Black and white art prints · A3 & 12 × 18 in
Stories worth passing on,
not just remembering.
We make editorial prints of teams and champions who no longer exist. Each one starts from a true fact, told in a few lines under a single photograph.
True sports stories in black and white · Heavyweight matte paper, 200 gsm · A3 (29.7 × 42 cm) and 12 × 18 in (30.5 × 45.7 cm) · Printed to order, shipped worldwide
From the archive
Sandro Mazzola, 1960-77
Seasons at Inter, from 1960 to 1977, without a single match for another club.
Latest prints
A true fact, given a shape.
Ways in
Nobody comes here looking for a poster.
Erased
Teams and champions removed from the record by politics, mergers or the end of a country.
They Refused
The ones who could have stayed quiet and did not.
The Colour Line
The champions kept out, and what happened when they got in anyway.
Won, Then Lost Everything
The summit, and the long way down that followed it.
Impossible Comebacks
Positions nobody had ever come back from, and the people who did.
Beaten by the Rules
Races and titles decided by a regulation rather than by the sport.
The Machines
Systems and dynasties that made winning look like engineering.
The method
Every print starts from a number that sounds invented. It is not.
- 2-0
- 3:59.4
- 31
- 19
- 37
A final won in an empty stadium. A mile under four minutes. Thirty one lengths at the Belmont. Nineteen wins in a row. We check the fact first, then we make the print.
Latest stories
The story behind the number.
Houston Oilers: The Biggest Lead Ever Lost
The margin at the start of the second half: thirty five to three.
St. Louis Browns: One Pennant, and a Stunt
Seasons in St. Louis, one pennant, no World Series.
New York Giants: Both City Teams Went West
The season both National League clubs in New York played somewhere else.
About Lost Teams
There is a moment almost all of us lived through, and almost nobody photographed.
A father telling you about a match you never saw. A grandfather saying the names like he knew those men personally. Lost Teams begins there. We tell the stories of teams and champions who no longer exist, and what they left behind. Losing with dignity. Keeping your word. Belonging to something larger than yourself. Every print begins with a true fact. Hang it. One day someone will ask you what it is.
What was being handed down
It was never the result.
- Losing with dignity.
- Giving your word and keeping it.
- Staying upright when bending would have been easier.
- Belonging to something larger than yourself.
Those men could not say these things in the abstract, so they told them to us in the shape of a match.
We are not selling nostalgia
We are giving a shape to a story, so it outlasts the person who told it.
Hang it. One day someone will ask you what it is, and you will know where to begin.