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See also Team names and colors. Athletic teams have long used colors and nicknames as a form of team identity. This echoes the use of colors and nicknames in other activities such as heraldry, the military, and the flags of states, provinces and nations. Baseball teams started using nicknames early in the sport's history, though not all felt ...
The Black and White – Reference to the team's colors [citation needed] The Hitless Wonders – Refers to the 1906 team that won the AL pennant and World Series despite a .230 team batting average. The Black Sox [15] – Reference to the infamous 1919 team, which fixed the World Series and is popularly known as the "Black Sox Scandal".
This timeline includes all franchises (including non-defunct franchises) that played in the AL or NL after 1891; it also shows the eleven historical leagues during the period in which each is considered a major league by Major League Baseball. Only major and recent name changes are marked in blue. Franchise moves are marked in black.
The Arizona Diamondbacks are set to play in the World Series for the first time in 22 years, but the team's colors are far different from what they used to be.
The team changed its name to the Charleston Alley Cats in 1995 and switched colors from blue and green to red and black. The team was purchased in 2001 by Tom Dickson and Sherrie Myers. In 1998 , the team changed affiliation to the Kansas City Royals , again in 2000 to the Toronto Blue Jays , to the Milwaukee Brewers after the 2004 season ...
After the resumption of the Japanese Baseball League in 1946 (after World War II), the team changed its name to Pacific Baseball Club (popularly known as Taihei — "peace"). [ citation needed ] Meanwhile, team owner Komajiro Tamura started another franchise that season, Gold Star , which signed many of Asahi's former players, as well as Asahi ...
Note: Team names are given here according to the convention used by The Baseball Encyclopedia, which regularized them into the familiar form of modern team names. However, most teams in the early period had no name, aside from that of the club (as in "Hartford Base Ball Club" or "Athletic Base Ball Club of Philadelphia"), and nicknames like ...
Insolvent like his team, Fuchs was forced to give up control of the Braves in August 1935, [10] and new owner Bob Quinn tried to change the team's image by renaming it the Boston Bees. [11] This did little to change the team's fortunes. After five uneven years, a new owner, construction magnate Lou Perini, changed the nickname back to the Braves.