Cool Minor League Logos

[Edgy MD]

From the "THINGS WERE BETTER WHEN DIFFERENT TEAMS USED DIFFERENT MARKETING AND DESIGN FIRMS" comes this wonderful unearthing of Houston Astros game day programs from the sixties.

Look at them mocking the Mets! That's fighting art! Look at Casey!

[metsmarathon]

thats just bad form. the mets never wore a big M on their caps...

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: From the "THINGS WERE BETTER WHEN DIFFERENT TEAMS USED DIFFERENT MARKETING AND DESIGN FIRMS" comes this wonderful unearthing of Houston Astros game day programs from the sixties. Look at them mocking the Mets! That's fighting art! Look at Casey! [fimg=333]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-GKUp4CUAAiRD9.jpg[/fimg]

I'm onto those. From roughly 1966-68, the Astros program covers featured a style evocative of European stlye cartooning. They shoulda had Tug McGraw trying to smoke the artificial turf next to the Met trying to peer underneath it.

[batmagadanleadoff]

New slogan for the 1969 Cubs: Turn on, Tune in, Drop Out of First Place.

[fimg=444]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-GE2owCUAAfVFo.jpg:large[/fimg]

When the Cubs went on a road trip, they went on a road trip.

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I guess they don't make baseball programs like they used to, either.

[Zvon]

"Thank you for watching Bad Program Covers.
I am your host Leonard Pinth-Garnell."

"I think we'll all agree those
were outrageously, hilariously,
and excruciatingly baaaaad."

[nymr83]

The Traverse City Beach Bums are about two hours north and have a beautiful stadium, especially for an independent league team. The Lansing Lugnuts are two blocks from my office, also with kind of a nice stadium. The name was met with open ridicule at first, but now people kind of like it. Now, the West Michigan Whitecaps are four miles from my house and used to have a cool logo. Then they followed the lead of the other MiLB clubs and have this:

This logo is pretty cool.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

New to the AA Southern League this season, and continuing in the vein of goofy logos a la the Lugnuts, Biscuits and Waves, are the Biloxi Shuckers:


Unfortunately for the Shuckers they won't sell a lot of merch since their stadium is apparently way behind schedule and isn't expected to open till June at the earliest, with a plan of playing home games on the road (and in Huntsville). Late fees could bankrupt the city in the meantime.

In other news the New Britian Rock Cats (Rockies Class AA Eastern League) are moving to Hartford next season and there's a contest going on NOW!!!! to re-name the team. Hartford's "big league" franchise back in the 1880s were known as the Dark Blues, which I think would be cool to bring back but you know modern team owners will go for something more sellable.

I was reminded of the Dark Blues name this weekend when I stopped by Troy, NY for a beer. Their team in the same era was known as the Haymakers. Now that's a team name.

[Edgy MD]

Haymakers is great. It's a diligent hardworking wage-earning man. And it's lights-out punch to the jaw.

I'm a fan of Abraham Lincoln High's nickname, but they've never quite nailed the logo.

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[MFS62]

I think we may have a winnahhh.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/minor-league-team-to-wear-jabba-the-hutt-jerseys/ar-AAaeRo3?ocid=DELLDHP

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[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: In other news the New Britian Rock Cats (Rockies Class AA Eastern League) are moving to Hartford next season and there's a contest going on NOW!!!! to re-name the team. Hartford's "big league" franchise back in the 1880s were known as the Dark Blues, which I think would be cool to bring back but you know modern team owners will go for something more sellable.

Like, say, the Yard Goats?

Get used to seeing goats. Although the name Yard Goats is technically an old railroad slang term for an engine that switches a train to get it ready for another locomotive, the animal angle lends itself to logos and merchandise. Hartford's stadium could have a petting zoo, at least on some nights. "When you think of a name, it's about what you can market and what appeals to kids," Restall said. "We can do a lot with this name."

Logo forthcoming.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: In other news the New Britian Rock Cats (Rockies Class AA Eastern League) are moving to Hartford next season and there's a contest going on NOW!!!! to re-name the team. Hartford's "big league" franchise back in the 1880s were known as the Dark Blues, which I think would be cool to bring back but you know modern team owners will go for something more sellable. Like, say, the Yard Goats? Get used to seeing goats. Although the name Yard Goats is technically an old railroad slang term for an engine that switches a train to get it ready for another locomotive, the animal angle lends itself to logos and merchandise. Hartford's stadium could have a petting zoo, at least on some nights. "When you think of a name, it's about what you can market and what appeals to kids," Restall said. "We can do a lot with this name." Logo forthcoming.

Geez.

Only semi-related. I love when UniWatch does uni-design contests. The one for a supposed NHL expansion club in Vegas is terrific.

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[Edgy MD]

I like the effort, but that logo speaks to me not of a team called the Las Vegas Aces, so much as of a team called Las Vegas Spades.

Agreed that the Uni-Watch contests are great, and shows what is lost when very few firms are doing all the thinking.