This is the logo of one of minor league baseball’s more interestingly-named teams, the Albuquerque Isotopes of the Pacific Coast League. They are a AAA affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The nickname is derived from an episode of The Simpsons where Homer goes on a hunger strike to try to keep the Springfield Isotopes, his local team, from moving to Albuquerque. When the team held a contest allowing fans to vote on the new team’s name, Isotopes got 67% of the votes, and won. The team is regularly one of baseball’s leaders in selling merchandise. Actually, the name has some relevance to its’ home, since New Mexico has a number of well-known scientific and military facilities dealing with nuclear technology, such as the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories and the Waste Isolation Pilot Project in Carlsbad.
Classic Team Logo of The Day
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Sep