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If you’ve ever wanted to design a jersey worn in a professional baseball game, the Pensacola Blue Wahoos have just the deal for you. For two-hundred American dollars, fans can buy the opportunity to hand-colour a jersey that the Miami Marlins Double-A club will wear for their game on August
Larry MacPhail had seen enough. Throughout the 1940 season, the Brooklyn Dodgers president felt his team was the target of “beanballs” from opposing pitchers – pitches thrown (sometimes with intent) to the head of hitters. Rookie shortstop Pee Wee Reese was hit in the head at Wrigley Field on June
Identity for sister club to USL League One’s Greenville Triumph SC was developed by Brandiose
There were more casualties of Major League Baseball’s 2020 reorganization of the minor leagues than just the 43 teams who lost their affiliated status. The leagues that hosted the 120 teams who retained or gained affiliations lost the unique names that in some cases went back generations—according to Benjamin Hill
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
After a name-the-team contest that lasted more than four months, a new Staten Island-based franchise in the independent Atlantic League unveiled its name and logos this evening. The nickname FerryHawks was selected from seven finalists, which also included Harbor Heroes, Dragon Slayers, Responders, Front Liners, Watch Dogs, and Greenbelters. “A
Most baseball fans in North America know the Liga de Béisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente (LBPRC) colloquially as the Puerto Rican Winter League. The league was founded in 1937 as the Liga de Béisbol Profesional de Puerto Rico, then in 2007, after a one-year hiatus and a restructuring, it changed its
A two-month-long open submission process drummed up more than 2,000 potential names for a new Staten Island baseball team scheduled to start play in May 2022. From those entries the team has selected seven options. A new franchise in the independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball will be called one
Baseball fans in Hagerstown, Maryland, can look forward to naming a team in the coming months, thanks to an announcement from Downtown Baseball, LLC, owners of a new franchise in the independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. Owners of the city’s new team said that they’ll solicit input on a
The Double-A Pensacola Blue Wahoos are leaning butt-first into their claim on the “worst uniform in sports.” In a series of self-deprecating announcements, the team unveiled uniforms that they’ll wear on their “Festival of Crabzilla” promotional night, a commemoration of a crab sandwich the team sells. The uniforms, which include
The Portland Rosebuds were one of six teams in the short-lived West Coast Baseball Association, a Negro League that lasted a mere two months in 1946 before disbanding. The league boasted some heavy hitters, so to speak, including Harlem Globetrotters owner Abe Saperstein, who headed the league, and four-time Olympic
The Miami Marlins will take the field later today in “City Connect” uniforms inspired by a short-lived but influential minor league baseball team that played in Havana, Cuba, in the mid-20th century. The Havana Sugar Kings played an eventful six seasons as a Cincinnati Redlegs affiliate in the Triple-A International
