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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
[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]
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.
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.
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.
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