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Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is a centerpiece of the African-American Civil Rights Movement. King wrote the letter on scraps of newspaper and delivered it piecemeal to Civil Rights leaders through his lawyers while imprisoned in 1963. More than half a century after its writing, King’s letter,
Birmingham, Alabama, has been known as the Magic City since the late 1800s, when miners discovered that all the three major components of steel—iron ore, coal, and limestone—could be found in the area. The city’s population exploded from just 100 in 1865 to a quarter million in 1878, earning it
Beneath the surface of the tidy identity of one of minor league baseball’s most storied teams lies a decidedly untidy, twisting, turning history—or rather two separate histories that converged under the banner of today’s Birmingham Barons, Double-A affiliate of the Chicago White Sox. To start with, the team’s identity is untidy
Insignia on front of jersey is a nod to the Birmingham Black Barons, a Negro League baseball team that played from 1920 to 1962
It’s day two of Minor League Baseball’s marathon of Marvel’s logo unveilings. In case you missed it yesterday, both MiLB and Marvel Entertainment announced they’d have special “Marvel’s Defenders of the Diamond” logos for 96(!!!) teams to be worn for at least one game per season in 2023 and 2024.
Minor League Baseball and Marvel Entertainment announced the launch of the first batch of logos belonging to Marvel’s Defenders of the Diamond series, a collection of special Minor League Baseball team logos and uniforms. The designs, all created by Marvel, will be worn on-field at least once per season by
If you’ve ever wanted to design a jersey worn in a professional baseball game, the Pensacola Blue Wahoos have just the deal for you. For two-hundred American dollars, fans can buy the opportunity to hand-colour a jersey that the Miami Marlins Double-A club will wear for their game on August
It’s that time of year in the Minors—we’ve reached the halfway mark of the season in many leagues, and there’s no surer sign of the midway point of a baseball season than all star games. To that end, five leagues in the Minors are holding their summer classics this evening,
The Triple-A baseball club in Rochester, New York, has a remarkable history. Founded in 1899, it lays claim to being North America’s longest continuously operating non-Major League franchise. It also lays claim to being part of the longest baseball game in professional history—a 33-inning affair against the Pawtucket Red Sox
From mid-May to mid-June, Congaree National Park in South Carolina is home to a rare natural display that can only be seen in a few places around the world. The mating rituals of Photinus carolinus—also known as synchronous fireflies—create a hot, steamy, Christmas-in-Springtime wonderland of lightning bugs blinking in unison. The
It’s finally time for the 2024 Major League Baseball season to (truly) get underway! This means it’s also time for my annual detailed look at all the uniform and logo changes you’ll see on the ballfield throughout the next six to seven months of baseball bliss. This year, we saw
Another year over, a new one about to begin; 2013 was the most successful year to date in the history of SportsLogos.Net, our 16th year bringing you the latest in news and rumours from the world of sports logos and uniforms. Over the past twelve months we’ve seen hundreds of
