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The Hartford Yard Goats, Double-A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies, are named for the most unglamorous, squat, workhorses of railroad locomotives. In the rail industry, yard goats, or switchers, hardly ever leave the rail yard. Instead, they toil in obscurity, spending their days moving trains around to get them ready
The minor league baseball team in Hartford, Connecticut, will pay homage to the city’s beloved, defunct hockey team, the Hartford Whalers, with special uniforms later this summer. The Double-A Hartford Yard Goats, who after an entire season on the road in 2016 are playing their first season with actual home
A lot of small towns proclaim themselves the Something Capital of the World. There are multiple cities that claim the title of Blueberry Capital of the World, Music Capital of the World, or Financial Capital of the World, to name a few—but only one city lays claim to the title
Let’s be honest, there are some minor league baseball uniforms that look like they’ve been designed by fifth graders. But later this season, the Tacoma Rainiers, Triple-A affiliate of the Seattle Mariners, will wear some nice-looking jerseys that were ACTUALLY designed by a fifth grader. Isayas Hampton, a student at Tacoma’s Franklin Elementary,
The St Louis Cardinals’ Pacific Coast League Triple-A affiliate unveiled a new set of logos and uniforms at a media event earlier today. Designed by Kentucky’s Studio Simon, headed by Dan Simon. Among their extensive portfolio is the Milwaukee Admirals of the American Hockey League, which was the 2015 Creamer Award winner for
Welcome to the 2016 Creamer Awards! Celebrating the very best (and sometimes the worst) in new sports logos from these past twelve months. We’ve worked our way through the hundreds upon hundreds of new logos that made their debut on the sports landscape to narrow it down to the cream (pun?) of the
Fort McHenry, a star-shaped military facility in Baltimore, Maryland, was built in 1798. It’s been a national park since 1925, but before that, it featured prominently in a handful of wars, including World Wars I and II, and, most notably, the War of 1812. It was during a battle in September
The Las Vegas NHL expansion franchise, slated to begin play in the 2017-18 season is expected to announce their team name any day now, but as is our way, we’ve gotten a hold of the list of names they’re currently considering a little early thanks to a little sleuthing around I did earlier
On the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States lies an amorphous geographic region designated as Tidewater. It comprises primarily southeastern Virginia, but also (depending on whom you ask and what sort of mood they’re in) parts of North Carolina and Maryland. The Tidewater region is flat and, because its water features—the
Wichita, the largest city in the state of Kansas, is inextricably tied to the aviation industry. During the 1900s, the city produced more airplanes than any other. Six aircraft manufacturers were founded in Wichita in the 1920s and 1930s, and the industry would be responsible for more jobs than any other
Minor League Baseball just released its annual list of its top 25 teams in terms of merchandise sales, and the only consistent thing about it is that there is no consistency. The list represents a wide diversity of teams and approaches to branding. It includes a range of classifications, from Triple-A
There are few trends in sports more pronounced than minor league baseball teams abandoning their parent club’s brand in favor of a unique nickname appropriate to the local community. So shortly after the 2014 season, when the Oklahoma City RedHawks announced that they would take on the name of their
