New League - need a bit of help please

Bluenoser · 06-22-2015, 12:40 PM

So I've got this idea for a new league I want to run.

I've taken the 5 boroughs of NYC, Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island, plus I'm adding a team in Jersey to make 6.

It'll be an independent league, players from State of NY only, 60 games with a custom schedule so I can go with 3 man rotation, and a bunch of other custom settings I like to do cause I'm such a nut for detail.

Anyway, I need a name for my Queens Team.

This is what I've got so far:

Bronx Bombers
Brooklyn Trolleys (open to suggestion but I like it already)
Manhattan Skyliners
Staten Island Sluggers
Jersey Pikemen
Queens ???

Was thinking Quakers, but not sure. Maybe someone who grew up or lived there for a while can give a suggestion?

The league will start in 1919, summer after WWI ends. So if there's something historical for the borough or Queens that would fit?

Thanks for any/all suggestions, much appreciated.

Once I have the league all setup with uni's/logos I'll make it available for any one who wishes a copy.

Assos · 06-22-2015, 12:44 PM

As someone raised in Queens and has a taste for history, Queens has a number of area that started out as Dutch villages like Maspeth and Flushing. Also, around that time, Flushing was basically the growing area for the city parks. Hence why residential neighborhoods are lush. Flushing Meadow Park was a big dump for the city before Staten Island.
Queens was very rural so think farming, nature, animals, wildness and in the 1920s, big houses on the Great Neck.

Padreman · 06-22-2015, 01:07 PM

Maybe later you can expand in Rochester Syracuse and Buffalo Newark

rigelstar · 06-22-2015, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Padreman

Maybe later you can expand in Rochester Syracuse and Buffalo Newark

If you do Ill gladly take the Rochester team if not Jersey will work as it was my home state growing up.

Cinnamon J. Scudworth · 06-22-2015, 07:24 PM

Pioneers, maybe? It could refer either to Queens being one of the original 12 counties of the New York colony, or to the idea that in the WWI/immediate post-war period, Queens was rapidly becoming connected to the wider NYC road, rail, and subway system and its population was increasing dramatically by the mid-'20s.

06-22-2015, 12:40 PM	#1
Bluenoser Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: In The Moment Posts: 13,680	New League - need a bit of help please So I've got this idea for a new league I want to run. I've taken the 5 boroughs of NYC, Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island, plus I'm adding a team in Jersey to make 6. It'll be an independent league, players from State of NY only, 60 games with a custom schedule so I can go with 3 man rotation, and a bunch of other custom settings I like to do cause I'm such a nut for detail. Anyway, I need a name for my Queens Team. This is what I've got so far: Bronx Bombers Brooklyn Trolleys (open to suggestion but I like it already) Manhattan Skyliners Staten Island Sluggers Jersey Pikemen Queens ??? Was thinking Quakers, but not sure. Maybe someone who grew up or lived there for a while can give a suggestion? The league will start in 1919, summer after WWI ends. So if there's something historical for the borough or Queens that would fit? Thanks for any/all suggestions, much appreciated. Once I have the league all setup with uni's/logos I'll make it available for any one who wishes a copy.

06-22-2015, 01:07 PM	#3
Padreman Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2013 Location: Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico (formally San Diego, CA.) Posts: 4,140 Blog Entries: 1	Maybe later you can expand in Rochester Syracuse and Buffalo Newark __________________ Chargers= Despicable Traitors

06-22-2015, 07:24 PM	#5
Cinnamon J. Scudworth All Star Starter Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 1,119	Pioneers, maybe? It could refer either to Queens being one of the original 12 counties of the New York colony, or to the idea that in the WWI/immediate post-war period, Queens was rapidly becoming connected to the wider NYC road, rail, and subway system and its population was increasing dramatically by the mid-'20s. __________________ "Sometimes, this is like going to a grocery store. You’ve got a list until you get to the check-out stand. And then you start reading People magazine, and all this other [stuff] ends up in the basket." -Sandy Alderson on the MLB offseason

06-22-2015, 12:44 PM	#2
Assos All Star Starter Join Date: May 2004 Location: Just on the fair side of the foul pole! Posts: 1,772	As someone raised in Queens and has a taste for history, Queens has a number of area that started out as Dutch villages like Maspeth and Flushing. Also, around that time, Flushing was basically the growing area for the city parks. Hence why residential neighborhoods are lush. Flushing Meadow Park was a big dump for the city before Staten Island. Queens was very rural so think farming, nature, animals, wildness and in the 1920s, big houses on the Great Neck.