse guard Michael Lloyd won the USBL Rookie of the Year award, and three players were named to all-league teams (Greg Grant to the All-USBL First Team and Mark Strickland and Ron Anderson to the Second Team). [4] In April 1997 the Seagulls signed R&B singer R. Kelly to a professional basketball contract. [5]
The Gulls folded at the end of the 1985 season, but a new team in Rhode Island joined the USBL in 1987. In the USBL draft, the Gulls drafted 5-foot-3 Muggsy Bogues second overall. Bogues was named the league's Rookie of the Year, averaging 22.2 points and 8.4 assists per game and leading the league in minutes per game before an ankle injury ...
However later that year, after encountering financial difficulties, the team folded and was replaced by the Albany Patroons. The ValleyDawgs won the USBL championship in 2004. [3] In 2003, the team won the USBL's Eastern Division Finals but lost in the USBL Championship Series. [4]