Baseball Team Names: A Worldwide Dictionary, 1869-2011 - Softcover

Worth, Richard

9780786468447: Baseball Team Names: A Worldwide Dictionary, 1869-2011

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786468440 ISBN 13: 9780786468447

Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2013

BASEBALL TEAM NAMES, 1869-2011 is a soft cover non-fiction scholarly but also entertaining book about the tremendous numbers of baseball team names, i.e. nicknames, and their origins for every last single professional baseball team from 1869 through the 2011 season no matter what league, league classification or country that these teams have played in or now play in today. The list includes official and unofficial names along with yarns, stories and anecdotes about these names and how teams acquired them.

NEWS FLASH! BASEBALL TEAM NAMES ,A WORLDWIDE DICTIONARY release date will now be March 8, 2013 but that is because the book is being SUPPLIED WITH MORE INFO about year-by-year Major League team names and independent touring baseball teams. Moreover, previously undiscovered historical team names have also been added to the book. Thanks for your patience and your interest in BASEBALL TEAM NAMES, 1869-2011. The book now has nearly SEVEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED team names!

NEWS FLASH! CORRECTIONS BEING MADE! As with any book, a few factual errors may crop up here and there in the text of any publication. Some customers have noted an occasional factual error or two in the book. As a result the author and McFarland & Co. Publishers are actively scouring the digitized text look for any factual, spelling or grammatical error. CORRECTIONS ARE ON-GOING and the book will be error-free by August 20, 2013.

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From the Author:

Hi. I'm Rick Worth, author of BASEBALL TEAM NAMES. I wrote this book so that you, dear reader, could have some fun! Did you know that baseball team nicknames go back to the 1850's with such monikers as Atlantics, Eckfords. Knickerbockers and Athletics? BASEBALL TEAM NAMES, starting with the professional baseball era, covers the names and their origins of every professional baseball team in every league, for every season, in every country from 1869 through the 2012 season. Thank you for your interest in BASEBALL TEAM NAMES.

Every effort has been made to keep FACTUAL and SPELLING / GRAMMATICAL errors to a minimum. McFarland & Co. Publishers and the author are working hard to track down any factual, spelling or grammatical errors. CORRECTION of errors - of which there are less than 20 - is ongoing and will be completed by August 20, 2013.

From the Inside Flap:

BASEBALL TEAM NAMES by Richard Worth
                                             Release Date:  December 31, 2012

                                              TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter
1                  Abbeville Athletics to Ayden Aces
2                  Bakersfield Badgers to Butte Smoke Eaters
3                  Caborca to Cynthiana Merchants
4                  East Chicago Conquistadors to Evergreen Greenies
5                  Fairbury Jeffersons to Fulton Tigers
6                  Gadsen Chiefs to Gwinnett Braves
7                  Hagerstown Blues to Hutchinson Wheat Shockers
8                  Idaho Falls Athletics to Ionia Mayors
9                  Jackson (MS) Generals to Jupiter Hammerheads
10                Kalamazoo Celery Pickers to Kokomo Wildcats
11                LaBorca to Lynn Tigers
12                Macon Braves to Myrtle Beach Pelicans
13                Nashua Angels to Nyack Rocklands
14                Oak Ridge Bombers to Ozark Eagles
15                Pacific Suns to Pulaski Rangers
16                Quebec Alouettes to Quintana Roo Lobstermen
17                Racine Belles to Rutland Sheiks
18                Sacramento Baby Senators to Syracuse Sky Chiefs
19                Tacoma Cubs to Tyler Wildcatters
20                Union City Dodgers to Utica Utes
21                Valdosta Browns to Visalia White Sox
22                Waco Babies to Wytheville Twins
23                Yakima Bears to Yuma Sun Sox
24                Zacatecas Pericos to Zion Pioneerzz
Apx I           Baseball Clubs by Team Name
Apx II         Year-by-Year Major League Baseball Team Names, 1871-1900
Apx III        Year-by-Year Major League Baseball Team Names, 1901-2011

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