Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 09:10:26 EST

From: Bapopik Bapopik[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM

Subject: Titanic; Yannigan; Double Squeeze; Barnstormer; Hit-and-Run; et al.



TITANIC



SPORTING LIFE, 9 September 1905, pg. 3, col. 1, has the headline:



THE TITANIC FIGHT

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WILL BE BETWEEN THE GIANTS

AND ATHLETICS.



While New York had its baseball Giants, it did not have baseball Titans.

The New York Titans was a football franchise from 1960 to 1963 that later was

renamed the New York Jets.

In fact, according to Peter Filichia's PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL FRANCHISES

(From the Abbeville Athletics to the Zanesville Indians), baseball didn't have

"Titans" anywhere!

By contrast, 95 teams were called "Giants." It is the most popular team

name, if you don't add "Red" to its variants (Reds, Red Stockings, Red Sox,

Redlegs, Red Birds, Red Barons, Red Wings, Red Devils, et al.).



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