I have celebrated my fair share of wacky holidays on this blog recently but with St. Patrick's Day coming up this weekend, I am once again going rogue by celebrating a different holiday in its place. Well, I suppose St. Urho's Day is not entirely different as it is also a playfully fabricated celebration of a saint who chased away a threat menacing his people.
While the hero of St. Patrick's Day weilded a staff to rid Ireland of its snakes, St. Urho, according to Friends of Finland Community, saved Finnish grape grops from the grasshoppers that almost ruined the harvest with a trident. So of course a cap with a green visor and a snarling ocelot holding a clava (spanish for "club") is the natural choice for this week's Fresh Fitted Friday post.
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| Greensboro selected "ocelotes" for their Copa de la Diversión identity as a nod to the three ocelots currently residing in the South American habitat at the North Carolina Zoo in nearby Asheboro, NC. |
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| The lemon-lime "Sprite" motif is a fun one to see on the MILB batterman here. |
Even though I'm a Virginia native, most of my favorite logos have been the ones worn by teams in North Carolna cities such as Asheville, Hickory, and Greensboro during the 1990s. I am a big fan of the various Asheville Tourists and some of the alternates worn by the Hickory Crawdads however the Greensboro Grasshoppers designs have been hard for me to connect with.
I think a big reason for that is grasshoppers must be really hard to convey graphically so what you usually see is a cartoonish glob of green and black and putting that logo on a dark green cap only muddies things up more. At best the design has alien characteristics which is why the Marvel design works well although I wish it were more "baseball-oriented" somehow.
Luckily—get it? Because it's St. Patrick's Day?!?!—Greensboro has a new set of logos for 2024 which are currently only available to purchase from the team directly. The "home" hat is my current favorite however the green cap and visor swallow the logo similar to what happened with the previous version so perhaps they will tweak it a bit. Or maybe I will just get used to it!
This week's Fresh Fitted Friday selection is not going on the Trading Block however please don't hesitate to reach out if you want any other cap from that list and you are willing to part with any of the hats on my Wish List.
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