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United States Baseball League (est. 1900)

NOTE ON LOGO: The logo was designed by Ole Buzzard Hicks to incorporate the three major leagues at the time. This is why there are three stars on blue. The eagle from the NBL logo was kept and with colors from the Eastern League's logo. He despised the Players League so much that he did not put anything symbolizing the PL on the new logo. He blamed the PL for basically forcing a merger of all the leagues and ruining his team's dominance in the NBL. Detroit S&R had won four league championships in the 1890's. He said, "Two leagues can and will work. Three leagues is untenable and will either kill us all or join us all."

FOUNDING TEAMS

Eastern Baseball Conference
Baltimore Dockers (renamed from Inner Harbor Sporting Guild of the EL)
Boston Green Stockings (renamed from Boston Baseball Club of the EL)
Brooklyn Champions (renamed from Brooklyn Champion Club of the EL)
Buffalo All-Blues (renamed from Buffalo Field & Sport Club of the EL)
New York Dukes (renamed from Grand Duke Club of the EL)
New York Islanders (renamed from Long Island Baseball Club of the PL)
Philadelphia Gentlemen (renamed from Philadelphia Gentlemens Club of the PL)
Philadelphia Unions (renamed from Philadelphia Union League of the EL)
Pittsburgh Steel Miners (renamed from Steel City Baseball Club of the PL)
Washington Capitals (renamed from Washington Capital Club of the EL)


Western Baseball Conference
Chicago Kings (renamed from Windy City Baseball Club of the PL)
Chicago Mallards (renamed from Chicago Sporting Club of the NBL)
Cincinnati Lookouts (renamed from Cincinnati Baseball Club of the NBL)
Cleveland Grays (renamed from Cleveland Baseball Club of the NBL)
Detroit Buzzards (renamed from Detroit Sport & Recreation Club of the NBL)
Kansas City Mustangs (renamed from Kansas City Baseball Club of the PL)
Milwaukee Blue Stockings (renamed from Milwaukee Athletic Club of the NBL)
Minnesota Millers (renamed from the Minnesota Milling Company of the NBL)
Omaha Jacks (renamed from Omaha Baseball Club of the PL)
St. Louis Americans (renamed from St. Louis Baseball Club of the PL)


FOUNDING INFORMATION
The USBL was founded with 7 teams from the Eastern League, 6 teams from the National Baseball League, and 7 teams from the Players League. Teams joining the USBL were required to pay a $15,000 fee to the league to give it solid financial footing to start off with. Teams were also given the requirement that its formal offical team name would require a geographical location followed by a nickname. Most owners chose to name their teams with the city followed by the local nickname that the baseball club had been called.

TEAM NAME INFORMATION
Baltimore Dockers (named for the workers in the Inner Harbor where the team played)
Boston Green Stockings (named for the green leggings the team wore)
Brooklyn Champions (named for Brooklyn Champion Club, as they were often just called the Champions)
Buffalo All-Blues (named for the all navy blue uniforms the team wore)
New York Dukes (named from Grand Duke Club, as they were often just called the Dukes)
New York Islanders (named to for the team's location on Long Island)
Philadelphia Gentlemen (named from Philadelphia Gentlemens Club, as they were often just called the Gentlemen or Gents)
Philadelphia Unions (renamed from Philadelphia Union League, as they were often just called the Unions)
Pittsburgh Steel Miners (named to incorporate its founding club the Steel City Baseball Club and the many steel miner workers in the area)
Washington Capitals (named from the Washington Capital Club, as they were often just called the Capitals)

Chicago Kings (named by their owner because he had said his team "would be the Kings of the city" in a slight to the rival NBL Chicago Sporting Club team)
Chicago Mallards (named as a nod to the origins of the club as Chicago Sporting Club, which was founded as a hunting club before eventually sponsoring a baseball club)
Cincinnati Lookouts (named for the parks that the team played in Lookout Park, there were actually two different ballparks with the Lookout Park name)
Cleveland Grays (named for the owner of the team, Hiram Gray)
Detroit Buzzards (named for the owner of the team, Rutherford "Ole Buzzard" Hicks, who got the nickname for his business dealings where he would buying struggling/dying businesses for pennies on the dollar, "much like a buzzard picking a carcass," one newspaper once said about him. After he would prop the business up financially, he would then sell the business for a large profit)
Kansas City Mustangs (named for the wild horses that once roamed the western part of the state)
Milwaukee Blue Stockings (named for the blue leggings the team wore)
Minnesota Millers (named for Minnesota Milling Company, as they were often just called the Millers)
Omaha Jacks (named for Omaha's location as the start of the eastern side of the first tanscontinental railroad. A railroad jack is a very heavy-duty ratchet type of jack used to raise rail cars.)
St. Louis Americans (named because the owner, Wilson Perry, thought the nickname would make the centrally-located team, more popular to fans throughout the United States)