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and was so listed in the standings; for example the
Atlantic Base Ball Club, which was located in Brooklyn. Rather than "Brooklyn Atlantics", the team was simply called "Atlantic", or "Atlantic of Brooklyn" if deemed necessary by the writer. Another common practice was to refer to the team in the plural, hence the "Bostons" the "Chicagos" or the "Mutuals". Frequently sportswriters would apply a creative pseudonym to call the team by in newspaper articles, often using one with something to do with the team colors, such as the Red Stockings or Red Caps (Boston), White Stockings (Chicago), Green Stockings (Mutual of New York), and Canaries (the yellow-uniformed Lord Baltimore).
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Professional baseball clubs in the 19th century were often known by what is now regarded as a "nickname", although it was actually the club's name. This was a practice carried over from the amateur days. The singular form of a "nickname" was often the team name itself, with its base city "understood"
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In 1969, Major League
Baseball's newly formed Special Baseball Records Committee decided that the National Association should be excluded from major league status, citing the association's "erratic schedule and procedures" as well as a history of gambling and "poor newspaper coverage". Thus, when the
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were the first team to declare their desire to become fully professional. Other teams quickly followed suit. By 1871, several clubs, wanting to separate fully from the amateur association, broke away to found the
National Association of Professional Base Ball Players. (The remaining amateur clubs
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includes players' National
Association statistics in their major league totals; Nemec states that his compendium "is not bound by major league baseball's decision to treat its statistics separately", points out that "the National Association contained most of the best professional players of its
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writer Marc
Onigman argued that the NA should be included in the major leagues, despite its acknowledged flaws, pointing out the same flaws existed in other leagues as well, and called the Committee's decision "a modern-day value judgment that doesn't hold up". The committee's decision has been
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also registered their disagreement with the NA's exclusion, arguing that the NA "was indisputably the Major League
Baseball of its day", but they nevertheless decided not to combine their NA records with later leagues, to avoid confusing conflicts with totals shown in the "official records".
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Several factors limited the lifespan of the
National Association including dominance by a single team (Boston) for most of the league's existence, instability of franchises as several were placed in cities too small to financially support professional baseball, lack of central authority, and
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do not recognize it as a major league, but the NA comprised most of the professional clubs and the highest caliber of play then in existence. Its players, managers, and umpires are included among the "major leaguers" who define the scope within baseball references such as
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Special Baseball Records Committee's decision has faced continuing criticism. Oft-cited arguments in favor of the National Association are its status as the first fully professional baseball league, the fact that several of its teams continued on as part of the
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attempted to retrofit the names into a modern context. In the following list, the bold names are the names most often used by contemporary newspapers in league standings, and the linked names after them are those typically ascribed to the teams now, using the
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finished in fourth place (based on their win total), while recording the second-best winning percentage. The NA did not have a postseason; champions were determined by final standings at the end of the season.
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founded the
National Association of Amateur Base Ball Players, which only lasted two years). In 1876, wanting an even stronger central organization, six clubs from the NA and two independents established the
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when it was founded in 1876, and the much more complete state of
National Association records today than they were in 1969, thanks to research efforts by a number of baseball historians. In 1982,
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Whether to cover the NA as a major league is a recurring matter of difference in historical work on American baseball among historians, encyclopedists, database builders, and others.
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1589:Jefferson (NC): McFarland & Company, 1999.
1575:Jefferson (NC): McFarland & Company, 1991.
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2904:Panamanian Professional Baseball League
2899:Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League
2854:Venezuelan Professional Baseball League
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514:Society for American Baseball Research
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1667:The Business of Professional Baseball
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361:World Baseball Softball Confederation
3295:Chinese Professional Baseball League
3277:Chinese Professional Baseball League
2894:Curaçao Professional Baseball League
422:European Baseball Championship Women
391:South American Baseball Championship
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3507:Triple-A National Championship Game
1821:The 2007 ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia
1782:Kepner, Tyler (December 16, 2020).
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3015:List of defunct minor leagues
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3107:Nippon Professional Baseball
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823:Major league status question
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780:Cincinnati Red Stockings
766:, founded 1901) to form
200:1845 to 1868 in baseball
155:United States of America
3393:Honkbal Overgangsklasse
3350:Italian Baseball League
3160:Miyazaki Phoenix League
2803:Venezuelan Major League
2692:Dominican Summer League
2413:St. Louis Red Stockings
2243:Chicago White Stockings
1163:St. Louis Red Stockings
951:Chicago White Stockings
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427:European Cup (baseball)
175:Part of a series on the
62:more precise citations.
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2909:Veracruz Winter League
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2697:Florida Complex League
2687:Arizona Complex League
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1093:Madison Avenue Grounds
991:Philadelphia Athletics
961:Cleveland Forest Citys
912:Philadelphia Athletics
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3411:Honkbal Rookie League
2948:Negro league baseball
2766:Cuban National Series
2758:Non-partnered leagues
2637:South Atlantic League
2531:Major League Baseball
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2373:Middletown Mansfields
2278:Philadelphia Athletic
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1001:Rockford Forest Citys
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768:Major League Baseball
509:Baseball Hall of Fame
479:Negro league baseball
455:Major League Baseball
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2991:National Association
2938:American Association
2786:Liga Norte de México
2728:American Association
2667:Florida State League
2577:Pacific Coast League
2572:International League
2445:Washington Nationals
2437:Washington Blue Legs
2429:Washington Nationals
2357:Fort Wayne Kekiongas
2235:Boston Red Stockings
1864:on October 10, 2017.
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1291:Boston Red Stockings
1274:Boston Red Stockings
1252:Boston Red Stockings
1079:Washington Blue Legs
1075:Washington Nationals
971:Fort Wayne Kekiongas
941:Boston Red Stockings
789:Boston Red Stockings
740:National Association
503:(documentary series)
220:Alexander Cartwright
164:Boston Red Stockings
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3375:Honkbal Hoofdklasse
3313:Taiwan Major League
2834:Arizona Fall League
2798:United Shore League
2720:MLB Partner Leagues
2453:Washington Olympics
2381:New Haven Elm Citys
2349:Elizabeth Resolutes
2333:Eckford of Brooklyn
2317:Baltimore Marylands
2262:Hartford Dark Blues
1825:Sterling Publishing
1665:Paul D. Staudohar,
1422:NA lifetime leaders
1143:New Haven Elm Citys
1123:Hartford Dark Blues
1113:Elizabeth Resolutes
1089:Baltimore Marylands
1025:Washington Olympics
914:" was shown in the
494:Baseball color line
205:Knickerbocker Rules
181:History of baseball
111:March 17, 1871
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3248:KBO Futures League
2981:Continental League
2889:Cuban Elite League
2325:Brooklyn Atlantics
2309:Baltimore Canaries
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1788:The New York Times
1766:Excerpts available
1706:Sports Illustrated
1683:Excerpts available
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