Seton Hall "Pirates"
The athletics mascot and nickname have long been some of the most recognizable symbols of a university. Throughout its storied history, Seton Hall University has seen just four incarnations of its own athletics moniker. At the inception, SHU's sports teams were known as the Villagers (1890-1900's). A short time after the turn of the century, these nicknames were succeeded by the White & Blue , a reference to the school's official colors. The SHU baseball program holds a special place on the school's nickname timeline. From 1890 to the 1910s, the squad had an exclusive epithet, playing under the name the Alerts before transitioning to the more conventional White & Blue nickname characteristic of the SHU athletics teams of the time. Seton Hall continued to be known by their signature colors for the better part of three decades. Presumably this tradition would have continued further, had it not been for one fateful day on a ball field in Worcester, Mass., wh...
