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Welcome to the 2018 Creamer Awards, our seventh annual celebration of the best new sports logos to debut throughout the year. Over these past twelve months, we saw a plethora of new logos across the sports world. In addition to the usual crop of fresh designs, we were treated to
An offseason merry-go-round of minor league baseball franchise relocations culminated today with the introduction of the Rocky Mountain Vibes. The team’s Brandiose-designed logos feature a s’mores-based theme with a marshmallow character named Toasty. The new name was not one of the five finalists in a name-the-team contest, but it derived
Booyah! A phrase made popular by late ESPN sportscaster Stuart Scott is now the name of a baseball team. Announced this evening, the Green Bay Bullfrogs of the Northwoods League will now be known as the Green Bay Booyah unveiling a slew of new logos in the process. The name
An offseason Ferris wheel of franchise relocations will bring affiliated Minor League Baseball back to the city of Amarillo, Texas, for the first time since 1982. In an announcement made just moments ago, the Double-A San Antonio Missions franchise is moving 500 miles to the north to become the Amarillo
The new minor league baseball team in Madison, Alabama, won’t make its debut until 2020, but the buzz around the Rocket City Trash Pandas has been growing for almost two months, since the name was announced at the beginning of September. That buzz crescendoed today with the much-anticipated unveiling of
Every two years, baseball fans get to witness one of the true wonders of the sports world: the expiration of player development contracts that Major League clubs have with the minor league teams in their farm systems. At most levels, there’s one minor league team for each Major League team,
When the Double-A Mobile BayBears relocate to Madison, Alabama, in 2020, they will be called Rocket City Trash Pandas, a name chosen in a recently completed name-the-team contest. More than two-thirds of fans chose the geographic identifier Rocket City (because of the areas ties to the aerospace industry) over two
This morning the Eastern League, a double-A member of Minor League Baseball, updated their league logo for the first time in twenty years. The new mark was designed by San Diego-based Brandiose who has been responsible for a host of new Minor League team identities over the last several seasons
The Single-A Great Lakes Loons had their hearts set on coming up with a temporary alternate identity—after all, everyone else in the minors was doing it—but none of the current trends were really whetting their whistle. In struggling to find an appropriate alternate brand, as director of creative services Alex
When the Double-A Mobile BayBears relocate to Madison, Alabama, for the 2020 season, the franchise will take on a new nickname. We know now that the moniker will be one of the 10 listed below, which were among more than 3,300 suggestions submitted to a name-the-team contest. The name options
The only professional sports team in the state of Vermont, the Single-A Vermont Lake Monsters, is paying homage to the state’s syrupy heritage with a one-game rebrand later this season. The team will take the field as the Vermont Maple Kings, the latest entry in the trend of minor league
For five Saturdays this summer the Staten Island Yankees take on a fresh identity. And while changing their name—and design—to the Staten Island Pizza Rats may appear all fun and games, the effort to get the name, aesthetic and multi-faceted design on point was all business. “As we sat down
