Posted on 04/28/2015 1:21:43 PM PDT by QT3.14
1882 Worcester played a game before empty stands. National League.
not sure if ever in A.L.
The Internet is unsure what their team was called. Ruby Legs is one choice.
That would be a good name for a chick team. Bring back the AAGPBL! Softball has ruined girl’s baseball.
I’ve only heard of them as the Ruby Legs, and that’s how BaseballReference.com lists the team: http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/WOR/
The Worcester Ruby Legs joined the National League in 1880, replacing the Syracuse Stars (the 1879 Stars were a completely different franchise form the 1890 Syracuse Stars of the American Association, which also lasted only one season), and were kicked off the league after the 1882 season. From 1880 to 1882, they were one of the four “Eastern teams” in the National League, along with the Boston Red Stockings (which later became the Boston Braves, Milwaukee Braves and Atlanta Braves), Providence Grays (which left the league after the 1885 season) and Troy Trojans (a.k.a. Haymakers, which left the NL after the 1882 season). The four “Western teams” in the NL during those years were the Chicago White Stockings (which later became the Cubs), Cleveland Blues (which left the league after the 1884 season), Buffalo Bisons (which left the league after the 1885 season), and a fourth team: in 1880, the Cincinnati Reds (which left the league after the season and is unrelated to the modern Reds, a team that was founded as the American Association’s Cincinnati Red Stockings in 1882 and moved to the NL—becoming the Reds—in 1890); and in 1881 and 1882 the Detroit Wolverines (which left the league after the 1888 season).
When Worcester and Troy left (or, more specifically, were removed from) the NL after the 1882 season, the NL added two new “Eastern” franchises for 1883: the New York Giants (which now are the San Francisco Giants) and the Philadelphia Quakers (which was renamed as the Phillies in 1890). Leaving behind small cities such as Worcester and Troy and moving into metropolises such as New York City and Philadelphia allowed the National League to continue to gain in popularity nationwide; as the U.S. Marine said to President Clinton when Clinton showed him two Arkansas razor-backed pigs told him that he had gotten one for Hillary and one for Chelsea: “Good trade, Sir.”
Wikipedia calls them the Worcester Worcesters (huh? zero chance anyone called them that) and suggests “Brown Stockings” as another name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_Worcesters
LOL!! If I heard that pig joke before, I had forgotten it.
They couldn’t simultaneously be the Ruby Legs and the Brown Stockings, since the term “legs” is a reference to the stockings (as in the Cincinnati Redlegs). There were some other Brown Stockings out there.
Maybe some newspapers referred to the team as the Worcesters, but I am certain that no one ever called them the Worcester Worcesters.
4-0 Orioles still hitting in the bottom of the first. Fans outside the gate are cheering. What a nightmare! ;d
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