Talk:Baltimore Terrapins

Editorializing
I'm removing the sentence "This precedent set in this case has not been deemed to extend to other U.S. professional sports, making it seemingly both anamolous and anachronistic, as major league baseball is now a multi-billion dollar industry, but later Supreme Court decisions have failed to overturn the precedent, nor has Congress acted to change the situation." Not only is this an editorial statement, the opinion of the writer, but it's not entirely accurate - the NFL has at least some antitrust exemption.  SixFourThree (talk) 21:21, 18 April 2008 (UTC)SixFourThree

Baltimore Terrapin name

 * Most of the professional baseball teams in Baltimore have been called the Orioles, in reference to the Baltimore Oriole bird.

It would be valuable to learn and add whether "Baltimore Terrapin" was then the common name for a species, at least regionally, as Baltimore Oriole was the common name for a bird species, standardized beyond the region. (The bird has lost its status as a species.) Alternatively, was "Baltimore Terrapin" then a common name for that dinner dish which Fannie Farmer put in the 1918 edition of her text on cooking under the name Terrapin a la Baltimore. Fannie Farmer's Baltimore Terrapin (search "Washington Terrapin") --P64 (talk) 19:31, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Read about the Diamondback terrapin and that will probably answer your question. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 19:51, 6 July 2010 (UTC)