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The Triple-A Sacramento River Cats will commemorate their 20th season with a redesigned set of uniforms. The uniforms incorporate a mixed bag of the team’s traditional maroon, black, and white and its alternate gold and black. The home whites feature the River Cats script on the jersey and the team’s
The Sacramento River Cats, triple-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants, have added a logo featuring their hometown’s iconic Tower Bridge. The 737-foot Tower Bridge has been a fixture in Sacramento since 1935, and can be seen from Raley Field. The color of the bridge has long been the subject
In the course of writing this series, I have been surprised on many occasions to learn of connections between the names of sports teams and their home towns. So when I called up the Sacramento River Cats to learn the story behind their nickname, I was expecting to find that
Despite comments suggesting the Oakland Athletics would be known only as “The Athletics” or “The A’s” when they move to Sacramento next season, the team appears to be considering other, more traditional options. Public records available from the United States Patent and Trademark Office show the Oakland Athletics trademarked two
The 2024 season will be the last the Oakland Athletics play at the old Coliseum. Today, following nearly sixty years at the ballpark, the A’s announced they would be shifting their home games to Sutter Health Park in Sacramento, California. The first games in their new home will begin with
The Fresno Grizzlies and Sacramento River Cats, both Triple-A Pacific Coast League teams from California, do not like each other. That rivalry is coming to a head this weekend with the Grizzlies hosting “Grumpy Cat Night” to kick off a series against the RiverCats. The Grizzlies have been pulling the River
Minor League Baseball’s 160 affiliated teams sold a record $85.7 million in merchandise during the 2019 calendar year. That number is an increase of almost 17 percent over 2018’s then-record $74 million in sales, which was an increase of four percent over 2017’s then-record $71 million. Each year, MiLB announces
Minor League Baseball’s growing and increasingly popular Copa de la Diversión (Fun Cup) program will feature 92 teams in 2020, up from 72 this past season. Now in its fourth year, the initiative involves teams adopting temporary Spanish-language brands. The 2020 batch of Copa identities will feature 25 all-new identities
Minor League Baseball set another record in overall merchandise sales in 2018, tallying nearly $74 million in total sales from all 160 affiliated teams, up more than four percent from 2017’s then-record $71 million in sales. While MiLB does not provide rankings of individual teams, it does reveal the top
Last week, we were introduced to the 72 Spanish-language brands that Minor League Baseball will feature in its Copa de la Diversion this season. Now that we’ve had time to process what we’ve seen and break down what works and why, here are the seven best looks, nicknames, and identities.
Minor League Baseball’s Copa de la Diversion program has grown from just four teams in 2017 to 33 last year to 72 this season. It’s so many that we had to break our post into two parts. Below are the second set of 36 unveiled over the course of the
The Triple-A minor league baseball franchise in Las Vegas is undergoing an offseason of change. They switched parent clubs from the Mets to the A’s; they’re building a new ballpark in Summerlin, 10 miles west of Cashman Field, their home since the franchise’s days as the Las Vegas Stars beginning
