SBC (Predecessor of SRL) Champions going into 1877 season

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Some new uniforms for the prospective future Detroit Assemblers, AKA the Detroit Assembly Liners. Caps should follow at some point, although I've not yet figured out when this team will be created for any of my various dynasties, or which dynasty or dynasties this team would ultimately come to be part of, if and whenever possible. Hope you like these, of course, Eugene. Items for the Florida Launchers will most likely be posted next, at least in terms of uniforms, if not also caps. That is all. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Here are some new uniforms for a prospective team called the Florida Launchers. Will probably need to work on them more later, of course, but this is what I have so far for them, in any case. These probably will not be in a dynasty anytime before at least the middle 1940's or 1950's, though, I think, if they aren't used at the start of any dynasty at first instead. That is all. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Some new uniforms for the Milwaukee Cyclers. They'll probably need more work done on them, of course, but here's what I still have for them at present, in any case. I thought Cyclers could have a double meaning, seeing as motorbikes cycle around, as do many baseball players, of course. That is all. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Some new uniforms for the Minnesota Nocturnauts. They'll probably still need at least a bit more work done on them later, but this is what I currently have for them. Might still call the relevant team the Minnesota Moonlights, but if I don't ultimately call them that when the needed team is created, I'll most likely stick with this name for it. Hope you like them, of course. That is all. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Some new uniforms for the Missouri Show-Mes. May ultimately call the relevant team the Missouri Investigators or something similar, but I'm experimenting a little bit with certain teams I'm thinking of for possible use sometime later in one or more of my dynasties, just the same. In any case, here's what I have currently for them, although they'll probably still need some more work done on them, of course. Hope you like them. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Some new uniforms for the Montreal Playwrights. These will probably need to be worked on more periodically, prior to potential team creation and use, but this is what I have so far for this prospective future team. That is all. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Some new uniforms for the prospective Imperial Garden Enforcers. This team will be based somewhere in the New York-New Jersey area, once created for any or all of my dynasties, although I don't know just when they might be, et cetera. I have two potential uniforms made for them so far, and they will be shown here. Two more uniforms should soon join them as well, once done. The uniforms below are ones I'll probably need to work on more later, of course, but for now, at least, here's what they look like. Hope you like them. That is all. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Some new uniforms for the Nashville Diamonds. Still may need to work on them more later, of course, but at least this is what I've made for them so far. Don't know when this team may be created in any of my dynasties yet, of course, though. Hope you like them, somehow. That is all. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Some new uniforms for the New Orleans Bayous. They will probably need more work done on them later, of course, but for now, at least, this is what I have for them. Do not yet know when they might be created for any or all of my various dynasties, either, but hopefully these would work for them once they are or would be created for them. Hope you like these, folks. That is all. CD out.

[Eugene Church]

CD, I like the New Orleans Bayous the best out of your recent jerseys.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

What do you think of the Fourteeners' items so far? Won't do any for the Great Plains Bisons, because I'll use low's items for them.

I still have to make uniforms for teams in Portland, San Diego, Seattle, Texas, Toronto, and Washington, DC. I have colors picked out for them, but no uniforms made yet. I do not have a team name in mind yet for San Diego, but I do know that I don't want to use one of the usual names for teams from there. I would like to use a name that fits the locale, but isn't one that has been used before.

So far, I've worked out the following team names and locations for a prospective league, most likely for at least my Turtle Pilgrim 001 dynasty, if not others as well:

Arizona Canyoneers (Probably in some town or city fairly close to the Grand Canyon)
Bay Area Spiders (Not sure where in the Bay Area I might want to put them, but don't really want to use San Francisco, San Jose, or Oakland, at least, for their home location)
Boston Brainiacs (Boston, or somewhere nearby for home park location)
California Lords (In or around Los Angeles area, if not either in Anaheim or Los Angeles proper)
Chicago Urban Cowboys (Chicago metro area)
Colorado Fourteeners (Somewhere in Colorado, but not Denver, location TBD)
Detroit Assemblers (Somewhere near where many of the automakers operate from)
Florida Launchers (Probably somewhere near Cape Canaveral, not sure where yet)
Great Plains Bisons (Lincoln, Omaha, other cities under consideration at the moment)
Imperial Garden Enforcers (Somewhere in the New York/New Jersey area, especially near New York City)
Milwaukee Cyclers (Milwaukee area)
Minnesota Nocturnauts (Somewhere in northeast Minnesota, Duluth possibility)
Missouri Show-Mes (Jefferson City and Columbia under consideration)
Montreal Playwrights (Montreal area)
Nashville Diamonds (Nashville area)
New Orleans Bayous (New Orleans area)
Ohio Swallowtails (Columbus area likely when team created)
Pennsylvania Keystoners (Philadelphia most likely, Harrisburg and Pittsburgh may see games periodically)
Portland Buckaroos (Portland area in Oregon)
San Diego ? (San Diego area, and north of border)
Seattle Slammers (Seattle area)
Texas Border Patrol or Border Patrollers (El Paso, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Dallas may see games, or various border cities)
Toronto Aeros (Toronto area)
Washington Swamp Rats or Beltway Belters (Washington, DC area, perhaps including places in Maryland or Virginia for certain games)

I don't know how the teams will be divided up yet, exactly, but I envision two subleagues with two divisions of six teams each, when the necessary league is created with them in it. I also do not have names for the potential league or subleagues or divisions yet, either. But those will probably come in time, eventually. Lord willing, of course, that is.

In the meantime, I will keep writing my latest story, as best as I can, and also trying to come up with sufficiently different looks for each team listed above, at least, in terms of creative endeavors of mine, for sure. Of course, if you have better suggestions for the teams mentioned above, in terms of team names, please feel free to suggest them, as long as they've most likely not been used before by real teams, and might still be plausible enough for teams in their locations or areas, folks.

That's enough to mention here in this post, at least, I think. Thanks for dropping by this thread again, Eugene. I've missed you commenting in it for a while. Hope you and yours are well, of course, as well. CD out.

[Eugene Church]

The Fourteeners are OK... you coordinated the colors better than you usually do... the Dark Blue, Light Blue and Tan look pretty good... the design is creative with the horizontal lines and the mountain... but the mountain looks like a poor drawing.

Don't like the nickname.

What is a 14'er?

[Eugene Church]

Originally Posted by Clovidequano Dovatha

What do you think of the Fourteeners' items so far? Won't do any for the Great Plains Bisons, because I'll use low's items for them.

I still have to make uniforms for teams in Portland, San Diego, Seattle, Texas, Toronto, and Washington, DC. I have colors picked out for them, but no uniforms made yet. I do not have a team name in mind yet for San Diego, but I do know that I don't want to use one of the usual names for teams from there. I would like to use a name that fits the locale, but isn't one that has been used before.

So far, I've worked out the following team names and locations for a prospective league, most likely for at least my Turtle Pilgrim 001 dynasty, if not others as well:

Arizona Canyoneers (Probably in some town or city fairly close to the Grand Canyon)
Bay Area Spiders (Not sure where in the Bay Area I might want to put them, but don't really want to use San Francisco, San Jose, or Oakland, at least, for their home location)
Boston Brainiacs (Boston, or somewhere nearby for home park location)
California Lords (In or around Los Angeles area, if not either in Anaheim or Los Angeles proper)
Chicago Urban Cowboys (Chicago metro area)
Colorado Fourteeners (Somewhere in Colorado, but not Denver, location TBD)
Detroit Assemblers (Somewhere near where many of the automakers operate from)
Florida Launchers (Probably somewhere near Cape Canaveral, not sure where yet)
Great Plains Bisons (Lincoln, Omaha, other cities under consideration at the moment)
Imperial Garden Enforcers (Somewhere in the New York/New Jersey area, especially near New York City)
Milwaukee Cyclers (Milwaukee area)
Minnesota Nocturnauts (Somewhere in northeast Minnesota, Duluth possibility)
Missouri Show-Mes (Jefferson City and Columbia under consideration)
Nashville Diamonds (Nashville area)
New Orleans Bayous (New Orleans area)
Ohio Swallowtails (Columbus area likely when team created)
Pennsylvania Keystoners (Philadelphia most likely, Harrisburg and Pittsburgh may see games periodically)
Portland Buckaroos (Portland area in Oregon)
San Diego ? (San Diego area, and north of border)
Seattle Slammers (Seattle area)
Texas Border Patrol or Border Patrollers (El Paso, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Dallas may see games, or various border cities)
Toronto Aeros (Toronto area)
Washington Swamp Rats or Beltway Belters (Washington, DC area, perhaps including places in Maryland or Virginia for certain games)

I don't know how the teams will be divided up yet, exactly, but I envision two subleagues with two divisions of six teams each, when the necessary league is created with them in it. I also do not have names for the potential league or subleagues or divisions yet, either. But those will probably come in time, eventually. Lord willing, of course, that is.

In the meantime, I will keep writing my latest story, as best as I can, and also trying to come up with sufficiently different looks for each team listed above, at least, in terms of creative endeavors of mine, for sure. Of course, if you have better suggestions for the teams mentioned above, in terms of team names, please feel free to suggest them, as long as they've most likely not been used before by real teams, and might still be plausible enough for teams in their locations or areas, folks.

That's enough to mention here in this post, at least, I think. Thanks for dropping by this thread again, Eugene. I've missed you commenting in it for a while. Hope you and yours are well, of course, as well. CD out.

Sorry, CD... t wouldn't be much help to you... our tastes are too different as far as team nicknames are concerned... I don't think you would use my suggestions.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Originally Posted by Eugene Church

The Fourteeners are OK... you coordinated the colors better than you usually do... the Dark Blue, Light Blue and Tan look pretty good... the design is creative with the horizontal lines and the mountain... but the mountain looks like a poor drawing.

Don't like the nickname.

What is a 14'er?

Please see here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteener

There was a team called the Colorado 14'ers some time back, in basketball, I think. They are now called the Texas Legends. Please see here for more information:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Legends

As far as the appearance of the mountain on both uniforms and the peaks hidden inside those mountains, I tried to do my best, and even tried to use negative space while doing so, as best as I can. As you know, I'm clearly not as artistically skilled in certain ways as many others here might be, Eugene. Of course, if anyone thinks they can do better, they're welcome to suggest or create better versions of what I've already produced here for them.

As far as the team names chosen for various locations, I tried to have some original concept ideas that would be reasonably plausible for teams in those areas/locales, that weren't necessarily well-known or previously used by most, if not all, teams in the past and present.

For instance, Arizona has the Grand Canyon, and I don't see many teams referencing it in their team nicknames.

For the Bay Area, I was thinking that a lot of the technology companies are based in that area of the country, especially those connected to the development of and providing servers for the Internet.

Boston, I thought of several well-known and famous institutions of learning in that area of the US. Harvard, MIT, et cetera, most often came to mind for me, most likely, so I thought Brainiacs might be a good team name.

For California, I remembered there was once a football team called the Dons in and around Los Angeles, not to mention Dons is or at least was the name of certain college teams for a school in San Francisco. Don is essentially a noble term in certain European countries which had or do have monarchs ruling and reigning over them, especially in places like Spain, for example. Don is the Spanish equivalent of the term Lord, hence California's team name here.

Chicago is a major urban center. It also has strong ties to cattle and other similar animals, in various ways. So I thought that the nickname of Urban Cowboys might somehow be appropriate here, at least a little.

After some thought, I thought that Fourteeners AKA 14ers would most likely be the best possible name I could use for a team in Colorado here. Other names I might have been considering for the team and may yet consider further are the Ascent, the Summits, the Double-Miles, among others. But of the team name ideas I had for them, I still think the Fourteeners are probably the best of them I can think of at the present time. Especially seeing as Colorado is entirely located no less than 1,000 feet above sea level, and has so many mountain peaks over 14,000 feet in altitude.

Detroit, I thought mainly of the automaking industry there, with a little consideration of the music scene there. But the cars won out here. I didn't want to go with Motors or Gears or any of the usual automotive-themed ideas that people might see, but I didn't want to go too far away from that sort of idea. So I thought of those who make the cars, and how they're often produced. Hence the Assembly Line idea or the workers on them, which yielded the Assemblers and Assembly Liners potential team nicknames.

Florida, I wanted to try to combine certain colors for several known Florida teams, especially the Marlins and the Devil Rays/Rays, but wanted to try and highlight another thing that Florida has long been known for. That thing is the fact that many rocket launches have taken place over the years, not only of unmanned rockets and probes and all, but also of many manned flights. I thought of perhaps using Shuttles or Probes or similar names as the team name, but Launchers still has stuck with me the best so far.

There used to be a lot of Bisons on the Great Plains a long time ago, but I didn't want to necessarily tie down this team to just one specific city. So I decided to call them the Great Plains Bisons, after being unable to think of anything else that might be appropriate enough for a team based there.

Milwaukee, I wanted to reference the fact that the motorcycle industry mainly started in and around the Milwaukee area, if memory serves, and especially because Harley-Davidson is still basically based there, and has been there for ages. Also, I wanted to somehow reference their baseball history, without necessarily mentioning the Brewers and/or Braves' times there. Hence the use of the term Cyclers as a two-sense team nickname for them, seeing as many baseball players collect cycles, and many motorcycles have been and still are produced in and around that area of the US.

Minnesota was a bit more challenging to come up with a name for, even though I've spent all but maybe about seven years of my life living in various areas of it, even until now. I wanted to somehow reference the water, and the nights, and the woods/forests here, at least, if I could, with the team name. And also the skies here, to a degree, as well, come to think of it. The name Minnesota means, if memory serves, "sky-tinted water," in at least one American Indian/Native American language around here. Hence the lighter blue color, both to represent the sky and the water as they often are here. The green is for the woods/forests around here. While the purplish-pink color represents the night and/or the hills/mountains present in this state.

As far as the Missouri Show-Mes, I wanted to use Cardinals and Royals-related colors, and perhaps also reference the agriculture present in the state. Also, my birth state's nickname is the Show-Me State, and I wanted to reference that as well, without leaning too far towards either St. Louis or Kansas City in terms of the team's nickname. I was considering, and may still consider, the idea of calling the team the Investigators, but I'm still leaning towards calling them the Show-Mes, if and when I ever create this prospective league.

As for the Imperial Garden Enforcers, I thought at least partly of the state nicknames of New York and New Jersey, which are the Empire State and the Garden State, respectively. Like with Missouri, I didn't want to necessarily favor one state or city over another, with the team name, too much, so I decided to use the Imperial Garden name for their area designation. I also remembered that there was a team called the New York Enforcers in the World Skating League about twenty years ago, so I took some inspiration from that. Also, I wanted a strong team nickname for the team, so Enforcers came to mind for me, and also there are probably other connotations for the term Enforcers that could be considered here. Their colors were chosen at least in part based on the team colors of many teams in the New York/New Jersey area of the USA, including the Dodgers, the baseball Giants, and the Mets, to name a few such teams. I used at least one site to get the color codes and perhaps blend a couple of colors together, I think, to yield the colors ultimately used for them.

For New Orleans, I may have consulted a couple of sites, and used them to come up with the colors for the Bayous. I was considering the names Bayou Boys and Bayouneers, but they didn't look suitably good on the uniform or uniforms I've made so far for them, or at least they haven't yet. I will probably need to work on them more later, as time permits and all. I didn't want to use a number of the usual team names for this team, because I might want to use those names for other teams in other leagues, even for the aforementioned dynasty.

Nashville, I wanted to come up with an original enough idea for, and hopefully one that could relate to baseball along with something else, and perhaps not necessarily reuse a common team identity for teams from there or its state. Hence the Diamonds identity idea. I'm probably going to have to continue working on that team more along the way, of course, you know.

Ohio and Pennsylvania, I'm going to be re-using ideas I have already made or had made for me, as best as possible. Ohio's state flag is a swallow-tailed pennant, hence the team name there, and the name also references the bird called a swallowtail, for that matter. Pennsylvania's called the Keystone State, and it also has multiple meanings that could be inferred from the term. Second base is the keystone sack, and I think Pennsylvania was either the second or the third state to originally ratify the Constitution of the United States a very long time ago, if memory serves, as well.

As for Portland, they once had a team in some sport called the Buckaroos, and I definitely considered reusing any number of team names that have been used there, but of all them, I'm leaning towards using Buckaroos, which has been rarely used by any teams in that part of Oregon, if memory serves. Especially seeing as I might use other common team names for teams in Portland in various leagues and all, of course.

San Diego, I'm a bit undecided on what names might fit best for a team in the area that haven't yet been used or have rarely been used for teams in it. I'd prefer an unused name that still seems plausible and logical enough for a team in that place or that area of California, if possible, for sure.

I was doing some research on Wikipedia about Seattle and the area around it, and I saw something related to poetry-related competitions, such as poetry slams, for instance, and I thought it could also tie in well with baseball, seeing as we periodically see slams in games, especially grand slams. I thought of using Sounders, but soon rejected that, and was considering Flyers or similar name concepts, until I saw something about poetry and slams being linked together. I thought the connection was interesting, so may try to see what I can come up with for looks using the team nickname Slammers for this prospective team.

Texas, I was thinking since it is a border state in these here United States, that Border Patrol or Border Patrollers might be a good team nickname for a team from there. I'm not totally set on either of those potential names, but am leaning strongly towards using one of them for the team, if and when it's ever created for the applicable league in the future.

Toronto, they had a hockey team called the Aeros a while back, and Toronto has other connections to Canadian aerospace-type things, so I'll probably reuse that team name, not finding any other ones which I might find more appropriate here at this time, at least. Of course, much could still change for a prospective Toronto-area team in this potential league between now and league creation, you know.

As for Washington, I wanted to reference other potential ideas related to them or the area within what many call the Beltway, hence the potential team nicknames at this point of the Washington Swamp Rats or the Beltway Belters. Belters could easily refer to power hitters, for example, while Swamp Rats could reference something else entirely, of course.

Just wanted to share my thought processes here for these prospective teams with you and/or anyone else who might be interested in them here, Eugene. Of course, any or all of the listed nicknames for the relevant teams could certainly change anytime in the future, but for now, at least, for all but one of the teams, I've been able to come up with some ideas that are hopefully plausible enough for the areas in question where those teams might eventually play later on.

Thank you for your input and all, of course, as always, Eugene. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

As you can see, of the above locations, Eugene, I have potential team names in mind for all locales listed except for San Diego. I suppose I could do some more research, of course, but I've not yet settled on a potential team nickname for San Diego's prospective team in the relevant league. I don't want to use Aliens or Invaders or Clippers, for example, for them, and certain other team names are already in use or soon might be for various teams in certain leagues/dynasties of mine, or eventually will be in definite use in them.

I might want to use a name that might be influenced somehow by at least one of the known historical teams to date, but not directly reference them or be tied in with them, when it comes to the potential future San Diego-based baseball team in the relevant league(s)/dynasty(ies), you see. But I still haven't come up with any names I think I can live with well enough at the present time, unfortunately.

As far as the colors and/or looks for the other teams not yet with posted uniforms and all, you'll just have to wait and see what I come up with, of course. Hopefully they'll work well with the applicable team names, somehow, but if not, I'll keep working on the colors I might use for them, et cetera, for sure. Thank you for your input and all, as always. Please do take care, my dear friend. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

As for Montreal, they have a major theatrical presence, in terms of stageplays and all, so I wanted to reference that. I also considered calling them the Jazz, but ultimately decided not to, upon further consideration, and after reading more about Montreal and the surrounding area. I have considered several other team nickname options for Montreal, as well. But at the moment, I think I'm leaning most towards calling the Montreal team in this prospective league the Playwrights. And I wanted to perhaps do a little wordplay here too, if I could, with Montreal's team name, after thinking of the name Playwrights for them. Sound it out, and you might be able to figure out what I might be talking about here, Eugene.

I do try to do wordplay at times, although I may not always be the best at it, I admit, in certain cases. Whether in my stories or not, I'm not always the best when it comes to such things. Or any number of other things I try to do at times in my stories or other projects of various kinds, for that matter.

I'm hoping I can finish writing the current chapter within the next couple of weeks at the latest, but we'll have to see when chapter eight is done. It will require some use of French, at least, and I'm not exactly all that fluent in it, or at least not as of yet, unfortunately. So I will require help from at least one other source to finish the current chapter, at least.

I have at least a general idea of where I want the story to go, and how I want it to end up, once I'm finally to a final-draft state for it. But a final-draft state for the entire story is probably at least a year or two away, if not longer, I think. Lord willing, of course, that is. I am currently expecting at least 25 chapters for it, but am still only in chapter eight for it. And it periodically gives me fits at times, in certain ways, of course. But if it's the Lord's will it gets done, I'm sure it will get there eventually, of course.

Hope you and yours are well, Eugene. Will write more later, I'm sure, if and when I can. CD out.

[progen]

Like the Assemblers uniforms. Nice job!

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Some new uniforms for the Portland Buckaroos. They will probably need more work done on them, and certainly need some other items as well, of course, but here's what I have so far for them, to be sure. I don't know when they might be created for sure, just yet, obviously, but I wouldn't look for them in any dynasties not up to at least the 1931 season, if they didn't or don't start then or later on. Hope you like them, folks. That is all. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Some new uniforms for the Toronto Aeros, once a real hockey team, I believe, but this is my baseball-style version of them. These are presented a bit out of planned order of teams in a prospective future league, in truth. Still, I'm posting some uniforms for Toronto now here. The colors aren't exactly the same as they used in reality, and the logo or logos they will have for my version of them will be colored and wordmarked differently, et cetera, for sure.

These will possibly have to be worked on more later, just like other teams' items, of course. But here's what I still have for them at present, at least in terms of uniforms. Hope you like them, folks. That is all. CD out.

[Eugene Church]

Originally Posted by Clovidequano Dovatha

Some new uniforms for the Toronto Aeros, once a real hockey team, I believe, but this is my baseball-style version of them. These are presented a bit out of planned order of teams in a prospective future league, in truth. Still, I'm posting some uniforms for Toronto now here. The colors aren't exactly the same as they used in reality, and the logo or logos they will have for my version of them will be colored and wordmarked differently, et cetera, for sure.

These will possibly have to be worked on more later, just like other teams' items, of course. But here's what I still have for them at present, at least in terms of uniforms. Hope you like them, folks. That is all. CD out.

CD, Toronto is well done... the colors are well-coordinated and look good together... nice font... and the lettering has good contrast... and that is a good nickname.

You done good!