# Records of fictional sports teams **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 9, 2005, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/records-of-fictional-sports-teams/298596 "2005-04-09T22:55:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/records-of-fictional-sports-teams/298596/21 "2005-04-11T13:43:39Z")
The Pittsburgh Pirates in the _real_ “Angels in the Outfield”, with Natalie Wood as the cute little orphan girl who prays for a real Mommy and Daddy and for the Pirates to win the pennant, were nevertheless a real team. Their winning was fake, though. Buck Bokai was Sisko’s fave player in DS9 - he shows his original card to Jake before a pitch-and-catch session in the holodeck. The Toledo Mudhens are still ver much in business, as the Detroit Tigers top farm club in the International League. The St. Louis Wolves in Abbott and Costello’s “Who’s On First” routine. The Houston Team (no other name) in the _real_ “Rollerball” - they played Madrid, New York, and Tokyo IIRC. The Milwaukee Beers, Las Vegas Strippers, and Dallas Felons in “Baseketball”. And don’t forget the Albuquerque Isotopes, even though the Springfield team didn’t actually move there. The Springfield Atoms football team only appeared in 1 episode, but they have a banner hanging in Moe’s. ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/records-of-fictional-sports-teams/298596/22 "2005-04-11T13:52:32Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Would that be the one that supposedly starred Danny Glover or the one that supposedly starred Paul Douglas and Janet Leigh? The one that supposedly starred Danny Glover. I didn’t realize there were two… ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/records-of-fictional-sports-teams/298596/23 "2005-04-11T15:27:59Z")
**JasonG** – you need to meet this guy: [http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/simmons/index](http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/simmons/index) He not only thinks about those things, he comes up with box-score lines for fictional characters in movies, such as Jimmy Chitwood’s shooting numbers in the final game in _Hoosiers_. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/records-of-fictional-sports-teams/298596/24 "2005-04-11T15:36:58Z")
My fave of those was his answer to the reader question “What was Danny Noonan’s score on the back 9 at Bushwood after he took over from Al Czervik?” ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/records-of-fictional-sports-teams/298596/25 "2005-04-11T15:47:09Z")
Not that I know the record, but there were the L.A. Stallions in “The Last Boy Scout.” ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/records-of-fictional-sports-teams/298596/26 "2005-04-11T15:48:22Z")
In “The Longest Yard”, the Mean Machine went 1-0 ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/records-of-fictional-sports-teams/298596/27 "2005-04-11T16:02:19Z")
John Hughes High WASPs, _Not Another Teen Movie_ Springfield Isotopes, _The Simpsons_. Shelbyville has a team, too, and Bart and Lisa joined a pee-wee football team at one point, I believe- Homer coached and cut everyone. Darlene Connor played baseball on _Roseanne_. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/records-of-fictional-sports-teams/298596/28 "2005-04-11T16:11:36Z")
Interesting thread. For “Major League”. Back then you had two divisions per league. Cleveland was in the AL East back then, so the win total would have to be higher than 90 wins (though there was one year in the late 80s where a team won the East with 88 wins and twice teams won with 89 wins in the 1980s), though probably closer to 95-100 wins. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/records-of-fictional-sports-teams/298596/29 "2005-04-11T16:28:53Z")
And who could forget the Lake Wobegone Whippets? Maybe it was too quiet a week. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/records-of-fictional-sports-teams/298596/30 "2005-04-11T17:08:36Z")
> [@JasonG](#): > > Thanks, **Ranchoth** , I knew I wasn’t crazy! Although this post might refute that… > > Any stats or records of fictional teams, people? Or has this post become “Hey, was that a real team?” Sometimes SDMB OP’s remind me of the poem “I shot an arrow in the air…” \*I shot an arrow in the air It fell to earth I know just where. For though I aimed at a target far I pierced the radiator of my car. \* Simply amazing the trivia that sticks with you from grade school, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![JerH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@JerH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerH)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/records-of-fictional-sports-teams/298596/31 "2005-04-11T20:28:37Z")
> [@Troy McClure SF](#): > > Springfield Isotopes, _The Simpsons_. > Shelbyville has a team, too… IIRC, they’re called the Shelbyville Shelbyvilleans. And don’t forget Homer’s nuclear plant softball team. ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/records-of-fictional-sports-teams/298596/32 "2005-04-11T20:57:02Z")
There are, of course, the Average Joes (2004 ADAA Champions!) and Globogym dodgeball teams, along with a score of others… For _records_, though, my favorite is Josh Exley of the Roswell Grays hitting 61 home runs in the 1947 season. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/records-of-fictional-sports-teams/298596/33 "2005-04-11T21:27:01Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > And don’t forget the Albuquerque Isotopes, even though the Springfield team didn’t actually move there. In a case of life imitating art when Albuquerque minor league baseball team (formerly known as the “Dukes”) was looking for a new name they decided to rename themselves the Isotopes. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/records-of-fictional-sports-teams/298596/34 "2005-04-11T22:33:51Z")
The Hickory Huskers went 28-2 to win the Indiana State Final. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/records-of-fictional-sports-teams/298596/35 "2005-04-11T23:51:01Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > For “Major League”. Back then you had two divisions per league. Cleveland was in the AL East back then, so the win total would have to be higher than 90 wins (though there was one year in the late 80s where a team won the East with 88 wins and twice teams won with 89 wins in the 1980s), though probably closer to 95-100 wins. [OT]Actually, there were teams that won with even less than 88 wins. The best example was the 1973 New York Mets who won the National League East (and later advanced to the World Series) with only 82 wins.[/OT] ---
**Author:** ![Dignan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@Dignan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dignan)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/records-of-fictional-sports-teams/298596/36 "2005-04-12T04:19:40Z")
No mention of the New York Knights from _The Natural_? You people are slipping. I haven’t seen it in a while, but if memory serves, don’t they win the championship on Hobbs’ smashing (heh) homer? ---
**Author:** ![JasonG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@JasonG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JasonG)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/records-of-fictional-sports-teams/298596/37 "2005-04-12T05:14:13Z")
All right. I’ll start. The Miami Sharks of _Any Given Sunday_ **SPOILER ALERT** When they begin their first game of the film – a home game against the Minnesota Americans, they are 7-5 and have lost three in a row. Unfortunately, they lose to Minnesota, 37-34, and fall to 7-6. They then play Chicago at home, winning 23-17. They play at the California Crusaders and win 24-21. They lose a home game in the rain to the New York Emperors, 32-7, sending them to Dallas for the first round of playoffs. (season record: 9-7) They beat the Dallas Knights 37-35, sending them to Minnesota for the next round. They lose there, 32-13. ``` A record for a fictional sports team. That's how it's done. ``` ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/records-of-fictional-sports-teams/298596/38 "2005-04-12T05:34:17Z")
> [@Dignan](#): > > No mention of the New York Knights from _The Natural_? You people are slipping. > > I haven’t seen it in a while, but if memory serves, don’t they win the championship on Hobbs’ smashing (heh) homer? The Knights won the National League on Hobbs’ home run. As the deal between the Judge and Pops Fisher depended only on the team winning the pennant (the League), the World Series was unimportant. (They probably got killed by the Yanks with Hobbs on the DL, anyhow. 😉 ). No guess as to what Knights record might have been, but they were quite the streaky team…both of the losing and winning varieties. ---
**Author:** ![Trillionaire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Trillionaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trillionaire)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/records-of-fictional-sports-teams/298596/39 "2005-04-12T06:38:22Z")
> [@JerH](#): > > IIRC, they’re called the Shelbyville Shelbyvilleans. And don’t forget Homer’s nuclear plant softball team. Both towns have football teams too, and in head to head matchups the Shelbyville team wins “nearly half the time.” ---
**Author:** ![Big\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e4f/32.png) [@Big\_G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_G)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/records-of-fictional-sports-teams/298596/40 "2005-04-12T15:35:15Z")
There’s the South Park Elementary School Dodgeball team. I can’t remember if they were undefeated or if they lost thier first game. And as I typed this, I remembered the South Park E.S. Football team, though its been so long since I’ve seen that episode I can’t come up with any more details. Except of course George Clooney’s exceptional voice work. -G [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/records-of-fictional-sports-teams/298596.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/records-of-fictional-sports-teams/298596.md?page=3)