Can You Name That Team?: A Guide to Professional Baseball, Football, Soccer, Hockey, and Basketball Teams and Leagues

Now in Paper! The only single source collection of over 950 teams in 36 major professional leagues_baseball, football, soccer, basketball, and hockey_this book also contains the first genealogy ever compiled on all these leagues, giving each team franchise and its past and present names. Section 1 is an alphabetical listing by the designation (city, state, province, or region) used by the team. This main entry section explains how the team got its name. Section 2_the 'family tree'_contains a separate listing of the teams in each of the 36 leagues, who they were, and who they became. Section 3 is an alphabetical listing of all the team names in Sections 1 and 2. With bibliography and index.

David Biesel began his love affair with sportswriting in Washington, DC and in the Marine Corps. He has been in reference book publishing for over 25 years and worked on the Baseball Encyclopedia and other sports books while at Macmillan Publishing. He is a member of the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR) and the Professional Football Researchers Association.