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| Let's go Bats! |
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| Pee Wee |
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| Red Birds' hats |
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| Red Birds jersey |
When in Louisville, it’s always fun to take in a Bats game. Slugger Field is one of the best6 of minor league baseball with its entry though an old warehouse ala Baltimore’s Camden. The Pee Wee Reese statue is a good companion to the Pee Wee -Jackie statue in Brooklyn,
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| Pee Wee and Jackie |
commemorating Pee Wee’s embrace of Jackie in Cincinnatti with his family and friends in the hostile crowd. The entryway currently makes much of Louisville’s history as the Red Birds, AAA franchise of the St.Louis Cardinals with uniforms, hats and all.
This latest Internatjonal League incarnation would have liked to have been known as Sluggers but that was too corporate to be allowed so the next best was Bats which led to a pun as in flying bats (originally River Bats). Starting with purple, black snd green,
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| Go River Bats |
the bats have now adopted their parent Reds black and red colors.  |
| Bats |
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| Red Birds |
They may have more alternative identities than any other minor league team. With a hat for each. They throw back as Red Birds. Play Derby time as the Mint Juleps and on regular rotation as the (sour) Mashers. And as part of Minor Leagues outreach to the Hispanic community...through the annual Copa de Divertido program, los Cielagos de Louisville, or Louisville Bats in Spanish. So on this Wednesdsay I wear my new Maracielagos hat.
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| MInt Juleps |
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| Mashers |
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| Marcielagos |
Hats off to the Bats, hat on for los Maracielagos
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