The Triple-A San Antonio Missions will pay homage to a staple food item from their hometown in 2020. For a three-game set early in the season, the Missions will take the field as the Puffy Tacos, sporting distinctive jerseys and a custom logo for the occasion. The Puffy Tacos logo
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Inland Empire 66ers wonder what might have been as Cherubs
When the Inland Empire 66ers gave their logos a much-needed overhaul in 2014, the team considered going a step further and completely rebranding. One nickname that they seriously considered was Cherubs. That identity would have been a play on the team’s relationship with its parent club in Anaheim, since cherubs
BlueClaws add beach-themed alternates
The Lakewood BlueClaws, Class A affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies, have long embraced their location along the iconic Jersey Shore as part of their brand. It’s not just that the team is named for that most delicious part of the crabs that fishermen pull from the nearby Atlantic Ocean. It’s
Lakewood BlueClaws to celebrate White Claw Wednesdays
The Phillies single-A affiliate in Lakewood New Jersey will take advantage of an opportunity too good to pass up in 2020: They’ll swap out their blue for white and play as the White Claws for six games this season. The name, of course, is a reference to the suddenly wildly
Ready Batter One: Wisconsin Timber Rattlers to celebrate Video Games Night
The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, Class A affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers, will hearken back to the era of the Atari 7800, Sega SG-1000, and Nintendo’s Famicom for one game this season. The team unveiled specialty caps and jerseys featuring 8-bit versions of their logo for Video Game Night. The familiar
Tarp Skunks bring baseball back to Jamestown
The town of Jamestown, New York, has been without baseball since the short-season Class A Jamestown Jammers left in 2014 for the greener pastures of West Virginia. That void will be filled this summer when Jamestown fields a team in the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League. The team today announced
Florence Freedom rebrand as Y’alls
In 1974, the city of Florence, Kentucky, built a water tower near Interstates 75 and 71 and the site of the future Florence Mall, which would open in 1976. The owners of the mall site gave land to the city for the tower with the caveat that it feature the
Harrisburg Senators unveil boisterous George Washington logo
For the second time this offseason, a Washington Nationals affiliate has unveiled a logo bearing the likeness of George Washington. The high-A Fredericksburg Nationals got the ball rolling back in October with a logo that features a youthful George Washington in red knickers wielding an axe (for cherry tree cutting,
Winston-Salem Dash unveil new logo
The Class A Advanced Winston-Salem Dash have ditched their grimacing, speeding, cartoon baseball primary logo in favor of a rounded, classic-feeling WS. The unveiling of the new mark, which was created by the Winston-Salem-based design firm The Variable, was something of a surprise, as there had not been much fanfare
Top Dog: The Story Behind the Amarillo Sod Poodles
Prairie dogs are tubby rodents that serve as food for basically every predator: hawks, coyotes, snakes, semi-trucks, you name it. So what would make a baseball team in a rough-and-tumble part of the country like western Texas want to adopt them as the foundation for their brand? That question was
Rounding up Minor League Baseball Rebrand Season
For exactly two months, beginning October 5 and culminating December 5, eight affiliated minor league baseball teams announced rebrands. The season of rebrands featured everything from teams merely updating an existing suite of logos to franchises changing cities and adopting entirely new identities. See below for our recap. Fredericksburg Nationals
Florida State League updates logo
The Florida State League will enter the 101st year since its founding with a new logo created by Florida-based Fooser Sports Design. The logo features colors you would associate with Florida, as well as imagery of a baseball, an outline of the state, and palm trees. “The Florida State League