List of baseball nicknames

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This is a list of nicknames of Major League Baseball teams

Contents 1 Arizona Diamondbacks 2 Atlanta Braves 3 Baltimore Orioles 4 Boston Red Sox 5 Chicago Cubs 6 Chicago White Sox 7 Cincinnati Reds 8 Cleveland Indians 9 Colorado Rockies 10 Detroit Tigers 11 Florida Marlins 12 Houston Astros 13 Kansas City Royals 14 Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 15 Los Angeles Dodgers 16 Milwaukee Brewers 17 Minnesota Twins 18 New York Mets 19 New York Yankees 20 Oakland Athletics 21 Philadelphia Phillies 22 Pittsburgh Pirates 23 St. Louis Cardinals 24 San Diego Padres 25 San Francisco Giants 26 Seattle Mariners 27 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 28 Texas Rangers 29 Toronto Blue Jays 30 Washington Nationals 31 References 32 External Links 33 See Also

[edit] Arizona Diamondbacks

• D-backs
• Snakes

[edit] Atlanta Braves

• Bravos
• America's Team ^[1]

[edit] Baltimore Orioles

• O's (fans usually emphize this nickname, even yelling in unision, "O" during the National Anthem)
• Birds

[edit] Boston Red Sox

• BoSox^[2]
• Da Sox
• Olde Towne Team ^[3]
• The Sox

[edit] Chicago Cubs

• Cubbies^[4]
• Loveable Losers^[5]
• Northsiders (Due to the location of where the Cubs play, in the north side of Chicago)^[6]

[edit] Chicago White Sox

• ChiSox^[7]
• Pale Hose^[8]
• Southsiders (Due to the location of where the White Sox play, in the south side of Chicago)
• Black Sox (after throwing the 1919 World Series) ^[9]

[edit] Cincinnati Reds

• Redlegs (a nickname used in the early 1950s during the Red Scare) ^[10]
• The Big Red Machine (during the team's run in the 1970s, when they won the division 6 times and appeared in the World Series 4 times) ^[11]

[edit] Cleveland Indians

• The Redskins
• The Tribe
• Chief Wahoo's Tribe ^[12]
• The Wahoo's ^[13]

[edit] Colorado Rockies

• Rox

[edit] Detroit Tigers

• The Motor City Kitties
• Pinetars
• Tigs

[edit] Florida Marlins

• Fish^[14]
• The Fins

[edit] Houston Astros

• 'Stros
• Lastros^[15]

[edit] Kansas City Royals

• R's

[edit] Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

• Halos
• Seraphs
• Wings

[edit] Los Angeles Dodgers

• Bums
• The Boys of Summer (The first two from their Brooklyn days; usage in L.A. has faded with time) ^[16]
• Blue Crew
• The Dogturds (Used by detractors, Giants fans.)

[edit] Milwaukee Brewers

• Brew Crew^[17]
• Beermakers^[18]

[edit] Minnesota Twins

• Twinkies

[edit] New York Mets

• The Loveable Losers (when they first started playing)
• The Kings of Queens
• The Amazin' Mets
• The Amazins
• Miracle Mets (during their run in the 1969 season. They eventually won the World Series)
• Mutts (by haters)
• Pond Scum (by haters)
• Mess (by haters)

[edit] New York Yankees

• The Bronx Bombers
• Bombers
• The Pinstripes
• Yanks
• New Yorkers
• Evil Empire (coined by Red Sox executive Larry Lucchino)
• The Enemy
• Damned Yankees
• The Dankees

[edit] Oakland Athletics

• A's ^[7](A nickname that the Athletics emphasized in the 60's and 70's during the ownership of Charles Finley, still very much used by fans and media today)
• F's (by haters, in reference to academic marks in school, as well as a play on the nickname A's as in an A is a good grade, however an F is a failing grade.)
• Oakland Assholes (Used by detractors, Giants fans.)

[edit] Philadelphia Phillies

• (Fightin') Phils
• Phightins (Fans in Philadelphia usually will add "Ph" instead of an "F" in most words associated with the Phillies)
• Sillies
• Pillies (given when some players were involved in an amphetamine scandal in the early 1980s)
• Quakers and Blue Jays (alternate nicknames used early in the team's history, the first from the 1880s, and the second from the early 1940s)
• Whiz Kids (for the 1950 National League Championship team, for their youth)
• Wheeze Kids (for the 1983 National League Championship team, for their lack of youth)

[edit] Pittsburgh Pirates

• Bucs
• Buc-o's or Bucco's (as in Buccaneer's)

[edit] St. Louis Cardinals

• Cards
• Redbirds
• Birds

[edit] San Diego Padres

• Pods
• Friars
• Fathers (Padres is Spanish for Fathers)

[edit] San Francisco Giants

• G-men
• Jints (rhymes with "pints")
• Gigantes (Hee-gant-ace) which is Spanish for Giants
• The Orange And Black
• Orange Nation

[edit] Seattle Mariners

• M's

[edit] Tampa Bay Devil Rays

• D-rays
• Rays

[edit] Texas Rangers

• Strangers (used when the team is playing poorly)

[edit] Toronto Blue Jays

• Jays (The team has emphized this name rather than "Blue Jays")

[edit] Washington Nationals

• Nats ^[19]
• The Anchors

[edit] References

1. ^ Wulf, Steve, America's Team II, Sports Illustrated, 1982-08-09.
2. ^ Jays shut out BoSox. Retrieved on March 13, 2007.
3. ^ "Bye-bye Bambino", 2004-10-07. Retrieved on March 14, 2007.
4. ^ Template error: argument title is required.
5. ^ Chicago Cubs Can Make Wrigley Friendly Again: Scott Soshnick. Retrieved on March 13, 2007.
6. ^ Boys of Summer spring forward. Retrieved on March 13, 2007.
7. ^ ^{a b} A's Fall To ChiSox On Saturday. Retrieved on March 13, 2007.
8. ^ Tuesday Afternoon Fights. Retrieved on March 13, 2007.
9. ^ The Black Sox Trial: An Account. Retrieved on March 14, 2007.
10. ^ Fried, Richard M., Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective, Oxford University Press ISBN 0195043618
11. ^ 30 Years Ago: The Big Red Machine Steamrolls the Opposition. Retrieved on March 14, 2007.
12. ^ Template error: argument title is required.
13. ^ History of the Wahoo Club. Retrieved on March 14, 2007.
14. ^ Wood trying to make it with Fish. Retrieved on March 13, 2007.
15. ^ 100 Years of Qualitude. Retrieved on March 13, 2007.
16. ^ Kahn, Roger The Boys of Summer, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, ISBN 0060956348
17. ^ New era dawning for Brew Crew?. Retrieved on March 13, 2007.
18. ^ Five Questions: Milwaukee Brewers. Retrieved on March 13, 2007.
19. ^ Solomon, George, Nats Have Tough Crowd to Please, The Washington Post, 2007-02-11.

[edit] External Links

• Official Major League Baseball history of American League nicknames
• Official Major League Baseball history of National League nicknames

[edit] See Also

Nicknames: Sports clubs and their nicknames