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Yesterday afternoon Edwin Jackson stepped onto the mound at San Francisco’s AT&T Park wearing the road grey uniform of the Toronto Blue Jays and threw a pitch. And with that, he broke a Major League Baseball record. The Toronto Blue Jays are the 14th Major League team Jackson has played
The Philadelphia Phillies have added a memorial patch to their jersey sleeve in memory of team president and minority owner David Montgomery who died last week at the age of 72. The patch will remain on the jersey sleeve for the rest of the 2019 season. Montgomery, a Philadelphia native,
The Triple-A Buffalo Bisons introduced their alternate Wings identity last year, joining an armful of other minor league baseball teams who have promotions based on local food specialties. The Bisons will reprise the role of Wings this year, but with updated—and vastly improved—logos and uniforms. The colors are what I
Baseball’s collegiate summer Expedition League, which will begin its second season this month, has announced plans to expand in 2020. The league will welcome the Rapid City Jackalopes, named for a mythical creature whose origins go back to 13th-century reports of “horned hares” in Europe The modern-day jackalope—a jackrabbit with
From 1863 to 1869, three private companies built 1,912 miles of continuous rail, creating the First Transcontinental Railroad across the United States. While the Central Pacific Railroad Company started in Sacramento and started working eastward (continuing track that the Western Pacific Railroad Company laid from San Francisco Bay to Sacramento),
Southern Illinois University unveiled a new logo earlier this year that gives the Saluki a more streamlined appearance than its dated predecessor. “The Saluki is unique throughout collegiate athletics,” athletic director Jerry Kill said. “Our goal with the new logo was to retain the original look and feel of the
Six months after university leadership retired its controversial Prospector Pete mascot, California State University, Long Beach — also known as Long Beach State — announced on Friday the selection of Sharks as the new school mascot. The decision concluded a student-initiated process in which the university solicited ideas for a
Earlier this season, the Rochester Red Wings hosted the Pawtucket Red Sox for Deaf Culture Day April 28. As part of the game’s commemoration of the deaf community, Rochester wore uniforms with illustrations of hands forming letters in American Sign Language. Later this season, the PawSox will host the Red
To help celebrate moms everywhere, all thirty Major League Baseball clubs will be wearing commemorative caps, patches, socks, and more for today’s Mother’s Day games. This mark’s the fourth season that the league has had clubs wear a different cap or jersey for the event when in 2016 teams first
The Daytona Tortugas have already paid homage to The Hangover this season, and tonight they’re commemorating another modern classic. Fifteen years after we were graced with the quirky but lovable Napoleon Dynamite, the Tortugas will wear “Vote for Shelldon” uniforms, replacing Napoleon’s adopted cause, his friend Pedro, with their turtle
To celebrate its designation as a preeminent university, the University of South Florida last fall introduced a brand new academic logo, which featured a full-bodied, lime-green bull. The “Charging Bull” was met with immediate and heavy criticism by students and alumni, who cited similarities to the logo used by investment
The Single-A Inland Empire 66ers teased a California Burritos promotion earlier this month, but now we have details. The promotion is, as suspected, a temporary rebrand in which the team will play one game as the California Burritos. Per the team, “The California Burrito is a staple around Inland Empire
