If you’ve been to the Pacific Northwest, you will immediately recognize the color palette featured in the new logo for Minor League Baseball’s Northwest League. Placid blues and greens (and if we’re being honest, grays) surround you at every turn. Countless waterways and sprawling forests and (when the skies clear
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Explosive Brand: The Story Behind the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes
The year 1997 saw the movies Titanic and Men in Black take Hollywood by storm. The TV shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Teletubbies, and South Park premiered. Hanson was singing MMM Bop, the Back Street Boys were making their United States debut, and the first Harry Potter book was published. And
Hopped Up: The Beery Story Behind the Hillsboro Hops
Minor league baseball is an industry whose main goal is to appeal to families, if not specifically children. So the Hillsboro Hops, short-season single-A affiliate of the Diamondbacks, went out on a limb when they based their entire identity on one of the four main ingredients of beer. In fact, when the
Bigfoot is Real: The Story Behind the Eugene Emeralds
Of all the documented sightings of Bigfoot, known in the scientific community as Sasquatch, roughly a third of them have occurred in the mountain forests of the Pacific Northwest. There’s an obvious reason for this: That is where Bigfoot lives. Since 1955, the Eugene Emeralds, currently a short-season single-A affiliate of the Chicago
Soggy Froggy, Man: The Story Behind the Everett AquaSox
The city of Everett, Washington, about 25 miles north of Seattle, gets roughly 49 inches of rain per year—a good 30 percent more than the national average. That’s almost an entire Danny Devito of rain each year. And when it’s not raining there, it’s just about to rain. When you’re
Best, Worst New Logos of 2014: SportsLogos.Net Readers’ Choice Awards
As we get set to enter the year of hover boards, self-lacing sneakers, and a Chicago Cubs World Series Championship we must first look back on the current year… 2014, which was my 18th running SportsLogos.Net. Overall 2014 was a rather uneventful year when it came to major re-brandings in the big
Boise Hawks go for Twilight Look, Add Glitter Accents with Scratches
The Boise Hawks of the Northwest League announced today their new uniforms and caps created by Brandiose. The Las Vegas design firm first redesigned the Hawks in 2007, when they changed the team colors and created the bold scripts seen on the front of the jerseys. New, however, is the
Eugene Emeralds Find Bigfoot in New Team Logos
Continuing what has been a very busy week in Minor League Baseball re-brandings, the Eugene Emeralds (San Diego Padres Single-A Northwest League) yesterday unveiled their new logos and colour scheme. The new look gives the Emeralds something they desperately needed, a true identity. Having used logos in the past that showed off
Hillsboro Hops Introduce the Next Great Minor League Logo
Mr. Celery, the Montgomery Biscuit, and now Mr. Hop Cone. The Hillsboro Hops yesterday unveiled their new name and logo via their Facebook page, immediately adding themselves to the list of the best of the best in terms of branding and logos in Minor League Baseball. A member of the