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According to the lore and mythology of the universe in which I play, the Chicago Bruins are the oldest currently active baseball team in the game. They were formed by the highly regarded Bruins Club way back in the 1870s, and, known as 'Bruins Club BBC (of Chicago)' were one of baseball's charter teams, (Sycamore BBC of Lexington was also on that list). Their name was whittled down to Chicago Bruins over the years, and now they're one of the cornerstones of my league. Which is why I'm so fond of them. If names for Chicago clubs are still being sought, though, I'd be remiss if I didn't at least mention 'Chicago Hitmen'. I imagine them as an arena football team in my universe, but it is one of the coolest names ever, I think. BRUINS LOGOS!!!! Love all three of these a LOT!!! The bottom one, (Mr. White), is most appropriate for my version of the team, at least in the present day, while both the other day seem like perfect fits for previous eras. Fantastic work on all these! Steve Sax, if you decide to hang tight with the Bru-Cru, I hope you enjoy them a lot. I really dig the team myself.
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Well I used the Oakland Oaks as one of the expansion teams. The other two teams I'm leaning towards having in Charlotte and Dallas. I don't have team names yet, I've got team name writers block it seems...
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Still think it's a good name though.
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09-28-2012, 06:14 PM | #246 |
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I use the Dallas Lone Stars in my fictional league
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Dallas Texans. I'd almost forgotten about that one. That's another name I had in the running for a Dallas-based ball club.
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Great names, there mates ...
As always, PW MAX ... love your creativeness and history with unique names ... forgot, at one time, the old Chicago Bruins were a member of the ABL, back in the 20's ... Dallas Texans and The Outlaws are usually my top picks ... Tomas
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"Well, you know... what can I say?"
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I love a lot of these. I liked Outlaws, Rebels, and Texans, but I'm going with Dallas Tycoons.
For Charlotte I'm going with the Flyers. PW sold me with these backgrounds. I wish I could come up with baseball lore like that! I like that Rebels name for a Richmond team. This thread just keeps making me want to add teams! |
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got a few requests
Birmingham Confederates Sierra Vista Monsoon Portland Moose Montpelier Salamanders |
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Dallas Stars is one I use.
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I was going for a lodge/National Park Poster feel with the first Moose font. The second one is SSS's favorite. Let me know if you want to see any changes.
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Choo-Choos look is outstanding.
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Wow you do such great work
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I'd like to be using these as well, if that's all right. They'll feel so... right... for Midway Field. Just feels like a perfect fit.
If requests are being taken, I could really use a logo in this style for a team called the New York Hawks. Technically, this is the same team I've also called 'Manhattan White Hawks' in the past. It's just that... well... when I put my teams in a list on paper, that 67-foot long name really stuck out like a sore thumb. I've since thought New York Hawks sounded much more organic, and in many ways, much more real. For curiosity's sake, the Hawks can be traced back to the old Empire City BBC of the 19th century. It's not a direct link, like the Bruins enjoy, but there are ties. Those ties come in the form of one Melis Rosenberg - not so affectionately known as 'Old Rosey' to most who knew him. As a player, he was an utterly mediocre back-up shortstop, but Empire City kept him around because of his razor-sharp business sense. He found a way to keep the team active, while other clubs were dropping like flies. Even if the other players didn't so much enjoy his not-so-charming personality, they appreciated his knack for keeping them employed. Eventually, Empire City did fail, and folks went on with their lives. A much older and much wiser Old Rosey founded the New York Metropolitans club long about 1892 or so. Using his freshly acquired wealth, he was able to build up a team that was dangerous from the very beginning, and many championships found their way to Manhattan under his watchful eye. By the time Old Rosey passed away, only the most dedicated of baseball historians remembered him as a player, but most knew him well as a business man. Under a much more penny-pinching regime, the Metropolitans became the Gothams in the 19-teens, and, like most everyone else, ran into some trouble once the Depression took root. They were purchased by William Sheepcote in 1931, (oddly, the English-born Sheepcote would become a symbol of the American spirit, and was a man so willfull and stubborn that when he was all but eaten alive with untreatable cancer in the 1940s, he "went out of his way" to die of a heart attack instead), the Gothams became the Hawks for the CBC's inaugural season in 1932, and began a brand new life in the spectacular EMPIRE Stadium. Today, EMPIRE Stadium is holy ground in the world of baseball, and features a visually stunning statue of a hawk with wings spread wide just beyond the centerfield wall. That centerfield is often compared to an abyss, and the player charged with fielding the position is often hailed as baseball's finest player, just because of the wide expanse of territory he has to cover. Few batters, they say, have a bat heavy enough to reach that centerfield wall, so the fact that the tip of the Hawk statue's beak was bent slightly by a Tommy Mathews home run some time in the 1950s is a very celebrated flaw. Sorry again for rambling on so long. Just that when I start writing it just kinda flows like a river. Also, I really like writing all this stuff, so the fact that a few of you seem to like reading it kinda fires up my inspiration a bit.
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