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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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".
The colors represent a much more Arizona look, Sedona red pulled from the Red Rock State Park in Sedona, the Sonoran tan reminiscent of Sonoran sand and the desert landscape and black to accent it.
From the International League's foundation in 1912, many of its teams relocated, changed names, transferred to different leagues, or ceased operations altogether. For the 2021 season, the league operated as the Triple-A East before switching back to its previous moniker in 2022.
The team's legal name was the Brooklyn Base Ball Club. [16] The "Trolley Dodgers" nickname was used throughout this period, along with other nicknames, by fans and sports writers of the day. The team did not use the name in a formal sense until 1916, when the name was printed on home World Series programs.
Back when the team decided to change its "Indians" mascot, a lot of fans were furious, blaming it on political correctness, though Native Americans and others had been complaining about it for ...