Throughout the extensive history of Major League Baseball and its predecessor major leagues, dozens of franchises have ceased operations, folded, or relocated and rebranded. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, prominent teams that folded included the infamous Cleveland Spiders, the Louisville Colonels, the Providence Grays, the Buffalo Bisons, the Hartford Dark Blues, the Troy Trojans, and the Worcester Ruby Legs. In more modern baseball history, franchises rarely outright dissolved without a successor; instead, historical entities like the Montreal Expos ceased to exist under that identity when relocating to Washington D.C. to become the Nationals in 2005. Similarly, historic names like the original Washington Senators (who became the Minnesota Twins and later the Texas Rangers in separate iterations), the Seattle Pilots (who became the Milwaukee Brewers after just one season in 1969), the St. Louis Browns (who became the Baltimore Orioles), the Boston Braves, Brooklyn Dodgers, and New York Giants all represent historic major league identities and original team incarnations that no longer exist in their former iterations or locations.