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Classic Team Logo of The Day

27 Sep

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.

 

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