Baseball Team Names : a Worldwide Dictionary, 1869-2011.

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 (spo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Worth, Richard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jefferson : McFarland & Co., Publishers, 2013.
Temas:
Baseball teams > United States > Names > Dictionaries.
Baseball players > United States > Terminology.
Joueurs de base-ball > États-Unis > Terminologie.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Baseball > Statistics.
Baseball players
United States
Dictionaries
Terminology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; 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.

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