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From: rkolker@netxcom.UUCP (Rick Kolker)
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia
Subject: Re: More sports Trivia
Message-ID: <201@netxcom.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Nov-86 13:38:53 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 25 13:38:53 1986
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In article <1328@bunker.UUCP> rha@bunker.UUCP (Robert H. Averack) writes:
>In article <194@netxcom.UUCP> rkolker@netxcom.UUCP (Rick Kolker) writes:
>>How about this?
>>
>>There were teams in the original American League called the Milwaukee Brewers
>>and Baltimore Orioles.  Where are they now?
>
>     R U sure about this?  I think the original Brewers and Orioles were
>International League teams, farm clubs for the Chicago White Sox and the
>Boston Red Sox, respectively.  In fact, before joining the Red Sox in 1915,
>Babe Ruth played for his hometown Baltimore Orioles.
>
Not absolutely.  I heard it on a radio
talk show som,etime (with a third team I can't remember added.
The answers are (I think)  The Brewers moved to St. Louis and became the Browns,
later the Orioles (although the management forgets that)
The original Orioles became the Highlanders, later the
Yankees.  "moved" in this case may be a way of
saying "went broke and sold out".

Anyone know for sure?

>
>     As for the Boston Braves, yo no se.
>
I think (again, memory) the braves played in a bandbox known as the "Baker Bowl"
(or was that the Phila. A's's)
o
apologies for the typos, my terminal is sick



One new one...

Where did the New York Stars (later Charlotte Hornets) of the WFL play?
(in new york)

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