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It’s that time of year in the Minors—we’ve reached the halfway mark of the season in many leagues, and there’s no surer sign of the midway point of a baseball season than all star games. To that end, five leagues in the Minors are holding their summer classics this evening,
New challenger approaching! The Portland Winterhawks, a major-junior team in the Western Hockey League appears to be ready to throw their hat into the NHL ring, if a series of interesting domain name registrations can be trusted. Via domain detective Clark Rasmussen of DetroitHockey.Net, the Winterhawks registered numerous new domain
Long before the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp became one of the poster children for minor league baseball’s era of wacky logos—and long before the Jacksonville Expos of the late 1980s, or the Jacksonville Suns, who played the better part of five decades off and on from the 1960s through 2016—there were
The Aberdeen IronBirds, short-season Single-A affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles, will play every Sunday home game in 2018 as the Star-Spangled Banners. The name change is a way “to honor the military and Maryland as the birthplace of the national anthem,” the team said. The IronBirds’ permanent nickname is a
It’s Father’s Day! That one morning of the year my family acts extra nice to me, and then by about 10:30am things settle back into our normal routine. It’s also a good time for ballclubs across Major League Baseball to break out the powder blue and don some themed uniforms.
The Reading Fightin Phils will pay homage to their parent club’s mascot with specialty uniforms for a game later this season. The Phillie Phanatic, a native of the Galapagos Islands and the best mascot in sports (note: it’s not close), will be featured prominently throughout the evening, including on the
In season 2 of the IFC TV show “Brockmire,” Hank Azaria plays a disgraced former announcer for the Kansas City Royals whose career imploded after an on-air meltdown brought on by the discovery of his wife’s infidelity. Jim Brockmire’s attempt to revive his career take him through rural Pennsylvania as
The latest food-based temporary identity comes to us from the Delmarva Shorebirds, who will play a game as the Delmarva Scrapple later this season. Given that the team’s geographic indicator, Delmarva, is a mash-up of three states (Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia) and scrapple is a breakfast specialty with hyper-local appeal,
Ten-time National League All-Star, two-time World Series Champion and Baseball Hall of Famer Albert “Red” Schoendienst died earlier this month at the age of 95. Schoendienst, a second baseman, spent 15 of 19 Major League seasons as a player with the St. Louis Cardinals before continuing with the club as
The Carolina Hurricanes gave us a bit of a teaser for their new alternate/third uniform, already announced by the team to be unveiled at their NHL Draft party next Friday night. The teaser was posted as a video on their official Twitter account, you can watch that entire 7 second
The Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders are taking Teddy Bear Toss Night to the next level, rebranding as the Teddy Bears for one game. The team will wear teddy bear-themed uniforms on the night that fans can get in free if they donate a stuffed animal to a local children in need.
When the Staten Island Yankees considered rebranding in 2016, they went as far as holding a name-the-team contest and announcing a winner before deciding to stick with the name of their parent club. The winner of that contest by a substantial margin was Staten Island Pizza Rats, taking more than
