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Posted By: Todd Schultz

according to "Batter-Up, A Century of Minnesota Baseball, by Ross Berenstein, the St. Paul team was the North Star Club in 1867, the "Red Caps" in the 1880's, the Apostles in the short-lived Union Assoication of 1884, and the independendent "Saints" in the early 1890's. The author notes "after the season, Comiskey bought the 1894 Western League Champion Sioux City Cornhuskers, and moved it to St. Paul--where he renamed it the Saints. They would still also be referred to the Apostles during this era as well". So draw your own conclusions I guess. I believe they are widely regarded by Minnesotan basbeall historians as the Saints though.