The High-A Wisconsin Timber Rattlers and collegiate-summer level Fond du Lac Dock Spiders will share an alternate identity for one game each this summer. Both teams will play as the Lake Winnebago Shantymen, a tribute to the popular pastime of sturgeon spearfishing that occurs in the Wisconsin winter. The unique
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Ready Batter One: Wisconsin Timber Rattlers to celebrate Video Games Night
The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, Class A affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers, will hearken back to the era of the Atari 7800, Sega SG-1000, and Nintendo’s Famicom for one game this season. The team unveiled specialty caps and jerseys featuring 8-bit versions of their logo for Video Game Night. The familiar
Wisconsin Timber Rattlers update logos
Every designer has days when they’ve been daydreaming about making subtle changes to a years-old project long enough that they just snap and open up the old files and start working. They ignore the pop-up warning messages that the file was created in Adobe Creative Suite 3 eight years ago
Timber Rattlers to play a game as Wisconsin Brats
The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, Single-A affiliate of the nearby Milwaukee Brewers, will play a game as the Wisconsin Brats June 9, joining an increasingly long list of minor league teams taking on promotional identities based on local food specialties. Brats, short for the German “brätwurst,” which translates to “finely chopped
Snake, Rattle, and Roll: The Story Behind the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers
The origin story of the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers’ nickname is a short one. In the succinct words of Chris Mehring, the team’s director of media relations and radio announcer, it goes like this: “A timber rattler is a snake in northern Wisconsin. It’s indigenous to the area of northern Wisconsin.”