“Some of us remember the Philadelphia A’s, Washington Senators, Boston Braves, Chicago Cardinals, Baltimore Colts, St.Louis Browns, etc. But that was when America was still America.”
And don’t forget Washington Redskins, Cleveland Indians...
An earlier Cleveland baseball team was the Cleveland Spiders. When it folded Cleveland had a team named the Cleveland Naps
One of the Spider players had been a Penobscot Indian named Louis Sockalexis. He’s arguably the first American Indian to play MLB.
The story is that the fans took a liking to Sockalexis and they began referring to the Spiders as “the Indians”. This fan generated nickname stuck to subsequent Cleveland baseball teams and in 1915 the Naps renamed themselves the Indians, basically a hattip tribute to Sockalexis.
Never forget. Included in the “etc”.
Brooklyn Dodgers
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