Monday Trivia #134 [Steve wins!]

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1. Let’s see, Schilling at the end of September. Gotta be something obscure about baseball playoffs…Report

   1. Riffing off this, I’d say biggest jump in wins for a team that went worst-to-first.

      It can’t be single season or specific to this year because Boston is listed twice and Brooklyn is on the list.Report

      1. Unless one of those Boston teams is the Braves.Report

2. Of the original sixteen baseball franchises, the first season of their current nickname. Many existed prior to that with different nicknames. Also, nicknames were not as official in the early days as they are now.Report

   1. Exactly.Report

3. The full list:

   Giants 1885
   Reds 1890
   Phillies 1890
   Pirates 1891
   *Tigers 1895
   *White Sox 1900
   Cards 1900
   A’s 1901
   Cubs 1903
   Red Sox 1908
   Dodgers 1911
   Braves 1912
   Yankees 1913
   Indians 1915
   Orioles 1954
   Twins 1961

   * As minor league teams.Report

   1. There were separate minor and major leagues around the turn of the 20th?Report

   2. There were minor leagues as soon as the National League declared itself the first major league in 1876 (and actually began to distinguish itself as superior during the 1880s). But you’re probably thinking of a minor league as a farm system for the major leagues, and that didn’t start until Branch Rickey began to develop them during the 1920s. Before that, a minor league team was an independent business that signed players, sold tickets, and occasionally sold the contract of one of its players to a higher-level team (major or higher minor.) There are still a few independent minor league teams around (though obviously they can’t sell players anymore), but they’re a tiny minority. Anyway, given that there was no baseball west of the Mississippi or south of the Potomac until the 1950s, minor league baseball was what the majority of the country had.Report

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