Editing Hammond, Indiana (section)

==Sports==
Hammond was defeated by the team from [[Taipei]], [[Taiwan]] in the [[1972 Little League World Series]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.littleleague.org/series/history/year/1972.htm|title=Little League World Series|website=littleleague.org|df=mdy-all|access-date=March 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130709233747/http://www.littleleague.org/series/history/year/1972.htm|archive-date=July 9, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>

*Past teams
**[[Hammond Rollers]], an [[American Basketball Association (21st century)|American Basketball Association]] team founded in 2006, was sold to the owner of the [[Quad City Riverhawks]] the same year. The team relocated and became the [[Sauk Valley Rollers]] of [[Rock Falls, Illinois]].
**[[Hammond Ciesar All-Americans]] (1938–41) and [[Hammond Calumet Buccaneers]] (1948–49), were professional basketball teams in the [[National Basketball League (United States)|National Basketball League]]. Baseball Hall of Famer [[Lou Boudreau]] and [[UCLA]] basketball coach [[John Wooden]] both played for the Ciesar All-Americans.

===The Hammond Pros (1920–1924)===
The [[Hammond Pros]] was one of the earliest professional football teams in the United States. When the American Professional Football Association was formed in 1920, the Hammond Pros was a charter member, as it also was when the league changed its name to [[National Football League]] in 1922. However, four years later, when the NFL decided to reduce the number of teams, it did so by simply folding smaller franchises. The Hammond Pros [[traveling team|never played a home game in Hammond]].

During the four years of the Hammond Pros' existence, the NFL had nine African-American players, six of whom played for the Pros. The NFL's first African-American head coach was [[Pro Football Hall of Fame|Hall-of-Famer]] coach [[Fritz Pollard]] of the Pros.