Baltimore Blast
in the MISL archive.
The most-cited club in the archive, from the 2002-03 title run to the last league.
MISL.net / Clubs / Baltimore Blast
No club appears in this archive more often than the Baltimore Blast. Twenty-five of the fifty surviving MISL.net reports name them, and the club is mentioned 102 times across the recovered corpus — more than any other name in the collection. The reports run from 11 November 2002 to 18 October 2010, which is very nearly the full span of what survived: the Blast are one of only four clubs here whose coverage crosses from the revival era into the last league.
The archive catches them at their strongest. The report of 12 April 2004 records a 6-2 win over the Milwaukee Wave in Game 3 of the championship series, the league's own account of a second consecutive title. Two seasons later the Hector Marinaro Trophy went to a Blast forward: Adauto Neto was voted Most Valuable Player for 2005-06, the club's only individual honour among the fourteen the archive preserves.
The club took the fewest players of any side in the 2005 dispersal draft — five, against Cleveland's twelve — but picked with the top of the board, taking Nevio Pizzolitto at six and the goalkeeper Victor Nogueira at twenty. Four of the five came from San Diego and one from Monterrey.
Some of the club's longer history sits outside this archive but inside the site. The Blast were founded in 1980, folded with the first MISL in 1992 and were reborn the same year as the Baltimore Spirit; seven championships followed, the first in the 1983-84 MISL Eastern season and the most recent in 2012-13. The archive itself holds none of that directly — it begins in 2002 — which is worth saying plainly rather than implying a completeness the recovered files do not have.
League honours in the archive
Each name links to the league report that announced it. Award titles and club names are given exactly as the MISL worded them.
| Season | Award | Winner |
|---|---|---|
| 2005-06 | Most Valuable Player | Adauto Neto |
The 2005 dispersal draft
Baltimore Blast took 5 of the 59 players moved on 5 January 2005. Pick numbers are the overall order across all twelve rounds. The whole draft, club by club.
Baltimore Blast5
- 6Nevio Pizzolittofrom San Diego Sockers
- 13Mauricio Alegrefrom San Diego Sockers
- 20Victor Nogueirafrom San Diego Sockers
- 27Alejandro Morenofrom Monterrey La Raza
- 34Brad Flanaganfrom San Diego Sockers
Reports naming Baltimore Blast
25 of the 50 recovered reports name this club, filed between 2002 and 2010 — 7 in the last league, 18 in the revival. Every one is served verbatim as it was recovered. Nothing is reconstructed.
Elsewhere on MISL.net
The archive index lists all 50 recovered reports by year. The records page holds every league honour and the complete 2005 dispersal draft; the players record sets the draft out club by club. The fixture list preserves the 2010-11 season, and the three eras explains how one league name covered three separate competitions between 1978 and 2014.
About Baltimore Blast in this archive
How many MISL.net reports mention the Baltimore Blast?
Twenty-five of the fifty recovered reports name the club, and the corpus carries 102 separate Blast mentions. That is the highest count of any club in the archive.
Which MISL award did a Baltimore Blast player win?
Adauto Neto was voted Most Valuable Player for the 2005-06 season and received the Hector Marinaro Trophy. It is the club's only individual honour among the fourteen awards the archive preserves.
How many players did the Blast take in the 2005 dispersal draft?
Five — the smallest haul of the seven clubs taking part. Four came from the San Diego Sockers and one from Monterrey La Raza.
What period of Blast history does this archive cover?
From November 2002 to October 2010. The club's earlier history, including its 1980 founding and the first MISL titles, is not represented in the recovered reports.
Where can I read the Blast championship report?
The league's account of the 6-2 win over Milwaukee in Game 3 of the 2004 championship series is preserved verbatim in the archive, along with every other surviving report that names the club.