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They actually first played at the Polo Grounds.

The flag of New York City is also blue, white, and orange -- colors the Islanders also use.

And the pinstripes on the Mets home jerseys were to honor the Yankees.

I’m more surprised that a city has a flag? I know some have logos and seals but didn’t know they could have flags

@@oddballskull1941 Yeah, many cities do. I don't know how often they're seen flying in many cases, but they do exist.

Always thought Anaheim and LA were like neighbors. Like if the Anaheim Ducks are whooping ass LA residents dont root for them? Are they that fat from each other?

The angels haven’t changed that much they are just Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

@@angelsanddodgersfan3589 i just watched a vid on how all teams got their names. They dropped the OF ANAHEIM a few yrs back. That seems fair cuz NY has Mets and Yankees. Chicago has White Sox and Cubs. 3 largest cities in USA. Houston the 4th largest city don't deserve anymore baseball teams. 😂

There was Angels baseball and Angels fans in Los Angeles well before Anaheim. The teams roots are in Los Angeles, it's in the name ffs...

@@angelsanddodgersfan3589 well they were the walt disney angels at one time. Their uniforms have changed about 5 or 6 times as well. Born and raised in the OC but a life long Dodger Fan. I remember going to Angels games in little league and games were so boring. But when I went to my first Dodgers game it was lively and a fun atmosphere. But I did love going to anaheim stadium because we could get $5 tickets just before game time and could sit behind home plate on the ground level.

Actually the Bears began play in Decatur Illinois and were called the Stayles (I don't remember how to spell it) then moved to Chicago and kept the name for one year.

And Bears are bigger than Cubs like football players are larger than baseball players.

@Don1103 Wow, you found one guy.

Also Halas went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, whose colors are Navy Blue and Orange. He basically combined parts of the Cubs and U. of I. identities

@@FAITHandLOGIC bonds would like a word

Definitely! Pretty wild!

Kansas City Royals haven't moved either

@@stephen_cs You're right -- forgot to include them in the list above.

The Padres was founded in 1969 so it’s not that new

@@mosquitonstuff Oh, I agree. That's why I used quotes when I typed "newer." Still, the Tigers are more than twice as old as the Padres.

Dakota Thomas...Well-played, a lot better played than the Orioles😀

@@dgtwo3724 Os baseball will return to its former glory one day I just know it 😂😂 But that was the best play yet on your part lol.

@Dakota Thomas I agree, baseball will always survive. The God's Of Baseball juat won't let it die⚾️

Orioles have 3 championships and 7 pennants. That's not bad.

@@jasonleetaiwan i know I know, I just havent been alive for any of it haha

You should put 1800s

Wow that’s pretty neat! Just gets to sit there knowing they named the whole team and no one knows who it is!!

I was surprised that wasn’t mentioned. That’s like the most important and memorable part of how we got our name

I heard that from secret base

Apparently Arnold Smith didn't want to pay off the NWL team that revived the Seattle Rainiers name, Danny Kaye had said that would probably be the moniker I always assumed Mariners was practically an anagram of Rainiers with an M prefix as well as continuation of the Pilots aero & nautical theme 1960s fans also were awaiting our Seattle Jets major league entry Tacoma after the Giants Twins Cubs and Tugs was supposed to remain the old NWL Tigers till the Mariners took over and because of fan demand for renaming the Mariners as the Seattle Rainiers put it on Tacoma, the arch rival of the Rainiers akin to calling Brooklyn the Yank, better not Not only that but there is no Rainier in Tacoma going by their biggest old high school Mount Tahoma Seems so obvious Mariners go better with Tacoma with Subs instead of Cubs or Tridents over Tugs Would prefer Tacoma Mounts similarity to Tacoma Giants and Cheney Studs Left out one year Tacoma Yankees which could have become Tacoma Anchors

And why M 's not Skippers Skips Ships or Mains as nicknames, Logs even

Yeah apparently they were big fans of their footwear back then!

@@JustinLearnsThings The color of the socks was actually the stirrup, which aren't used anymore. The white socks worn under the stirrup were called "sanitaries." Back in those days, players could get nasty wounds in their legs from the spikes. The dyes used in the stirrups could get into a wound and lead to infections then known as blood poisoning.

Makes sense to me. Since nicknames were so loose and unofficial, the color of the uniforms seems like a great way to distinguish them.

@@tygrkhat4087 Correct. I think the problem was the dye that was used. I’ve heard references to that era, as some reporters refer to the White Sox as “the pale hose”.

Big part of it was that the socks were pretty much the only distinct part of those early uniforms, as the wearing of white for the rest of the uniform was considered genteel, gentlemanly, and proper, because heaven forbid that anyone see an athlete sweat. Sweating is coarse and common. Seriously, that's the reason for the traditions of wearing white in athletic contests comes from, as still seen in international test cricket and at Wimbledon. British imperialist snobbery. Can't appear to be a commoner, we're more elegant and sophisticated than that. All while they engaged in bloodthirsty colonial conquest and pillaging. Hypocritical asses.

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Los Angeles is called that because the Spanish who founded the city named it after “Mary, Queen of Angels” a title for the Virgin Mary.

@@Zach-mw5so basically the same thing with almost all of the southwest city names

Originality.

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Grandfather clause. It was named after an earlier professional basketball team (from 1944-1954) also called the Baltimore Bullets.

Not the grandfather clause. You missed the point of the joke.

Haha I know what you mean! My D-Backs have had a rough half decade plus!

Hang in there, fellow Bucco Believer. I’ve bee a fan since I walked home from school in October of 1960, cut on the old black and white, and saw Maz park one over the left field wall - a walk-off World Series championship!

My best friend Pirates fan says they died after 2015.

@@ChairmanMeow1 couldn’t agree more.

@@peetyw8851 people also don’t realize the pirates really had some powerhouse teams in the 1920s-30s with guys like pie traynor the waner brothers etc etc. We were a .500 team in the 40s and probably the worst team in the majors in the 1950s making 1960 even that much sweeter. I actually do know a lot of the history of the buccos lol.

@@DieselDog1982 I'm a LA fan 😂 our OG play by play announcer Vin Scully taught me this one tho.

Sun Rays isn't bad at all! Plus they could do some good Ray Ban partnerships!

sun rays would be cool, I would like that better than just rays. the Devil Rays was a gangster name tho

Well now that they dropped devil from the name, now we got a double meaning!

Are the Buccaneers a joke to you?

@@Rockhound6165 Well, it would be good if I could meet up with them at Arrrrrrrrrrrrrby’s!

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That’s creative! Thank god they dropped Devil from the name! Plus, it rhymes with A’s!

The original devil rays logo and color skeme was much nicer tho

Interesting

​@@fvd6553Don't know why they changed to such a generic color scheme that is used by so many teams.The original also represented Florida and Tampa rather well.

Labatt Breweries originally owned 45% of the Toronto Blue Jays; R. Howard Webster owned another 45%; and, CIBC owned the remaining 10% of the team.

Fun fact, Labatt Blue was named after the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League.

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@@ciello___8307 this had 300 views when I commented this, lol.

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LIES!! The Sox hate the Cubs, we can't respect them nor show them any love... being tongue and cheeky atm

Probably out on the town with cat woman! 😂

In the Bronx (Yankees), kicking butt in true Batman fashion

In the comics, the Gotham MLB team is the Giants.

Well obviously, every ballplayer is a batman /s

@@tygrkhat4087 dude the comics throw gotham around wherever, it’s been in connecticut on more than one occasion

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Cleveland Lakeshores should of been kept

I don’t know.... That name kinda seems Erie to me.

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They could make a sick logo about spiders

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Being a lifelong Red Sox fan, and living much of my life 5 miles or so from Troy,NY, I can say both are very true. First Major League Grand slam home run was even hit at a game played by the Troy team, but not in Troy. The stadium they used was unavailable so they had to play the game in a stadium in present day Rensselaer NY (then called East Albany, which is how it was written in baseball records). There is a plaque on the spot, and the location of the stadium is now a city park with a softball field roughly in the same spot.

Nice I’m a Red Sox fan

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Didn’t the spiders become like the worst team ever in 1899?

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Wasn't it 1985?

It was and I don’t know how I typed 1989 without realizing it and didn’t know I made this mistake until someone pointed it out lol.

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The Vikings "officially" were before the Twins. Vikings September of 1960 and the Twins were November 1960. The Vikings had a bit of a head start as ownership group were original slotted for the AFL in 1960. but the more prestigious NFL said to the ownership group, we're going to give Minnesota a franchise in 1961, do you want it, or be second fiddle with the AFL in the same town as the NFL.

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Of course Peculiar is located some 25 miles or so from downtown KC, so it's likely they would have gone on being called the KC A's. It would possibly have had a major impact on how the KC metro would have grown, depending on how long they might have played there.

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Sounds similar to how the New Orleans Saints were born. Pete Rozelle had to get Congress to agree on legislation that would allow the merger of the AFL and NFL. Congressman Hale Boggs of Louisiana had the power to make it happen and his price was an expansion franchise in New Orleans.

Ya, as a Seattle sports fan, that information (which I already knew, but thank you for bringing it up) infuriates me. We lost the Pilots after one dreadful season, had to wait over half a decade for a new team, who went on to be atrocious for almost 2 decades. In that time, we got the joy of watching the Pilots (now the Brewers) go to the World Series, a feat our Mariners are now the only active team in the MLB to have never accomplished. Oh, and btw, one year after tying the league record for the most wins in a single regular season, we started a soon to be 20 year playoff drought. Us lucky Seattle fans. For some reason, I still love my M's, though. Going to watch them play for the 22nd time, at my 11th ballpark, in 2 days.

One other factor in the KC Royals name was that the Brooklyn Dodgers used to have a farm club affiliate in Montreal, known as the Montreal Royals. It’s where Jackie Robinson briefly played, before being called up to Brooklyn. That’s why the home team uniforms of the Dodgers and Royals look so similar.

@@rowanblaze4185 Seattle is due. Sorry they lost Seager. Almost made it last year. Came down to last game. Our day will come.

@@KittyPurrfect100 I hope you're right. This young team this year has promise. But, we've seen unbelievably talented teams fail many times before. We persevere, though. It helps to have an attachment to the team that's never been dependent on winning.

That’s a really good point too that travel costs would be really prohibitive, especially back then, for a lone team on the other side of the country!

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That's Wrigley Field in LA......NOT the famous home of the Cubs-- Wrigley Field in Chicago....just so everyone knows.

@@rickr7599 did you know the Wrigley Field in L.A is the ORIGINAL one?

@@jonphillips2623 The name “Wrigley Field” was first used at the ballpark in LA, but the ballpark in Chicago was renamed “Wrigley” a couple years later, and was built more than a decade prior.

Well at least there’s just one coliseum

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Well remember, they were informal names

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The Braves, only baseball franchise to win the world series in 3 different cities.

@@bdog1323 Until the A's win one in Las Vegas

@@ferdinandfoch7816 NO! A’S PLEASE DON’T MOVE! Btw I’m from Oakland so I don’t want the A’s to move or I will be heartbroken

@@MiaCollinsNeighborhood The A’s relocation reminds me of the Washington Senators leaving for Texas in 1971. Owner Bob Short traded one of their best relievers and half of good infield to Detroit for a washed up Denny McLain, just to get the Tigers vote in relocating to Dallas-Fort Worth. “It’s Deja Vu all over again”!

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Came here to comment on moving the A’s to Vegas lol

Vuck Fegas. Hope the Raiders and Knights never win

Wait what?!

The Athletics should move to Montreal and redo the American League AL EAST- ATHLETICS RED SOX YANKEES ORIOLES RAYS CENTRAL- BLUE JAYS WHITE SOX TIGERS TWINS INDIANS WEST- ASTROS ROYALS RANGERS ANGELS MARINERS. That is what I think should happen.

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At least the A’s didn’t lose a rival in California

Would have never happened because they’re were 15 years left on the lease in San Diego and then Mayor Pete Wilson was going to sue Washington owner Joseph Dazansky for 3 times the purchase price for breaking the lease.

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It was a coincidence that these are the SAME colors!!

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Totally see what you mean, That’s why I’d be all for a constitutional amendment! I don’t think the founders could have anticipated the size of the permanent population in DC year round, even when congress isn’t in session. I understand that there’s constitutional questions to address, but in my opinion we should always look to expand representative democracy! Thanks for sharing the sharing the section from the Constitution and helping to provide a larger context for the conversation! 🙌 I hope you found the video fun!

@@JustinLearnsThings no, they did. It was much debated read Federalist #43 by James Madison. Also, since Home Rule passed in 1973, the city has changed remarkably. And for the better, Justin? Prior to Home Rule, D.C. had the best public schools in the nation. Today, the worst. And all at a cost of $29,000 per student, the highest in the nation. The idea of the Party of Detroit, Baltimore, Oakland, East St. Louis, Seattle and Portland taking total control of a *federal enclave* is a horrifying idea. And nothing more than pure power grab. Have D.C. residents absorbed into Maryland. Remember, the last time Democrats screwed around with D.C. was when Virginia took back their portion of the donated land in 1847. Why? To protect the institution of slavery. Clearly, it's not 1847 but shortsighted power grabs are never a good idea. And with a 50-50 senate, there is no mandate. But please, Justin, waste your time and write your congressperson. Get 2/3rds of the senate to ratify the constitution to make a city Democrats broke into a state. The irony is, the D.C. four generations of my family lived wasn't this ultra rich detached joke. My family were blue collar (teachers, cop, secretary for a senator). Those people that do all those jobs now? Most moved to Virginia or Maryland years ago. D.C. now is a caricature of limousine liberalism. Pretending the people in the richest zip codes in America are oppressed? No, Justin. Fix SE DC first. And yeah, I know you mean well, but you mispronounced Bill Veek's name too. The little lectures on racism and D.C. statehood in a baseball video was annoying enough but getting Veek's name is just lazy. Anyway, good luck the channel (honestly) and maybe either lean totally into politics or leave it alone. Being lectured constantly is getting old.

@@muggsyaxton8085 Dam bruh he mispronounced a name in a 43 minute long video about how every baseball team got their name but sure he's lazy

@@kippie2293 bruh is mo' annoyed at a baseball video advocating for D.C. statehood with pure ignorance. "How could they ever imagine people moving to the capital city" as a reason to grant a federal enclave statehood is lazy. The same kind of lazy that doesn't know the name of one of baseball's great characters, I guess. Read the Federalist Papers # 43 by James Madison, bruh.

@@muggsyaxton8085 I ain’t care about that I jus don’t get y the mispronunciation of a name is a key point in the fact that ur mad

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You spelled Diamondbacks wrong. But I have one thing to say to the Diamondbacks: Let’s go!

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And brewers fits well!

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Brewers have a great logo!

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And it was much to their dismay when fans started calling the team "The Jays" instead.

But they would have had to find some other name for the team aside from the traditional minor league name, correct? I can't imagine Harold Ballard would have let the baseball team use the name "Maple Leafs" without making the brewery write a rather large check.

@@mikedemenchuk7717 Which is funny because the hockey Leafs are named after a former Maple Leafs baseball team and not some regiment like the hockey Leafs like to sell you.

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Ironic that the Orioles circa 1901 eventually led to the NY Yankees.

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