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That was a very common thing up this way -- the "Bostons" and the "Brooklyns" were common, but for some reason rarely the "New Yorks" or the "Philadelphias."
Another thing you rarely see anymore are fanciful nicknames for teams used in headlines. These were coined as a matter of necessity when making up a page -- the lines had to be a precise length to fit the layout, and it was less easy to do this with hot metal printing than with computer layout. So you had things like "Hose Nip Solons," which when translated meant that the Red or White Sox had beaten the Senators. Or "Flock Tops Jints," which any New Yorker would know meant "Dodgers Beat Giants." (The "Flock" was a holdover from the days when the Dodgers were called the "Robins.")
Many other such names were used -- the Tigers were the "Bengals," the Braves and Indians were both the "Tribe," the Athletics were the "Mackmen" or the "Macks," the Reds might be the "Rhinelanders," the Pirates were occasionally the "Bucs" or "Corsairs," the Cardinals were the "Redbirds," and in the twenties, the Yankees were often on the back page of the News and the Mirror as the "Hugmen," after their manager Miller Huggins. Nobody ever calls them the "Girardimen" today.
You'll still here this occassionally today. The Pirates are still the "Bucs", the Cardinals the "Redbirds", and the Indians the "Tribe". You'll also sometimes hear "Pale Hose", "North/South Siders", and the "Fathers" in addition to "BoSox" or "ChiSox". And don't Red Sox fans refer to the Yankees as the "Scum"?