Not every former professional sports league has managed to live on today.  In fact, the vast majority of pro sports leagues never lasted too long.

However, that doesn't mean they didn't have a lasting impact on professional sports.  In fact, some of the greatest innovations and rule changes in modern pro sports resulted from experiments in these long-forgotten leagues.  These five in particular had a long-lasting i...

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