Talk:History of baseball team nicknames

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I don't claim ownership of this article, although I seem to be the only one working on it, which could mean no one else cares. Fine. Anyway, I'm thinking this will work better by city and with some chronological sense, than the way it's set up now. It's got too many sections, and is too wordy, also. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 00:37, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

NY Giants & Negro league teams

I have removed the following statement: "The popularity of the Giants inspired several Negro league baseball clubs to adopt a variation of that name, such as the Baltimore Elite Giants and the Chicago American Giants."

I have been trying to verify this, but cannot, as of yet, locate a source for this statement. I note that the Cuban Giants started in 1885, about the same time the NY Gothams changed their name to the Giants, but I cannot find a connection between the two. I know that "Giants" was code for a black team, but I am not convinced it has anything to do with the NY Giants since they had not been called that for any amount of time when the Cuban Giants appeared. If someone has a source tying this together, please reinsert the statement, along with the cited reference. Rgrds, --64.85.220.197 (talk) 04:23, 5 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Good point. That connection would qualify as original research, and you were right to remove it. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 12:58, 10 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Bad article

This article is pretty bad. It needs an almost complete rewrite.

A huge amount of it doesn't even relate to the nicknames of the teams. Some nicknames are so obvious they do not really require explanation. And the referencing is absurd. The writing style is also bizarre in points.

Agreed, sadly. The article is full of errors of fact, and assembling of disconnected facts to create a narative that isn't in the sources. That's WP:SYNTH. Frankly, we don't need this article; the nicknames of each team belong at the team articles, not in an unneeded compilation. oknazevad (talk) 14:26, 22 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Turkin and Thompson

I don't think it's appropriate to single out the Turkin and Thompson encyclopedias for somehow spreading misinformation about 19th century team nicknames. I have those books, and there is very little I can find about the subject therein. Anyone with contradictory observations, please point out edition and page number. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 21:24, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]