Baseball Team Names

A Worldwide Dictionary, 1869-2011

Richard Worth (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

416 Seiten

2013
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-6844-7 (ISBN)

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Professional baseball is full of arcane team names. The Los Angeles Dodgers, for instance, owe their nickname to the trolley tracks that honeycombed Brooklyn in the early 1880s. (Residents were "trolley dodgers.") From the Negro Leagues, there were the Pittsburgh Crawfords (sponsored early by the Crawford Bath House and Recreation Center); from the minors, the Tucson Waddies (slang for cowboy) and, later, the Montgomery Biscuits (for the would-be concessions staple); from overseas, the Adelaide, Australia, Bite (a shark reference but also a pun for bight) and the Bussum, Netherlands, Mr. Cocker HCAW (the sponsoring restaurant chain, followed by the acronym for the official team name, Honkbalclub Allan Weerbaar).

This comprehensive reference book explains the nicknames of thousands of major and minor league franchises, Negro League and early independent black clubs, and international teams--from 1869 through 2011.

Writer Richard Worth lives in Melrose Park, Illinois.

Table of Contents

Introduction

How to Read the Entries

Abbreviations and Initialisms

Team Names

Appendix I: Barnstorming and League-Afﬁliated Road Teams

Appendix II: Major League Team Nicknames

Year-by-Year, 1871–1900

Appendix III: Major League Team Nicknames

Year-by-Year, 1901 to Date

Bibliography

Index

Zusatzinfo	appendices, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 279 mm
Gewicht	948 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-7864-6844-0 / 0786468440
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-6844-7 / 9780786468447
Zustand	Neuware