Minor League Baseball’s Copa de la Diversión is back with eight new teams joining the fun, and two other teams coming back with entirely new Latino-inspired looks. The eight new teams joining Copa are the Fort Wayne Tin Caps, Frisco RoughRiders, Great Lakes Loons, Quad Cities River Bandits, Somerset Patriots,
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MiLB restores league names, introduces new Pacific Coast League logo
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
Minor League Baseball Updates Logo to Align with MLB
Minor League Baseball continued it’s off-season of change by tweaking its primary logo, bringing it more in-line with that of Major League Baseball’s iconic Batterman symbol. While the “Prospect Icon” remains (the batter design in the middle of the logo), the colours have been darkened to match MLB, the four
A Breakdown of Minor League Baseball’s Total Realignment for 2021
The world of Minor League Baseball was completely turned on its head last week when Major League Baseball announced a total restructering of the entire system. What was previously fourteen leagues spread out over five levels is now eleven leagues over four levels, massive re-alignments were implemented to accomodate this
WooSox unveil extensive uniform set
The Worcester Red Sox—WooSox to friends—unveiled the on-field threads they’ll wear in their debut season next year, including nine jerseys and seven caps. The nine jerseys include three whites, three blues, two reds, and one gray, featuring the city’s name in a traditional Red Sox font, the team name in
Minor League Baseball announces top 25 teams, record sales in 2019
Minor League Baseball’s 160 affiliated teams sold a record $85.7 million in merchandise during the 2019 calendar year. That number is an increase of almost 17 percent over 2018’s then-record $74 million in sales, which was an increase of four percent over 2017’s then-record $71 million. Each year, MiLB announces
Retro Repurposing: Looking Back at Mets Minor League Logos
When the New York Mets announced that they would rename their newly acquired Triple-A franchise in Syracuse the Mets last season, I was hoping that it would feature a modified version of its iconic skyline logo. A look that was quite popular with many of its affiliates during the 1980s,
Presenting the 2020 Minor League Baseball Logo Colour Wheel
The postponement of live professional sports in 2020 can’t stop this important tradition! While we don’t have the opening days that were supposed to be gracing minor league baseball fields across the continent this month, we do have the 2020 iteration of SportsLogos.net’s annual minor league baseball colour wheel. As
M-Braves to play as Mississippi Sweat
There’s nothing baseball fans would like more right now than the opportunity to be sweating through a baseball game on a hot summer afternoon. In the absence of actual sweaty baseball games, the Double-A Mississippi Braves unveiled a sweaty alternate identity that they’ll wear for one game when baseball finally
Minor League Baseball unveils 2020 Copa de la Diversion caps
We wrote back in the November about the 26 new alternate brands that we’ll see in Minor League Baseball’s growing and increasingly popular Copa de la Diversión (Fun Cup) program in 2020. Ninety-two of the 160 affiliated teams will participate this year (provided this season actually takes place at some
Minor League Baseball to commemorate Negro Leagues 100th anniversary
Minor League Baseball unveiled a new logo today that signals their participation in commemorations of the 100th anniversary of the Negro Leagues. The Negro National League was founded by Hall of Famer Rube Foster 100 years ago today, on February 13, 1920. MiLB will partner with the Negro Leagues Baseball
BlueClaws add beach-themed alternates
The Lakewood BlueClaws, Class A affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies, have long embraced their location along the iconic Jersey Shore as part of their brand. It’s not just that the team is named for that most delicious part of the crabs that fishermen pull from the nearby Atlantic Ocean. It’s