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Anaheim-Los Angeles Angels
The Angels obtained their nickname after moving into the American League in 1960 to their home of Los Angeles, the City of Angels.

Baltimore Orioles
Many other minor league clubs have been known as the Orioles as well, but after moving from St. Louis the Browns were named after the state bird of Maryland.

Boston Red Sox
The Red Sox originally named the Somersets after the club owner had a number of other nicknames throughout their MLB career including the Puritans, Pilgrims and Plymouth Rocks. Finally in 1907 they became the Red Sox after an obvious stocking uniform change.

Chicago White Sox
Originally referred to as the white stockings the Chicago team later changed its name to the White Sox to prevent confusion with a previous team of the same name in the National League.

Cleveland Indians
In the 1890s the Cleveland Indians began as the Spiders, then called the Blues, as well as the Babe or Broncos near the turn of the century. Also named after Napoleon Lajoie after becoming manager they were referred to as the Naps as well as the Molly McGuires after manager Jim McGuire in 1909. Then in 1915 the finalized version of the team name was decidedly the Indians after a newspaper poll was held and the then star of the team, a Penobscot Indian helped influence the voters decisions.

Detroit Tiger
The Detroit Tigers are appropriately named after the stripped stockings the wore.

Kansas City Royals
Elected by fans the Kansas City Royals were named after the famous Americal Royal Livestock and Horse Show held in Kansas City.

Minnesota Twins
Originally the Washington Senators the Minnesota Twins were names after the city in which the reside after moving to the Twin Cities in 1960.

Former Pittsburgh Pirates‘ pitcher admitted to being under the influence of LSD during his 1970 no hitter against the San Diego Padres. Evidentelly he new just hours before he was going to pitch, having thought he had the day off his girlfriend and trip partner soon realized he was going to be pitching later that afternoon.

The Pirates ended up winning the game 2-0 despite Ellis having walked eight batters and hit a few. It was undeniably a highpoint in his baseball career and it may be stated that it is a high point yet to be outdone in great sports achievements. Ellis had long since been known for his intolerance for slights and questioned racism in the sport of baseball. Despite his overall control issues that game in trying to maintain his no hitting streak within the game after fathoming the thought in just the fourth inning.

On July 19th of 2000 the Texas Rangers traded Esteban Loaiza to the Toronto Blue Jays for Darwin Cubillan and Michael Young. This trade resulted in essentially two mistakes when contracting this trade for Loaiza by the Blue Jays. The first was trading him for a future stud short stop, Michael Young and the second was in letting Loaiza go to the Chicago White Sox where he won 21 games where he improved to well over triple his strikeouts and split his ERA. The Rangers came out of the trade with a five-time All-Star and career .300 hitter for a pitcher that the Blue Jays eventually did not capitalize on.

In 1960, the Chicago White Sox became the first team to place a player’s name on the back of the teams jersey. Mainly the result of the MLB’s continued expansion of teams in the early 60s it certainly was time to cater more to newcomers and die hard fans alike in discerning some of their favorite play makers and being able to track opposing players performance etc. I imagine the broadcast announcers welcomed the addition to MLB jerseys as well.

Anaheim Angels Nickname

Once called the California Angels between September 1965 and November 19th, 1996, the Los Angeles Angels were named after the Los Angeles city, which translates into the City of Angels, they called home after the came into the American League.

In 1929, both the New York Yankees and the Cleveland Indians first introduced numbers on the backs of mlb jersyes. When originally introduced the Yankee numbers were designed to correspond to a players’ position in the batting order, for example, Babe Ruth, was number 3 follow by Lou Gehrig. By 1932, every Major League team had incorporated this addition to the baseball uniform, a practice that obviously remains to this day.

Aside from the advent of the Boston Red Stockings first introducing the knickerbockers and showcasing their red stockings as a part of their baseball uniform stockings took drastic changes in look. Styles through out the 1900’s included diamonds and stripped stockings ranging in color combination as well as stirrups intended to create distinction from NFL uniforms.

Stockings also aided in spawning some ball club names because of the distinct changes to their uniform and focus on the look of their stockings including the Red and White Stockings as well as the Detroit Tigers as they were nicknamed since somewhere around 1895 becuase of the stripped stockings they wore but would not enter their first major league game until 1901.

Now long gone they days of the pull over fold down collared shirts with a front laced or buttoned jersey but in 1906, the New York Giants became the first team to play without collared MLB jerseys.

It had been nearly a sixty year tradition by then of wearing collared jerseys that resembled something along the lines of a bankers’ outfit. But after this debut by the Giants the Major League players were finally freed from the eternal annoyance of the collared shirt.

During the 1906 Giants season that was rocked by an earthquake the New York Giants strove to a 96 game winning record.

During baseball’s formative era of the 19th century, the 1868 Cincinnati Red Stockings were not only the first publicly announced professional team and became the first team to wear knickers as a part of the baseball uniform rather than pants spawning a major change in the baseball uniform. This was then considered revealing by players and fans, but the new stockings and short knickers quickly caught on and was embraced by ballplayers. The new look spawned the teams nickname ‘Red Stockings’ and established the color of Cincinnati marking an important point in baseball history with influences on the Boston Red Sox and Braves as well.