Wrestler Randy "Macho Man" Savage: The Baseball Years
Randy “Macho Man” Savage was one of the most famous wrestlers to come out of that sport’s Golden Age in the 1980s. Wrestling, though, wasn’t his first professional sports experience. Prior to becom...
The Cincinnati Rockers Arena Football League Team
The Arena Football League (AFL) was founded in 1987 and by the early ‘90s had grown from four to 12 teams. Franchises were awarded to all manner of business people who saw the opportunity to become...
The 1948 City Plan For Cincinnati: Ballparks, Airports, Heliports, and more!
Post-World War II America was a place of boundless optimism and tremendous economic growth. One thing that illustrates that, quite literally, is the 1948 City Plan for Cincinnati. Comprised of 17 c...
Australia's Wonderland, Kings Island’s Long-Lost Sister Park
For 19 years, starting in 1985, Kings Island had a sister park Down Under. Originally called Australia’s Wonderland, the park opened on December 7, 1985, as the sixth member of the Kings Entertainm...
Old Coney Island, Pre- and Post-Kings Island
After World War II, Cincinnati’s Coney Island became somewhat of a regional destination as evidenced by the brochure above issued by a Cleveland group called the Rainbow Girls in 1953. Not too diss...
Cincinnati's Other Pro Football Teams
Big-time professional football arrived in Cincinnati in 1968 with the debut of the American Football League’s last expansion team, the Bengals. However, Cincinnati had hosted several other football...
