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Phillies....
Like the Athletics, the Phillies never used the word "Philadelphia" except on their tickets.
As talented as the Athletics were with their mascot images, the Phillies were downright lousey. All they could come up with was a "P" or the word "Phillies". Real creative folks.
Except once.
This time you get their first and only real "mascot"... the blue jay. In the '40's (1944 I think), the team owner half-decided the it should be called the "Blue Jays", even though "Phillies" was still used on the uniform. The new nickname never had any real backing in the press or with the public and the team itself never really seemed to be behind it 100% either. About the best they did was stick a blue jay on the sleeve and use a medium blue on the uniform, but keep "Phillies" on it too. So the next year they quietly dropped the idea of renaming the team. But they couldn't seem to part with the blue jay. For several years afterward they kept using the bird on printed material.
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