So the New York Yankees were the original Baltimore Orioles, the current Baltimore Orioles were once the St Louis Browns, both Minnesota Twins and Texas Rangers were the Washington Senators, and the Washington Nationals were once the Montreal Expos.
@@Eduar6996 Montreal has plans to build a new ballfield, most likely to tempt the Rays. History of bad teams or not having a new ball field ready will give Montreal an advantage.
You have the 1983 Phillies logo wrong. 1983 was the centennial season for the Phils and their logo was a green baseball diamond with "100" in the center with 1883 on top and 1983 on the bottom ringed in red, white, and powder blue with 4 different variations of the "P" they used over the 100 years.
@@wilsonperez728 um, no. The Phillies came to be in 1883 after the Worcester Brown Stockings folded. Even though they were unofficially called the Quakers, the name Phillies was coined by the Philadelphia Inquirer and it's been ever since with the exception of when they flirted with changing to the Blue Jays in the mid 1940's.
The story goes that New York Giants manager John McGraw wasn’t interested at first in playing Connie Mack’s Philadelphia A’s in the 1905 World Series because he never really recognized the A.L. as a “true” major league-both the A.L. and N.L. had only just stopped their player-stealing war just two years beforehand, and McGraw was centrally involved in those wars as the former player-manager of the original Baltimore Orioles (the current New York Yankees) who watched his team both get torn out from under him and get the hammer dropped on them by league founder Ban Johnson for their constant literal dirty tricks and plays dating back to the early 1890s, leading to an intense lifelong feud between the two of them. In such a spirit, McGraw had already prevented a World Series between his Giants and the Boston Americans (now the Red Sox) from taking place the year before by outright refusing to let his team play them, and in itching to do the same for ‘05, insulted the A’s to the press by calling them “a bunch of white elephants” (popular slang at the time for frauds or fakes, borne of a popular myth involving the King of Siam being given white-colored elephants he was led to believe to be much more valuable than they really were). Upon hearing the insult, A’s owner-manager Connie Mack decided to run with it and ordered his players’ uniforms to be redesigned with patches of white elephants on their shoulders; the publicity of that World Series (which went ahead after a formal legal agreement was signed by the two leagues for a permanent postseason series the previous winter) brought so much positive fan and media reception that Mack decided to make the designs permanent parts of the team’s uniforms, which they’ve remained ever since. :)
@@randomtraveler9854 @cforester0808 You're both correct in some fashion. Yes, technically, the Reds didn't change names entirely. However, the Reds name is short for both Redlegs and Red Stockings. Think the reason for it was to separate themselves from the Boston Red Sox and not confuse the MLB teams that both Cincinnati and Boston have. Also, not only the Boston Red Sox, they had the Braves in early 1900's before moving to Milwaukee, then now they're currently the in Atlanta.
The Orioles started off as the original Milwaukee Brewers in 1901 along with the rest of the American League, moved to St.Louis and played as the Browns until 1953 and moved to Baltimore in 1954. And actually the Yankees are the original Baltimore Orioles that played in Baltimore in 1902 before moving to New York as the Highlanders. If you don't believe me look it up.
@@asherdossetter4480 World Series really should be called the USA Series because only teams from North America including Canada have teams that play in the MLB. No offense, but if MLB really wants to have a proper World Series, then teams from Central , Caribbean, South America and Mexico need to be involved... or maybe teams from Europe, Middle East, Asia, Africa or Oceania need to be included as well ?! Also, I doubt that fans would could complain about the additional competition; unless the players in MLB are too scared to play against teams from other hemispheres or nations !?
@@DmitriyK12 The problem with that is MLB is the highest level of professional baseball in the world. Unless MLB would expand into other countries you really can't involve the whole world..
Same with Washington. The original Senators became the Minnesota Twins, and Washington was given ANOTHER team called the Senators,which moved to Texas in 1972. When I was a kid,they would always have a sign at Redskins football games that read "BASEBALL IN D.C. !" back in the 80s.
Asher Dossetter well there’s three dates that could be considered the start.1869 is when the first professional team was formed, 1901 was when the National and American Leagues first coexisted, and 1903 when the first World Series was
Well, the line needs to be drawn somewhere, like for ice hockey 1910 or 1917 for either the NHA or NHL, or 1925 or 1946 for either the ABL and NBA. It’s just like with the start of a country, like 843 or 987 for France. Not everyone is going to agree on a starting point. I’d say that for pro baseball 1903 is fair, but for he pre modern era 1876 with the start of the national league.
