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The Fort Wayne … TinCaps?
October 3, 2008, 10:52 pm
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They’re no longer the Fort Wayne Wizards, folks. The Midwest League baseball franchise has changed nickname to coincide with moving into a new downtown ballpark next season.

The new nickname? The TinCaps. No, really, the TinCaps.

The logo actually looks fairly cool. It’s an apple with a face, wearing a pot, I guess. The nickname has something to do with Johnny Appleseed regularly wearing a tin cooking pot upon his head.

OK, that begs this obvious question. Is it a good logo and nickname when you have to explain it to everyone?

Here’s a link to seeing the new TinCaps logo:

http://midwest.league.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20081002&content_id=462704&vkey=news_l118&fext=.jsp&sid=l118

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After looking at the logo, the term PotHeads leaps to mind. Not good, unless you are into the whole brevity thing.

Comment by Puddn'head October 4, 2008 @ 1:23 am

Second-worst logo and name in Minor League Baseball.

Comment by joe October 4, 2008 @ 2:54 am

The worst being???

Comment by Mr. Baseball October 6, 2008 @ 5:36 am

This is so stupid…A logo isn’t good if you have to explain it..I thought haven’t a team with the name Komets with a K instead of a C is bad enough but now Tincaps, what the hell is Fort wayne doing? they are truly the dumbest city glad I moved

Comment by Bob January 12, 2009 @ 6:18 pm


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