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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".
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 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.
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.
See details in History of baseball team nicknames). The American League club's owner, Charles Taylor, changed his team's name to the Red Sox in place of the "Americans". When George and John Dovey acquired the club in 1907, the team was named the Doves; when purchased by William Hepburn Russell in 1911 reporters tried out Rustlers.
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 ...
During 1954, the Reds changed their name to the Redlegs in response to the Second Red Scare and the height of the Communism movement. The name change never really caught on, and was reversed prior to the 1959 season. In 1956, led by National League Rookie of the Year Frank Robinson, the Reds hit 221 HR to tie the NL record. The 1957 season ...