Kansas City Monarchs Crown Logo illustrations An injunction kept them from

An injunction kept them from using the nickname of the city's previous team and after a legal battle the big league agreed to let them use the name Stallions

The team was sold in 1973 and while it stayed in Atlanta

The facility also was home to the city's basketball team from 1997 to 1999

1946 and was demolished in 1951

The Thrashers were Atlanta's major league hockey team from 1999 until 2011 when they moved to become the new incarnation of that city's previous team

Kansas City Monarchs Crown Logo illustrations An injunction kept them fromThe Kansas City Monarchs are probably the most famous Negro league team of all time and were certainly the longest lasting. Even after the color barrier had been broken in Major League Baseball by Jackie Robinson (a former Monarch), the team continued on, barnstorming across America four years beyond the demise of the last Negro league in 1962. *Design is officially licensed from the Negro League Baseball Museum