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==="Classic Eight"===
The eight-team lineup established in 1900 remained unchanged through 1952.  All franchises are still in the league, with five remaining in the same city.
* Boston (nicknamed at various times the "Red Stockings", "Red Caps", "Beaneaters" and "Doves", in 1912 named the Boston Braves, then Milwaukee Braves, now the [[Atlanta Braves]])
* Brooklyn (variously labeled the "Bridegrooms", "Grooms", "Superbas", "Robins", "Trolley Dodgers", and "Bums", later called the Brooklyn Dodgers, now the [[Los Angeles Dodgers]])
* Chicago (at first called by reporters the "White Stockings", then "Infants", "Colts", "Orphans", "Remnants" and by 1906 the [[Chicago Cubs]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mlb.mlb.com/chc/history/timeline01.jsp|title=Cubs Timeline}}</ref>
* [[Cincinnati Reds]] (shortened from early "Red Stockings")
* New York Giants (sometimes "Gothams" and occasionally "Maroons", now the [[San Francisco Giants]]. "Giants" was in general press usage as early as the 1885 season and is probably the oldest consistent nickname in baseball, depending on how one categorizes "Phillies")
* [[Philadelphia Phillies]] (variously "Quakers", "Nationals" and "Pearls." Their ultimate name was just a shortening of the conventional plural-form "Philadelphias.")
* [[Pittsburgh Pirates|Pittsburgh]] (founded in Allegheny, a Pittsburgh suburb at the time which has since been annexed by the city, then claimed Pittsburgh as their home city but continued to be referred to as before as "Alleghenys." After "pirating" a player from the Athletics in the Players League collapse in 1890 were tagged "Pirates" in the press.)
* [[St. Louis Cardinals|St. Louis]] (at various times "Brown Stockings", "Browns", "Red Stockings" and "Reds", and today officially the Cardinals and unofficially "Redbirds")