 Steinbrenner got his start in professional sports ownership with the Pipers, which he entered into the new ABL.The team's precarious financial situation was such that its home games took place in eight different arenas and gyms.These ranged from the team's primary home at either Cleveland Public Hall or the Cleveland Arena to local colleges such as Baldwin-Wallace College, to high school facilities in Ashtabula, Lorain and Sandusky, and as far south as Columbus.