114 Baseball Team Names

Here are 90+ baseball team names grouped by league type: classic names that look right on a jersey, funny names for beer leagues, clean picks for little league and short names that fit a scoreboard.

Baseball has the longest naming tradition of any team sport, and that works against you. Almost every strong animal, colour and city combination is already a real club somewhere, so the names that stand out are either built from the game's own vocabulary or lean fully into the fact that your team plays on a municipal field on Tuesdays.

Classic baseball names

Names built the way real clubs are built. These look right stitched on a jersey.

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Funny beer league names

Adult rec leagues where the after-game is the actual event.

Little league names

Clean, bright and easy for a coach to shout across a field.

Cool and intimidating names

For travel teams and tournaments where you want the name to land before the first pitch.

City and place names

Swap in your own town. The oldest reliable formula in baseball naming.

Short baseball names

Scoreboards truncate. These stay whole.

How to pick from this list

Check the name is not already a real club

Baseball has more than a century of minor league and independent teams, so most obvious animal plus city combinations already exist. A quick search saves you from sharing a name with a professional club two states away.

Beer league names should survive a losing season

Adult rec leagues are long and mostly social. Scared Hitless gets funnier the worse you play, while an intimidating name becomes the league's running joke by June.

Little league names go on a printed jersey

Parents order shirts before the first game and cannot reorder cheaply. Pick something short, clean and easy to spell, because whatever you choose is fixed for the whole season.

What this looks like in practice

A Tuesday-night beer league team calls itself Scared Hitless. It gets a laugh at every scorekeeping table, it never needs updating, and after a season where they win four games it is still the best name in the league.

Frequently asked questions

What are good baseball team names?

Classic names like River Bandits, Iron Birds or The Rally Caps look right on a jersey, while beer leagues do better with jokes such as Scared Hitless, Hit Happens or The Bad News Beers.

What are good little league team names?

Keep them short, clean and easy to shout: The Rockets, Blue Jays, Thunderbolts, Sluggers or Red Hawks. The name gets printed on jerseys before the first game, so it cannot be changed later.

How do I pick a baseball team name that is not taken?

Search it against minor league and independent club listings first, since a century of baseball history means most animal and city combinations already exist somewhere. Adding a local landmark usually makes it unique.