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While the APBL was busy expanding and the NBBO was treading water, a bunch of the now semi-pro teams decided to get on the nickname bandwagon and no less than half of the 48 teams changed their names during the 1870s and 1880s.
The changes:
Auburn Base Ball Club --> Auburn Woodsmen
Binghamton Base Ball Club --> Binghamton Blue Jays
Diamond State B.C. --> Delaware Diamonds
Eagle Base Ball Club --> Elmira Golden Eagles
Gotham Base Ball Club --> Gotham Red Stockings
Granite Baseball Club --> New Hampshire White Pines
Green Mountain B.C. --> Vermont Green Stockings
Hilltop B.B.C. of Yonkers --> Yonkers Hilltoppers
Lake Erie B.C. --> Erie Lakers
Lancastra Britannia B.C. --> Lancaster Dukes
Merrimack Mills B.C. --> Lowell Textile Kings
Minuteman Base Ball Club --> Albany Minutemen
Oceanic Baseball Club --> Hartford Whalers
Pioneer Baseball Club --> Springfield Pioneers
Portland Baseball Club --> Portland Mariners
Quinnipiac Baseball Club --> Quinnipiac Elms
Reading Athletic Club --> Reading Athletics
Scranton Baseball Club --> Scranton Steamers
Sportsman's Baseball Club --> Fall River Marksmen
Susquehanna Baseball Club --> Wilkes-Barre Coal Barons
Syracuse Base Ball Club --> Syracuse Emeralds
Trenton United B.B.C. --> Trenton Ironclads
Utica Base Ball Club --> Utica Stompers
Victory Base Ball Club --> Troy Warriors
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