Comment on "autism didn't exist back in my day"

• frog@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  In an official complaint, an AA official claimed the Alleghenys’ signing of Bierbauer was “piratical”.[12] This incident quickly accelerated into a schism between the leagues that contributed to the demise of the A.A. Although the Alleghenys were never found guilty of wrongdoing, their allegedly “piratical” act gained them the occasional nickname “Pirates” from newspapers around the country, starting in 1891. Within a few years, the nickname caught on with even Pittsburgh newspapers.[13] The nickname was first acknowledged on the team’s uniforms in 1912.

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