Hartford Chiefs
January 17, 2022
We’ve written about countless Minor League Baseball name changes here on Fun While It Lasted, but this may be the strangest circumstance for a re-brand that we’ve come across. From 1938 until 1952 Hartford, Connecticut served as the Class A farm club of the National League’s Boston Braves. But Hartford’s rival newspapers fell into a disagreement over the best name for city’s ballclub, with each choosing their own preferred name. Finally, Braves officials interceded in 1946 to create a consensus new identity: the Hartford Chiefs.
