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Minor league baseball has a history of unconventional team names, ranging from inanimate objects to mythical creatures. Here are the best ones.
The minor leagues listed below also include teams outside the United States, with seven in Canada (one in the NBA G League and six in the American Hockey League) and one in Mexico (NBA G League). Triple-A minor league baseball has two leagues, the International League and Pacific Coast League, both affiliated with Major League Baseball.
Halfway through the season, the league gave up on the Minneapolis market and the Millerettes became a traveling team playing all games on the road, earning another nickname, the "Orphans". The team was managed by Claude "Bubber" Jonnard, although the manager has often been incorrectly identified as Claude's brother Clarence Bubber Jonnard ,.
There are 14 Minor League Baseball (MiLB) leagues and 206 teams in operation across the United States, Dominican Republic, and Canada, which are affiliated with Major League Baseball (MLB) teams. They are organized by one of five classes (from highest to lowest): Triple-A, Double-A, High-A, Single-A, and Rookie. Of these, 120 teams in 11 ...
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The Rancho Cucamonga Quakes, a Dodgers minor league team, chose "Chaquetas" as an alternate name, then learned of the word's slang meaning.
The team was organized into the Double-A Northeast. [7] In 2022, the Double-A Northeast became known as the Eastern League, the name historically used by the regional circuit prior to the 2021 reorganization. [8] On April 26, 2024, the Rumble Ponies' owners entered into an agreement to sell the team to Diamond Baseball Holdings. [9]
Later the city's minor league clubs adopted the St. Paul Saints nickname, a self-contained redundancy. The Western League club from the 1890s moved to Chicago in 1900 and became the Chicago White Sox. The revived minor league Saints joined their cross-river rivals in the American Association for much of the first half of the 1900s. The Saints ...