| Baseball Team Names: A Worldwide Dictionary, 1869-2011 Contributor(s): Worth, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0786468440 ISBN-13: 9780786468447 Publisher: McFarland & Company OUR PRICE: $54.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Baseball - History - Reference | Dictionaries |
| Dewey: 796.357 |
| LCCN: 2012043795 |
| Physical Information: 0.98" H x 8.48" W x 10.93" (2.09 lbs) 416 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 (sponsored early by the Crawford Bath House and Recreation Center); from the minors, the Tucson Waddies (slang for cowboy) and, later, the Montgomery Biscuits (for the would-be concessions staple); from overseas, the Adelaide, Australia, Bite (a shark reference but also a pun for bight) and the Bussum, Netherlands, Mr. Cocker HCAW (the sponsoring restaurant chain, followed by the acronym for the official team name, Honkbalclub Allan Weerbaar). This comprehensive reference book explains the nicknames of thousands of major and minor league franchises, Negro League and early independent black clubs, and international teams--from 1869 through 2011. |