[Ads-l] Origin of Pittsburgh Pirates nickname

[Jonathan Lighter]

1923_Cleveland Plain Dealer_ (Dec. 23) 3-D: The [Boston] Braves of
1924...will be a team of hustlers. Perhaps the fans of the Hub will change
the team's nickname to "Banny's [i.e., Bancroft's] Bumblebees."

1933 _Seattle Daily Times_ (Nov. 8) 20: But out of more than a thousand
suggestions they finally set [sic] on  "Seahawks" as the official nickname
of the Seattle hockey club.

1937 _Trenton Evening Times_ (June 10) 30: Hazleton, "farm" team of the
Boston Red Sox, dropped its old nickname of "Mountaineers" immediately when
the American League club took control. Manager George Toporcer's men are
the Hazleton "Red Sox."

JL

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 3:22 PM Andy Bach <afbach at gmail.com> wrote:

> Alternate origins (but they've not heard of the the "PofP" version):
>
> *Milwaukee Brewers: *Milwaukee, home to Pabst, Miller, and Schlitz, decided
> to name its team the Brewers after public outcry over the original team
> name, the Milwaukee Drunks.
>
> *New York Mets: *Although some may assume that the New York Mets are
> affiliated with the art museum or the opera house, “Mets” is actually short
> for “methamphetamines,” in honor of the drug that made the original team
> owners their fortune.
>
> *Philadelphia Phillies: *Named after the species with the Latin name
> *Philli
> phanatica*, which is indigenous to the area.
>
> *Pittsburgh Pirates: *Riddle me this: they’re called the Pirates, but
> Pittsburgh is landlocked.
>
>
> https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/origin-stories-of-mlb-team-names
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 3:24 PM Peter Reitan <pjreitan at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I recently posted an article about the origin of the Pittsburgh Pirates'
> > nickname.  The general story is well known - Pittsburgh "stole"
> (allegedly
> > - they were exonerated) some players - therefore "Pirates."  The story
> is a
> > bit more complex than that; there were a lot of pirates and accusations
> of
> > piracy flying around at the time.  Humorously, when the name Pirates
> > finally caught on with Pittsburgh, it was borrowed from lyrics from the
> > Pirates of Penzance, "It is, it is, a glorious thing, to be, to be a
> Pirate
> > King."
> >
> >
> https://esnpc.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-pittsburgh-pirates-of-penzance.html
> >
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