122 Franchises Ranked Bottom to Top:

[Russell Jaslow]

This is true, most MLB played around with the nicknames during the dead ball era.

The Yankees did start off as the Baltimore Orioles, New York was blocked from entering the American League thanks to John McGraw and the New York Giants. A deal was made before the 1903 to move the team to New York. As the Highlanders, they played at Hilltop Park which was the highest elevation in Manhattan. The media still referred to the team as the Yanks, because it was easier on the eyes than Highlanders. In 1913, the team moved to the Polo Grounds, hence the Highlander name was irrelevant and Yankees became official.

I thought newspapers used Yanks because the shorter name was easier for headlines.

 

[mookie1995]

Re: 122 Franchises Ranked Bottom to Top:

All kidding aside, someone once pointed out to me how people in early photographs never smiled. And he’s right. Heck, just look at your old, old family photos from the early 1900s. I bet nobody is smiling in them. All serious faces. It’s just the way they posed back then.

while smile when you had no black friends to hang with

 

[Slap Shot]

Re: 122 Franchises Ranked Bottom to Top:

The Yankees would have been #2 if not for the fortune of facing the Twins in the playoffs eleventeen times the past decade+.

 

[Ralph Baer]

Re: 122 Franchises Ranked Bottom to Top:

All kidding aside, someone once pointed out to me how people in early photographs never smiled. And he’s right. Heck, just look at your old, old family photos from the early 1900s. I bet nobody is smiling in them. All serious faces. It’s just the way they posed back then.

I thought that people didn't smile in old photos because long exposure times were needed.

 

[The Rube]

Re: 122 Franchises Ranked Bottom to Top:

I thought that people didn't smile in old photos because long exposure times were needed.

^^^^^^^

 

[Russell Jaslow]

I thought that people didn't smile in old photos because long exposure times were needed.

I never thought about that. Makes sense.

Another mystery in my life solved.

 

[Spartanforlife4]

Re: 122 Franchises Ranked Bottom to Top:

I thought that people didn't smile in old photos because long exposure times were needed.

I've read that it was because the traditional picture before that was the portrait painting, in which very few smiled.

 

[Kepler]

Re: 122 Franchises Ranked Bottom to Top:

I thought that people didn't smile in old photos because long exposure times were needed.

That's what I've read; I don't know whether it's just a myth.

 

[Kepler]

Re: 122 Franchises Ranked Bottom to Top:

I've read that it was because the traditional picture before that was the portrait painting, in which very few smiled.

For the same reason.

 

[Slap Shot]

Re: 122 Franchises Ranked Bottom to Top:

I've read that it was because the traditional picture before that was the portrait painting, in which very few smiled.

I've understood this to be the bigger reason as exposure times were greatly reduced by the mid- to late 1800's making that reason mostly obsolete.

 

[CommAvHusky]

Re: 122 Franchises Ranked Bottom to Top:

I thought newspapers used Yanks because the shorter name was easier for headlines.

that too