Forgotten Franchises: California Golden Seals

Historically Speaking Sports

In the fall of 1967, the National Hockey League underwent major expansion, doubling the size of the league from its original six to 12 teams which included teams on the west coast of the United States.

One of the teams that brought the NHL to the Pacific coast was the California Golden Seals along with the Los Angeles Kings. The Seals were hockey's representative in the San Francisco Bay area although they played mostly in the East Bay in Oakland.

In this episode of the podcast, host Dana Auguster highlights the Seals short stay in both the bay area and the NHL itself as they became the last team in a major sports league here in North America to fold.

Later in the show, we will examine MLB's decision to add the statistics from players from the Negro Leagues into the official record books of professional baseball. With the edition of players such as Josh Gibson, Oscar Charleston and Satchel Paige, many of the record holders of certain statistics have now changed.

To wrap up the show, we will send a heartfelt and solemn shout out two two hall of fame athletes that we had lost leading up to this episode.

The first is Hall of Fame center for the Oakland Raiders Jim Otto and the second, another all-time center, this time in basketball, Bill Walton.

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