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Originally Posted by deweyinthehall
Actually no - the club originated as a minor league team in Grand Rapids in the 1890s.
But, to the point I think you're trying to make - if Topps traditionally listed the Red Sox as merely "Boston", the Padres as "San Diego" and so forth, I wouldn't have a concern.
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Yes, it's an inconsistency to play the PC game. We should do this to every team, few of them survive a PC check if one look to be offended.
The Trolley Dodgers is offensive to the mobile impaired.
The Padres are offensive to non-Christian identifying individuals.
The Giants are offensive to the vertically challenged.
The Reds are offensive to the colorblind.
The Astros are offensive because after their original was changed for not being PC, they named themselves for the space initiative, which was partially the work of former Nazi scientists.
The Texas Rangers (baseball team) are offensive because the Texas Rangers (law enforcement) were racist long ago.
The Pirates are offensive because pirates stole, murdered and raped people.
The Nationals are offensive because American nationalism is evil and racist.
Change all the team names, and remove these offensive words from the baseball cards. We shouldn't use the city names either though, many of those are offensive too. Step it up Topps, change the words before others do, be the leaders instead of the followers in improving the world.