[13] The Auto Kings, who also played at Memorial Field in East Detroit advanced to the NASL World Series but lost 5-2 to the Milwaukee Schlitz.
[14] Many of the elite Detroit area softball players went to the Snyder's-Stroh's team the National Slo-Pitch Conference (NSPC), an amateur softball competition that was drawing significant team sponsorship and talent from the professional game.
Detroit-based Snyder's-Stroh's featured former Detroit Caesars Rick Trudeau, Gary Geister, Chuck Drewicz and local stand-out Braxton Speller, and finished 3rd behind Cleveland and NSPC champion Howard's Western Steer out of North Carolina in the 1981 NSPC.
[21] In 1982, former Detroit Caesars executive, former NASL Commissioner and 1981 NSPC Commissioner Robert Brown put together a Stepien funded team yet again in the Motor City, Detroit Softball City, who played in the UPSL in 1982.
[22] The team was led by Charlie Mitchell and Braxton Speller, along with former Caesars Rick Trudeau, Doug Gerdes, Chuck Drewicz, George Birch, Gary Geister and manager Gary Vitto, along with former Auto Kings Matt Partridge and Mike Turk.