The Portland Sea Dogs will take on one of their home state’s favorite meals—and social occasions—as a temporary identity this summer. The Sea Dogs, who have previously played as the Maine Whoopie Pies and Maine Red Snappers, will add Bean Suppahs, New England accent and all, to the menu. Bean
Category: Minor League Baseball
New West Coast League logo celebrates Pacific Northwest landscape
Nearly two decades after the league’s founding, the collegiate summer level West Coast League updated its logo for the first time. In a SportsLogos.net exclusive, we sat down with WCL commissioner Rob Neyer and Portland Pickles owner Alan Miller to discuss the league’s new look. The new logo, created by
Akron RubberDucks to play as JoJos, Homers
The Akron RubberDucks unveiled two promotional identities that they’ll don in 2022: the Akron JoJos and the Akron Homers. The RubberDucks join the food-based nickname frenzy with an homage to fried, breaded potato wedges called jojos. The nickname is a regionalism that the team attributes to Lebanese immigrants Alfred Ajamie
Springfield Sliders rebrand as Lucky HorseShoes
Since 2007, the local baseball team in the collegiate summer-level Prospect League has been called the Springfield Sliders. Today, at 2:17 central time on February 17 smack dab in the middle of the 217 area code, the franchise retired its turtle-based brand of 15 years and announced it would heretofore
Atlantic League welcomes Kentucky Wild Health Genomes
The newest team in the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball is the Kentucky Wild Health Genomes. There are a few things to unpack here, so we’ll start with the low-hanging fruit. The geographic signifier is Kentucky. They’ll play in Lexington, the second-largest city in the state and the horse capital
Peoria Chiefs to play as Orange Barrels, Pork Tenderloins
The Peoria Chiefs, High-A affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals, unveiled two alternate brands that they’ll wear in 2022 that have special significance to the local community. For three games this season, the team will play as the Orange Barrels. The nickname pays tribute specifically to construction on the Murray
Wisconsin Woodchucks update logos, rebrand as Wausau Woodchucks
The Wisconsin Woodchucks, members of the collegiate summer level Northwoods League, just moments ago unveiled a new suite of logos created by Dan Simon and announced that they’ll be the Wausau Woodchucks rather than the Wisconsin Woodchucks. The new logo—unveiled on Groundhog Day because woodchucks and groundhogs are the same
My God, It’s Full of Stars: Sugar Land Skeeters rebrand as Space Cowboys
The Triple-A baseball team in Sugar Land, Texas, made it official today after the news leaked last week, they’re now the Space Cowboys. The new identity, unveiled this afternoon, features an astronaut whose visor is reflecting a field of stars, and who is wearing a cowboy hat and bandanna—paying tribute
Independence League introduces North Platte Plainsmen
The newly formed collegiate summer level Independence League grew to nine teams with the addition of the North Platte Plainsmen this week. The team unveiled a suite of logos that feature a no-nonsense cowboy character created by Lincoln, Nebraska–based designer Adam Kovar. The cowboy character does not have a name
Rochester Honkers update logos, add purple
The Rochester Honkers, a Minnesota-based collegiate summer level team in the Northwoods League, unveiled a suite of seven new logos today. The biggest change in the updated identity is the addition of purple to the teal and black that the team has used since they were founded in 1994. “We
Introducing the Battle Creek Battle Jacks: Part of this complete breakfast!
The collegiate summer level Northwoods League’s Battle Creek Bombers rebranded today as the Battle Creek Battle Jacks. If that name sounds like something you’d see advertised during Saturday morning cartoons, it’s because the city of Battle Creek, Michigan, was once home to more than 100 cereal manufacturers, earning it the
Northern League introduces Lake County Corn Dogs
The town of Crown Point, Indiana, will be home to a new franchise in baseball’s pre-professional Northern League (formerly the Midwest Collegiate League). The Lake County Corn Dogs unveiled their nickname and logo this week, featuring a family-fun anthropomorphized corn dog sporting a baseball cap and glove, with the script