Talk:History of the Pittsburgh Pirates

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"Official" name
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 * Although the Alleghenys were never found guilty of wrongdoing, they made sport of being denounced for being "piratical" by renaming themselves "the Pirates" for the 1891 season.[2] The nickname was first acknowledged on the team's uniforms in 1912. Around the time the team adopted the Pirates nickname, the United States Board on Geographic Names forced the city of Pittsburgh to undergo a controversial name change by having them drop the "h" at the end of the name, making the team's official name the "Pittsburg Pirates" from the adoption of the Pirates nickname until Pittsburgh was able to get the "h" restored to its name in 1911.

I would object to the phrase "team's official name" as used here; the Pittsburg(h) club (like many at the time) had no official name, in any of the ways in which a franchise can be considered to have adopted a name officially, until "Pirates" appeared on the uniforms in 1912: not on signage, letterhead, company documents, tickets, programs or anything else put out in a tangible form by the club to identify themselves as "Pirates." The fact that sportwriters or even players themselves may have used the nickname informally no more makes it an official name than such longstanding examples as Bums, Redbirds or Bronx Bombers. Solicitr (talk) 00:05, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

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Nimick sold to Kerr & Auten?
The current article reads: "William A. Nimick, who had purchased the team from Denny McKnight in 1887, was forced to sell the team to William Kerr and Phil Auten in 1891." Is that accurate? The Pittsburgh Dispatch reported that Nimick (who was part-owner) sold his share of the club to William Chase Temple. Phleg1 (talk) 22:11, 12 December 2019 (UTC)