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The Class A minor league baseball franchise known as the Beloit Snappers for the last quarter-century revealed five finalists for their new name over the course of this week. Fans will have the opportunity to vote on the team’s website on the options listed below. Every time a minor league
Recent conversations about the use of Native American imagery in sports brands have been adversarial, at best. The now-former name of the football team in Washington, DC, was an actual racial slur. The Cleveland Indians used a cartoon caricature of a Native American as a logo for decades. Fans of
Mention Washington State to most people and the words evoke images of a lush Pacific Northwest climate, with misty waterways and layers of green in the temperate rainforests. But on the east side of the Cascade Mountains—roughly two-thirds of the state—you’ll find a much different scene. Erik “The Peanut Guy”
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
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,
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
Hello friends and welcome to the 8th Annual Creamer Awards, celebrating the best in new sports logos over the past twelve months. In 2019, for the first time ever, the results were determined entirely by you! The ten finalists for each category were based on those logos with the highest
As we wind down another year here at SportsLogos.Net, it’s time once again to take a moment to celebrate the best of the best logos to join the sports world over these past twelve months in what I not-so-shamelessly-but-still-sometimes-I-wonder-if-I-should refer to as the Creamer Awards. To be eligible for a
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
If ancient nautical mythology and Horatio McCallister, the sea captain from the Simpsons, got married and had a baby, their offspring would very likely be the new identity of the Connecticut Tigers, the latest franchise in minor league baseball to ditch their parent club’s brand in favor of a unique
The Class A Advanced minor league baseball team in Fort Myers, Florida, unveiled a new brand today that pays homage to sea life and healthy living. The erstwhile Fort Myers Miracle, a Minnesota Twins affiliate since the team moved from Miami to southwest Florida in 1992, will heretofore be the
It’s not been much of a secret what the new name for the Boston Red Sox’s Triple-A affiliate will be after it makes the move from Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to Worcester, Massachusetts, in 2021. Fans and media alike started calling the team WooSox almost immediately after they announced the impending
