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I had never been to Greenville, South Carolina, before last Thursday, when I rolled into town in a van with eight longtime friends to kick off a four-day minor league baseball road trip we call “Baseballpalooza.” Greenville pops up a lot on those annual lists of “Coolest Towns for Young People”
The High-A Asheville Tourists first adopted their alternate Hippies identity after losing (actually tying) a Twitter-fueled bet with the Greenville Drive in 2017. After the Drive repeatedly taunted Asheville with jokes on social media about their town being filled with hippies, the two teams made a bet that the loser
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
For the first time since the program debuted with just four teams in 2017, Minor League Baseball’s Copa de la Diversión (“Fun Cup”) will feature fewer teams than the previous season. Seventy-six of 120 affiliated Minor League Baseball will participate in the program, compared to 92 of 160 teams that
The world of Minor League Baseball was completely turned on its head last week when Major League Baseball announced a total restructering of the entire system. What was previously fourteen leagues spread out over five levels is now eleven leagues over four levels, massive re-alignments were implemented to accomodate this
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’s successful Copa de la Diversión (Fun Cup) program, in which teams reimagine their brands in the Spanish language and in the traditions of Latin communities, has grown to more than twice its previous size this season. The program began with just four teams in 2017, jumped to
As part of “Copa de la Diversión” (“Fun Cup”), Minor League Baseball has spent today rolling out all-new name, logo, and uniform packages for 33(!) teams; presumably as a way to drive me mad a mere 24 hours after Major League Baseball unveiled 120 new caps. In case you were
Minor League Baseball teams in 33 cities will adopt Spanish-language promotional identities throughout the upcoming season as part of the league’s “Copa de la Diversión” (“Fun Cup”) initiative. MiLB introduced the program in four markets late last season, when the Triple-A Las Vegas 51s played as the Reyes de Plata
There are a lot of places in North America that could lay claim to the title “Beer City,” but only one of them took the initiative to put the slogan on their baseball team’s uniforms. The Asheville Tourists will change their name for one night to the Beer City Tourists, opening the
A lot of sports teams choose to represent themselves with fierce, intimidating creatures: Tigers, Diamondbacks, Sharks, Chihuahuas, etc. But none of these sounds quite so awful as the swarming, biting insects that infest coastal Georgia twice a year. Sand gnats, colloquially referred to as biting midges, punkies, sand flies, sand
