The Nine Strangest Team Names in Minor League Baseball History
For about seventy years, almost every American town with a rail depot had a professional baseball team, and the nickname was whatever the local paper started calling it. Tomato Pickers, Undertakers, Swamp Angels, Looloos, Forked Deers, Pretzels: here are the nine strangest names on record, all of them real, and the story of where each one came from.