The Down East Wood Ducks, the “new” A Advanced affiliation of the Texas Rangers “hatched the team’s “new logos today. After being moved from the California League where the team played as the High Desert Mavericks and won the 2016 Cal League title, the team rebranded and needed a new look. Today at 4.00 PM…
Unlike big plans of changing the name of the club in 2017, the Staten Island Yankees have decided to remain the Staten Island Yankees; at least for the 2017 season. The club announced that it wanted to change the name to a one that was more Staten Island. After a name-the-team-contest five names came out…
About a month after the Binghamton Mets announced their name change, the team has unveiled their new uniforms. The new uniforms of the Binghamton Rumble Ponies lack creativity and originality. The club presented four different uniforms. Of course the home jersey that sports the name Rumble Ponies across the chest. The letters are scarlet with a silver…
Two weeks ago you could read about a emerging trend regarding strange (to put it mildly) team names in minor league baseball. In one week the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp, the Down East Wood Ducks and the Binghamton Rumble Ponies appeared in the world of minor league baseball. Since yesterday you can add another one to…
There was a time, especially in the fifties, sixties, seventies and eighties, when minor league affiliates were just named after their parent club. Even nowadays there are still quite some teams that are named after their name sake. Take the Braves’ farm teams for example. 90% of them is called Braves as well. Sure it…
