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Originally Posted by z28jd
BR did a massive update that didn't really need to be done and they made a ton of mistakes. They were basically 95% correct before the change, but now they are about 60% correct on early team names.
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I think that the names indicated now on BR better reflect how the hometown newspapers of the time referred to the teams, at least from about 1901 onwards. Sometimes, different papers used different names for the teams (such as Highlanders vs. Invaders for AL New York in 1903 and Browns vs. Ravens for AL St. Louis in 1906), but at least they eliminated the names that are not supported by the contemporary papers, such as dropping Beaneaters in favor of Nationals for NL Boston prior to 1907.