Can you pick the original team from the current MLB team?
Click the matching answer button below Correctly selected answers will show up in green Source: Baseball Reference and Wikipedia This quiz looks for the ORIGINAL roots of current MLB teams. Since the American League was considered "minor league" until 1901, some teams actually originated from their first minor league name. This quiz has not been verified by Sporcle
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Original Teams - MLB Match Quiz
Created Sep 17, 2012 in Sports
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deej : Sep 17th, 2012 at 07:04 GMT 1 point I think you're probably on shaky ground counting the minor league versions of teams as being canonical to the franchise. By this logic, why aren't more recent expansion teams considered an extension of the AAA team they replaced?
nyisles : Sep 17th, 2012 at 08:18 GMT 1 point Recent expansion teams are created from various players in the minor leagues and those who were left unprotected in the major leagues. The "National League" was the major leagues prior to 1901. Every other baseball league was considered "minor" including what is now know as the "American League". When the American League merged with the National League it was the beginning of what we now call "Major League Baseball". So if you trace back some of the old AL franchises, you will find out the original team back when it was considered a "minor league" franchise.
The best example I can give without blowing answers would be in other sports. As long as the Jets and Patriots have been in the NFL, they have been known as the NY Jets and New England Patriots, but if you look at the roots of the franchises, the NY Jets played as the Titans of New York and the NE Patriots were known as the Boston Patriots in the AFL, which was not merged with the NFL until 1966.
In basketball, the NBA was created 1946 and the San Antonio Spurs did not join the NBA until 1976, but that does not mean the Spurs were created in 1976, they were around since 1967 and did not become the "Spurs" until 1973. If you trace them back to 1967, the original team name was the Dallas Chaparrals. Same for the Denver Nuggets as they joined the NBA in 1976 but were created in 1967 when they were known as the Denver Rockets. The Brooklyn Nets are also an example being created in 1967 as the New Jersey Americans but did not join the NBA until 1976 (they became the Nets in 1968).
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