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During their dynasty years in the 1970s, the A's had dozens of uniform combinations with jerseys and pants in all three team colors, and in fact did not wear the traditional gray on the road, instead wearing green or gold, which helped to contribute to their nickname of " The Swingin ' A's.
From 1972 through 1980, the team nickname was officially " Oakland A's ," although, during that time, the Commissioner's Trophy, given out annually to the winner of baseball's World Series, still listed the team's name as the " Oakland Athletics " on the gold-plated pennant representing the Oakland franchise.
" New owner Walter Haas restored the official name to " Athletics " in 1981, but retained the nickname " A's " for marketing purposes.
Charles O. Finley, owner of the Kansas City A's, gave Hunter the nickname " Catfish " in 1965 for no reason other than that he thought his new pitcher needed a flashy nickname.

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One well-known association the town has is with the ' Accrington Pals ', the nickname given to the smallest home town battalion of volunteers formed to fight in the first world war.
For years many sources have listed " Pilgrims " as the early Boston AL team's official nickname, but researcher Bill Nowlin has demonstrated that the name was barely used, if at all, during the team's early years.
A user often has a user account and is identified by a username ( also user name ), screen name ( also screenname ), nickname ( also nick ), or handle, which is derived from the identical Citizen's Band radio term.
Among some amateur astronomers, NGC 246 has garnered the nickname " Pac-Man Nebula " because of the arrangement of its central stars and the surrounding star field.
Since then it has been eroding, creating dramatic incised valleys, and providing the sediment that gives the Yellow River its yellow color and that causes the flooding of the river in the lower reaches ( hence the river's nickname ' China's sorrow ').
The story of Æthelred's notorious nickname, " Æthelred the Unready ", from Old English Æþelræd Unræd, goes a long way toward explaining how his reputation has declined through history.
The nickname has alternatively been taken adjectivally as " ill-advised ", " ill-prepared ", " indecisive ", thus " Æthelred the ill-advised ".
She has blue eyes like Gerald O ' Hara and Melanie gives her the nickname, " Bonnie Blue ," in reference to the Bonnie Blue Flag of the Confederacy.
Idaho's nickname is the " Gem State ", because nearly every known type of gemstone has been found here.
It has earned the praise of Pope Benedict XVI and the nickname " The Pope's Favorite Rabbi ".
During this time, he picked up the nickname " Black Jack ", which has been variously attributed to his dark hair and stubble, to his " ruthless " approach on the track, and to his " propensity for maintaining a shadowy silence ".
Because they were marked with the letter K ( for Voronezh Komintern Factory ), Red Army troops adopted a nickname from Mikhail Isakovsky's popular wartime song, " Katyusha ", about a girl longing for her absent beloved, who has gone away on military service.
Many assume his nickname is derived from KIBO, the acronym for Knowledge In, Bullshit Out, although Parry himself has repeatedly denied this.
The legendary monster has been affectionately referred to by the nickname Nessie () since the 1950s.
While the term " Mormon Church " has long been attached to the church as a nickname, it is an unauthorized title, and the Church's style guide says, " Please avoid the use of ' Mormon Church ', ' LDS Church ' or the ' Church of the Latter-day Saints.
The city has gained the nickname " Hub City " because of its central location and also because Moncton has historically been the railway and land transportation hub for the Maritimes.
Egypt became occupied by Muslim Arabs as early as 640, and since then so many mosques have appeared throughout the country that its capital city, Cairo, has acquired the nickname of city of a thousand minarets.
The brand name Gramophone was not used in the USA after 1901, and the word fell out of use there, though it has survived in its nickname form, Grammy, as the title of the Grammy Awards.
Rhode Island's official nickname is " The Ocean State ," a reference to the State's geography, since Rhode Island has several large bays and inlets that amount to about 14 % of its total area.
This has earned him the nickname of " the one-man film crew.
A Scandinavian origin has been proposed ( compare, for example, Norwegian slengenamn, which means " nickname "), but is discounted by the Oxford English Dictionary based on " date and early associations ".
This later design has gained the nickname " Series 3-4 Sonic " ( relating to the fact that at the start of Series 3, in " Smith and Jones ", the first Sonic Screwdriver was supposedly destroyed ), even though strictly speaking it first appeared in Series 4.
The event earned Christian II the nickname of Kristian Tyrann in Sweden which he has retained till this day.

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A characteristic mannerism in Rossini's orchestral scoring is a long, steady building of sound over an ostinato figure, creating " tempests in teapots by beginning in a whisper and rising to a flashing, glittering storm ," which earned him the nickname of " Signor Crescendo ".
James Parry ( born July 13, 1967 ), commonly known by his nickname and username Kibo (), is a Usenetter known for his sense of humor, various surrealist net pranks, an absurdly long. signature, and a machine-assisted knack for " kibozing ": joining any thread in which " kibo " was mentioned.
The nickname is also attributed to a long Arab dress he wore during his underground days in Palmach.
According to Irish legend, as a young girl Ní Mháille wished to go on a trading expedition to Spain with her father, and on being told she could not because her long hair would catch in the ship's ropes, she cut off most of her hair to embarrass her father into taking her, thus earning her the nickname " Gráinne Mhaol " (; from maol bald or having cropped hair ).
The country has a long history of beef eating and was once known for its beef and beef cooking methods, earning the English the nickname, " Les Rosbif ," from the French.
There is also a Major League Soccer team called the Chicago Fire, and there are / were also NBA teams called the Memphis Grizzlies ( 2001 – present ) and Charlotte Hornets ( 1988 – 2002 ) ( although the nickname " Hornets " for minor league baseball teams in Charlotte long precedes the WFL entry, and the " Grizzlies " name for the Memphis NBA team was selected when the franchise was still in Vancouver ).
The coati snout is long and somewhat pig-like ( see Suidae ) and extremely flexible and can be rotated up to 60 ° in any direction, the former being part of the reason for its nickname the hog-nosed raccoon.
His other party nickname was ' stone arse ', owing to his long hours at desks.
Though not used in official communication, the nickname " Illinois Tech " has long been a favorite of students, inspiring the name of the student newspaper ; ( renamed in 1928 from Armour Tech News to TechNews ), and the former mascot of the university's collegiate sports teams, the Techawks.
From there Fibber jumps headfirst into a long, breathless and boastful description of his nickname, using an admirable amount of alliteration.
His expenses during his long stay in the Ottoman Empire were covered from the Ottoman state budget, as part of the fixed assets ( Demirbaş in Turkish ), hence his nickname Demirbaş Şarl ( Fixed Asset Charles ) in Turkey.
Calgary has long been called the " Stampede City ", and carries the informal nickname of " Cowtown ".
A large, handsome, jovial man, he was fond of long dinners and good wine and was given the nickname " Toby Tosspot " by the Bulletin.
In 1270, however, the relations with England came to a standstill and the city ’ s economy went into a long decline ; hence the nickname of the Veurne Sleepers.
The original agreement was that they could name the band after their friend's nickname as long as he was on the cover of their first album.
* The Nunnery Quadrangle ( a nickname given to it by the Spanish ; it was a government palace ) is the finest of Uxmal's several fine quadrangles of long buildings with elaborately carved façades on both the inside and outside faces.
The title of the album became a long lasting nickname for him.
The Northern Pintail's many names describe the male's two long black tail feathers, which in flight look like a single pin or twig ( thus, the nickname sprig ).
* The nickname given to the triangular area south of Montreal worst affected by a long term blackout during the North American ice storm of 1998
" Skelton performed the character at home with Edna giving him the nickname " Junior " long before it was heard by a radio audience.
Considering the appearance of the meat -– a strip about 18 inches long and about one inch thick -– and its placement in the beef carcass beneath the heart and lungs, fajita ( little belt ) is a particularly apt nickname.
Freed had to apologize and stop using the nickname " Moondog " on air, on the basis that Hardin was known by the name long before Freed began using it.

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