Also the Las Vegas Aviators have released new new secondary and cap logos. Logos that highlight aspects of their hometown’s connection to aviation. When the team adopted a new name in 2019, the year they moved into their new Las Vegas Ballpark, the moniker could be easily explained. The Aviators’ nickname was an homage to…
A week and a half ago, I was in Las Vegas during my US vacation. I had promised a friend, I would get him an aviators cap, so I headed to Las Vegas Ballpark in Summerlin. Unfortunately, I was not allowed to enter the ballpark, so I could only make some photos from the outside,…
In this episode of “Ballparks Around the World” we pay attention to one of the newest ballparks in AAA: Las Vegas Ballpark in Summerlin, Nevada, home of the Las Vegas Aviators. This episode comes rather quick after the previous one about Blacktown Baseball Stadium in Sydney, but yours truly bumped into a video of a…
Last night (European time), MLB informed AAA clubs that the AAA season will be delayed by a month. MLB uses corona as an excuse. In a statement MLB said the following: “This is a prudent step to complete the Major League and Minor League seasons as safely as possible, and we look forward to having…
Back in 2014, I wrote a series of blog posts about the origin of minor league team names. Since then, the minor league landscape has changed a lot. Clubs moved, adopted new names. All reasons to have a new series in which the new names are added and explained. We continue with the letter L:…
With the installment of the sods, the new home of the Las Vegas Aviators starts to look like a real ballpark. A good looking one indeed. The new grass was laid on Thursday, a few weeks before the new Pacific Coast League season will start. With seats installed in most of the sections of the…
It was a busy offseason regarding new MiLB names and logos. No less than nine clubs presented a new look of which one still has to move to the new city. The Rocket City TrashPandas only exist in name as the team will play its swan song as the Mobile BayBears in 2019. Minor League…
The Las Vegas ballpark the future home of the Las Vegas Aviators (former 51s) is right on schedule. Since the groundbreaking ceremony on February 23, 2018, the construction of the ballpark is proceeding swiftly. According to 13KNTV Las Vegas, progress at the site is easy to spot near Downtown Summerlin and crews have now started setting…
With MLB commissioner Rob Manfred being positive about an eventual expansion of the number of MLB clubs from 30 to 32, businessman John Loar is leading an attempt to bring MLB to the country and western capital. To explore the possibility of an MLB team in Nashville, Loar has formed Music City Equity Group to…
Since 2.00 PM (Pacific Time), the Las Vegas 51s are no more. The team will move into a new stadium in Summerlin in 2019 and as a result, the team has rebranded. The team has adopted the name Aviators. https://www.facebook.com/AviatorsLV/videos/2241642819413083/ Of five names the name Aviators was chosen because of the history of the company…
