Teal Season

Teal Seasons: How Expansion Teams Chose Their Colors

An expansion team starts life with no championships, no old photographs, and no grandfather who remembers the first game. On day one, it can own only one thing: a color. Between 1988 and 1995, a run of new franchises in four leagues made that choice in public, and a surprising number of them landed on the same answer. Teal went …