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Welcome to Chicago Black Sox Shirt & Hat Company. Please take a look around our unique site that combines Sport History and merchandise. We strongly suggest that you sign up for our eNewsletter, as we will be adding teams in different sports from different cities. Our eNewsletter will alert you to new teams added to the site, as well as the specials we'll be offering during our Grand Opening.

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The History of Nicknaming Baseball Teams Around the turn of the century, teams were often assigned nicknames by local sportswriters – rather than by the front offices of the teams themselves. This was before anyone in the front office recognized the potential value of a nickname to help market a team – and long before anyone in baseball recognized that money could be made from merchandise sales. Teams were identified on their uniforms simply by their home city – and, thus, sportswriters could attach any nickname they thought somehow fairly represented the team, its fans, or its home town. Thus: the Boston Beaneaters, the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers, the St. Paul Apostles, the Pittsburgh Pirates (for having managed to "pirate" a former star of the Philadelphia Athletics).

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