The first Purefoods vs Alaska finals series in 1990

Purefoods Hotdogs wins their first PBA championship in the 1990 Third Conference.

Alaska was up, 2-0, in the best of five title series and a win away from their first PBA title, but the Hotdogs came back to win the final three games as Purefoods coach Baby Dalupan duplicate the same feat he first did back in 1976 with the Crispa Redmanizers.

New team U-Tex Merchants in 1961

BAA champions Yutivo (1960) & Kai Ming (1961)

Yutivo wins the 1960 Businessmen Athletic Association (BAA) crown at the expense of U-Tex Spinners.

Kai Ming Press wins the BAA crown in the following year as U/tex finished runner-up again. 

1977 MICAA team photos / lineups

CFC, Crown and Crispa

ITM and 7-Up

1989 PABL season opening

Six of the ten participating teams, including guest team El Rancho of Cebu and the fabled Crispa Redmanizers, returning to the basketball scene.

PBA All-Star photos during the 70s

1975

Trust vs Most, 1977 

Don vs Winston, 1979

*c/o PBA Archives' facebook account.

Pre-PBA days

Mariwasa-Honda's Cisco Oliver and Crispa's Abet Guidaben. MICAA action in 1974.

Yoyong Martirez of San Miguel and Francis Arnaiz of Toyota in 1974 MICAA. The San Miguel Beermen would use this retro jersey 30 years later in the opening game of the 2004-05 PBA season.

The Concepcion Motorolas defeated the YCO Painters in a playoff for the right to face the Toyota Comets in the 1973 MICAA finals.