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
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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
Houston Astros Announce 60th Anniversary Patch on Caps, Jerseys in 2022
The Houston Astros are up on the launching pad and ready to blast off into their 60th anniversary season in 2022. Throughout the 2022 season, the Astros will be wearing a commemorative “60 Years” patch on the sleeve of their jerseys and the right side of their ballcaps. The logo
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
Gem City Bison roam into Independence League
Wyoming is one of three U.S. states to have adopted bison as their state mammal, and Wyoming’s state flag prominently features the animal. The state is also home to much of Yellowstone National Park, where bison—after a brush with species-wide extinction in the late 1800s—are plentiful. So it makes sense
Pioneer League’s Glacier Range Riders pay homage to National Park
Baseball’s independent Pioneer League will grow from eight teams in 2021 to ten in 2022. We’ve known for some time that the ninth team will be the Northern Colorado Owlz—freshly relocated from Orem, Utah—who will resume play after taking a season off last year. And just moments ago, we learned