Longest Standing Team Monikers - Online Sportsbook Blog

Friday, March 17, 2006

Longest Standing Team Monikers

Wow, I found this today and was suprised with some of the teams and their names.

Team, Sport -- First year under current name
"Cincinnati Reds," baseball -- 1878
"Pittsburgh Pirates," baseball -- 1891
"St. Louis Cardinals," baseball -- 1900
"Detroit Tigers," baseball -- 1901
"Chicago Cubs," baseball -- 1902
"Chicago White Sox," baseball -- 1904
"Boston Red Sox," baseball -- 1907
"New York Yankees," baseball -- 1913
"Cleveland Indians," baseball -- 1915
"Montreal Canadiens," hockey -- 1917
"Green Bay Packers," football -- 1919
"Chicago Bears," football -- 1922
"New York Giants," football -- 1925


NOTE: Basketball's oldest names are the Boston Celtics and New York Knicks (both 1946).

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