I have been reading this book for a while. Getting distracted by the 101st season in my beloved park.
That is where I discovered an interesting bit right in the first chapter. Boston was once a two team town. There was an American League team The Boston Red Sox and a second team that played on the National team side. This less popular team had been given several different names as time went on. The Nationals, The Doves, or even The Rustlers....
Well Glenn Stout says it better than I ever could
The Nationals began to rouse from their slumber. James Gaffney, a member of New York's Tammany hall political machine purchased the club. Former player John Montgmery Ward was elected president and on December 21 the club made some changes.
First Ward announced that henceforth the team would no longer be known as The Nationals, or the Doves or Rustlers ....They would be known as "The Braves" Ward explained that new owner James Gaffney is one of the grand sachems of Tammany in New York and is known as one of the "Braves"
Therefore Boston Braves would have the true fighting ring that the fans would take to. --James Gaffney
He continues -----
The Tammany Hall building was in fact named after a Native American Chief Tammany, and so the political activists who meet there and became New York's first political machine were called "Braves"
The nickname continues to this day, used by the Atlanta Braves although few fan realize that the name originally referred to a machine politician, not a Native American
Back to me then
So if any from Atlanta is listening, your team was not named as a offence of your Native lands. The Toma-hawk shot in the 7th inning is useless.
The new mascot should be a guy in a poorly made suit demanding 10% of all earning
Now
That is where I discovered an interesting bit right in the first chapter. Boston was once a two team town. There was an American League team The Boston Red Sox and a second team that played on the National team side. This less popular team had been given several different names as time went on. The Nationals, The Doves, or even The Rustlers....
Well Glenn Stout says it better than I ever could
The Nationals began to rouse from their slumber. James Gaffney, a member of New York's Tammany hall political machine purchased the club. Former player John Montgmery Ward was elected president and on December 21 the club made some changes.
First Ward announced that henceforth the team would no longer be known as The Nationals, or the Doves or Rustlers ....They would be known as "The Braves" Ward explained that new owner James Gaffney is one of the grand sachems of Tammany in New York and is known as one of the "Braves"
Therefore Boston Braves would have the true fighting ring that the fans would take to. --James Gaffney
He continues -----
The Tammany Hall building was in fact named after a Native American Chief Tammany, and so the political activists who meet there and became New York's first political machine were called "Braves"
The nickname continues to this day, used by the Atlanta Braves although few fan realize that the name originally referred to a machine politician, not a Native American
Back to me then
So if any from Atlanta is listening, your team was not named as a offence of your Native lands. The Toma-hawk shot in the 7th inning is useless.
The new mascot should be a guy in a poorly made suit demanding 10% of all earning
Now
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