Baltimore Canaries [SEP] dissolved or abolished
Baltimore Canaries
The Baltimore Canaries were a professional baseball club in the National Association from 1872 to 1874.
History.
The team was usually listed as Lord Baltimore in the box scores of the day, and were also referred to as the Yellow Stockings. The canary and yellow stockings labels were in reference to their uniform colors.
Though visually striking, the club's uniforms were not necessarily universally acclaimed. The Chicago "Inter-Ocean" reporter, covering a game staged in Chicago on May 29, 1872,
) teams in Baltimore have been dubbed the "Orioles", with a few exceptions.
The earliest Baltimore teams, in the early 1870s, were called the "Lord Baltimores" and "Maryland" respectively. These clubs were short-lived. The "Lord Baltimores" team chose the unusual team color of yellow or a variation of gold, and was often called the Canaries or the Yellow Stockings. The Maryland club was simply called the "Marylands", in the pluralized style of the day. The names and