# Minor League Baseball Team Nicknames

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-league-baseball-team-nicknames/14247>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 1, 2000, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-league-baseball-team-nicknames/14247 "2000-03-01T19:58:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Kepi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kepi/32/7251_2.png) [@Kepi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kepi)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-league-baseball-team-nicknames/14247/21 "2000-03-02T16:14:00Z")

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Hey Max!

Guns up from a fellow Techsan!

I got a couple of questions for you. 1) Where do the Cotton Kings play their games, the Lubbock Coliseum or the new United Spirit Areana? 2)Which league did the Crickets play in, and do you know if the whole league folded or just the Crickets?

OK. So maybe technically that was three questions.

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**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-league-baseball-team-nicknames/14247/22 "2000-03-02T16:43:00Z")

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The Altoona Curve, a team here in central PA. Apparently a pun of somesort involving this area’s railroad history, The team mascot is a railroad engine’s smokestack.  
Affectionately known by my children as The Altoona Melt. Actually, they have a very nice ballpark with a small amusement park situated beside it.

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This life is a test. It is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instructions on where to go and what to do.

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**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2000, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-league-baseball-team-nicknames/14247/23 "2000-03-03T00:40:00Z")

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The baseball team here has a pretty lame name (The Eugene Emeralds), but the womens’ softball team are the Eugene Debs, which never ceases to amuse me.

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**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2000, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-league-baseball-team-nicknames/14247/24 "2000-03-03T01:17:00Z")

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Kepi:

You’re not still in Lubbock, I take it? Don’t blame you…wind’s been insane the past few days. Anyway…

1. The Cotton Kings play in the Coliseum; the new arena’s pretty strictly for basketball and special events.

2. They played in the [Texas-Louisiana League](http://www.txproball.com/home.shtml), which is still in existence. It was just the team that folded.

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**Author:** ![JamesCarroll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@JamesCarroll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JamesCarroll)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2000, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minor-league-baseball-team-nicknames/14247/25 "2000-03-03T06:49:00Z")

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Come on, let’s hear it for the Wilmington (DE) Blue Rocks. Carolina League champions and winners af the PRESTIGIOUS FREITAS AWARD!! [www.bluerocks.com](http://www.bluerocks.com) As for where it coems from your guess is as good as mine.

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