The Triple-A baseball team in Sugar Land, Texas, made it official today after the news leaked last week, they’re now the Space Cowboys. The new identity, unveiled this afternoon, features an astronaut whose visor is reflecting a field of stars, and who is wearing a cowboy hat and bandanna—paying tribute
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New Sugar Land Skeeters league includes “Lightning Sloths”
The Sugar Land Skeeters, an independent minor league baseball team in the Atlantic League, have created a temporary four-team league that will play from July 10 to August 30 at the team’s ballpark near Houston, Texas. In addition to the Skeeters, who have been around since 2012, the Constellation Energy
Skeeters jerseys challenge opponents to “Come and Take It”
The 2018 Atlantic League champion Sugar Land Skeeters will defend their title wearing uniforms defying opponents to win. The independent Skeeters, led by manager Pete Incaviglia, a former Major Leaguer, will play the entire 2019 postseason wearing the specialty jerseys. The “Come and Take It” slogan is an homage to
Sweet Mosquitoes: The Story Behind the Sugar Land Skeeters
There are two things residents of Sugar Land, Texas, associate with their town. The first is the Imperial Sugar Company, headquartered there since moving from Louisiana in 1907. The second is mosquitoes, which are probably going to be a problem when you build a town on swampy marshland. First, the