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ldambrosa · 01-24-2020, 08:31 AM

Thanks, 3fbrown! (PS - a fan of Three Finger Brown myself, from playing APBA way back when I was a kid and my older brothers had bought some old-time great teams, the 1906 Cubs and the 1922 St Louis Browns). Anyway, I saw this:

I usually let teams keep their historical nicknames. But there is one exception - in the first decade of the 20th century, Cleveland named themselves the Naps after their best player, Napoleon Lajoie. But in Replay League, he spent his entire career with the Cardinals. Cleveland can’t name themselves after someone on another team! It turns out that their star player at that point in time was future Hall of Fame pitcher Noodles Hahn. So, they became the Cleveland Noodles for a time.

I am doing a similar replay to yours in that I am starting in 1901. When Lajoie came into my league, he ended up on the Phillies, so I changed their name to the Philadelphia Naps. During the 1907 season, the Phillies traded him to (!) the Cleveland Bronchos, so the Phillies went back to being the Phillies, and the Bronchos became the Naps :-)

01-24-2020, 08:31 AM	#31
ldambrosa Minors (Single A) Join Date: Feb 2018 Location: Lincroft, NJ Posts: 61	Thanks, 3fbrown! (PS - a fan of Three Finger Brown myself, from playing APBA way back when I was a kid and my older brothers had bought some old-time great teams, the 1906 Cubs and the 1922 St Louis Browns). Anyway, I saw this: I usually let teams keep their historical nicknames. But there is one exception - in the first decade of the 20th century, Cleveland named themselves the Naps after their best player, Napoleon Lajoie. But in Replay League, he spent his entire career with the Cardinals. Cleveland can’t name themselves after someone on another team! It turns out that their star player at that point in time was future Hall of Fame pitcher Noodles Hahn. So, they became the Cleveland Noodles for a time. I am doing a similar replay to yours in that I am starting in 1901. When Lajoie came into my league, he ended up on the Phillies, so I changed their name to the Philadelphia Naps. During the 1907 season, the Phillies traded him to (!) the Cleveland Bronchos, so the Phillies went back to being the Phillies, and the Bronchos became the Naps :-)