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Team Names: An Etymological Venn Diagram

By Miss Cellania in Sports on Sep 28, 2009 at 11:32 am


This diagram (actually an Euler diagram {wiki}) sorts out professional baseball team names. Even more interesting is the accompanying list of links and explanations for every team name included. Link -via Jason Kottke


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  1. spell check
    Sep 28th, 2009 at 11:59 am

    Etymological*

    We're talking about words not insects.

  2. Miss Cellania
    Sep 28th, 2009 at 12:09 pm

    Yikes! And I was so careful about where to put the "y"! I'll get that fixed. Thanks!

  3. ThespianSheldon
    Sep 28th, 2009 at 12:17 pm

    I wonder why the Cardinals aren't in the Animals column.
    Seems like a dumb mistake to me.

  4. gdw3
    Sep 28th, 2009 at 12:18 pm

    Uh, St. Louis Cardinals mascot is a bird, not a color.

  5. AdW
    Sep 28th, 2009 at 1:48 pm

    I'm pretty sure Cards represent a bird, thus the mascot (cardinal). Interestingly enough, they did start out as the 'brown stockings'.

  6. Anne
    Sep 28th, 2009 at 2:52 pm

    The Cardinals name came before the mascot. They were the St. Louis Perfectos for a year and they had red striped uniforms. A sports writer heard a woman say what a lovely shade of cardinal it was, and the name stuck. I'm just glad they're no longer the Perfectos.

  7. WaitWhat
    Sep 28th, 2009 at 3:46 pm

    I wish they were still the Perfectos. Best baseball team name ever.

  8. Miss Cellania
    Sep 28th, 2009 at 4:04 pm

    Perfectos would be an awful hard name to live up to!

  9. SpuriousLogic
    Sep 29th, 2009 at 8:57 am

    Why are Tigers in the locality section? Are there a lot of tigers in Detroit?

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