Baseball Team Names: A Worldwide Dictionary, 1869-2011 Paperback - 2013
by Richard Worth
From the jacket flap
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.
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- Title Baseball Team Names: A Worldwide Dictionary, 1869-2011
- Author Richard Worth
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher McFarland & Company
- Date 2013
- ISBN 9780786468447 / 0786468440
- Weight 2.09 lbs (0.95 kg)
- Dimensions 10.93 x 8.48 x 0.98 in (27.76 x 21.54 x 2.49 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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- Aspects (Academic): Reference
- Library of Congress subjects Baseball players - United States, Baseball teams - United States - Names
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012043795
- Dewey Decimal Code 796.357
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