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Detroit Caesars
The Detroit Caesars were a professional softball team that began play in the American Professional Slow Pitch Softball League (APSPL) in 1977, the first of three Men's Professional Softball Leagues.
==History==
Prior to formalized professional play, Detroit was a hotbed for softball, with some of the top players in the country playing in competitive local leagues and for national softball championships. A major sponsor of softball in the Detroit area was Little Caesar's Pizza, whose team had won the 1970 Amateur Softball Association national title. The company was founded and owned by Mike Ilitch, a former Detroit Tigers farmhand and current owner of the MLB team. The Caesars were his first step into professional sports ownership.
The APSPL was formed by former World Football League front office staff Bill Byrne with former New York Yankees player Whitey Ford as commissioner and Detroit was the last team to join the newly formed league. The Caesars played at Memorial Field in Eastpointe, Michigan (named East Detroit at that time) a small suburb of Detroit. With promotions tied in with the pizza chain and the signing of two former Detroit Tiger stars, Jim Northrup and Norm Cash, fans packed into the small stands to lead the league in attendance and to witness not only Detroit's best softball players, but those that Ilitch had brought to town to make his team into the powerhouse of professional softball. Mike Nye, Ron Ford, Bert Smith, Mike Gouin and Tex Collins (all five had received amateur softball Player of the Year honors from Southern Softball magazine) and other softball stars took to the field for Detroit, led by manager Gary Vitto, and the Caesars would go on to win two World Series titles before disbanding after the 1979 season.
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