Baseball Team Names: A Worldwide Dictionary, 1869-2011 by Richard Worth

Baseball Team Names: A Worldwide Dictionary, 1869-2011

Richard Worth

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nonfiction history reference sports informative medium-paced
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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 wer...

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