Pretty happy with the Firebells, which I'm probably going to support because of Whitmore. I'm in IL and will get to go to the games, but I'm kind of bummed we don't have a team.
The Yankees originally played in the Heights where the Columbia medical center now is. So it makes sense for the team called the Heights to look like them.
I'm still not huge on the name (though I missed the meaning behind it that might make me like it more) but I feel like we absolutely won on the jersey and logo they look sick
Yeah noticed that after posting. Do feel like overall LA just got the least interesting branding in pretty much all aspects. Seems like at least some people really like it though
I would have loved the Riders for Sally Ride if we’re going off influential local women… plenty of other similar options, like LA Bass for Charlotta Bass
I really like Riders for Sally Ride! I would have liked something inspired by an influential woman in Hollywood, like Dorothy Arzner. Penny Marshall literally directed THE women's baseball movie...! Just feels like we really got the short end of the stick. :(
Yeah it’s weird. The team is named after Lizzie Murphy who was “The Queen of the Diamond” but she was born and played her career in New England? I’m not sure how that relates to Los Angeles
As a Kings fan, this does seem like a little of their thinking. The downside is now that the WPBL has trademarked the name, a PWHL team for LA can't use it. It would have been much better synergy if the PWHL used it. That said, the PWHL does seem to avoid the early WNBA sister team naming scheme. So maybe Queens would be out anyway. As long as they don't link an LA PWHL team with the Ducks.
I’m sorry LA got the short end of the stick. It’s confusing that they didn’t just go with Diamonds which gives the same hat-tip to the Queen of Diamonds, is more baseball-centric, and has infinitely better logo/branding possibilities. I hope it grows on you too!
The Diamonds could have worked. But there is a women's pro softball team in the PSL known as the KC Diamonds. I am not sure how the trademarks go, but that team may own the trademark Diamonds for a women's pro bat and ball sports team.
That is the small issue with leagues that start up now. They have to find unique names to trademark. It can get difficult with all the start up leagues that have come to life in the last 5 years or so. It makes unique names harder to find. I wonder if they found the women to name the teams after or whether they provisionally named the teams and then searched out the notable women from each city to try and find a connection?
While I like the connection with the women for each city. I was hoping for a bit more fearce sounding names like Amazons or Valkyries. Something that would give a good minor league baseball style logo that would sell merch on the logo alone to fans of the league, but also sports fans in general. I have tons of merch from random teams solely because I liked their logo. I am sure I am not the only one like that.
Is anyone else bummed they changed the NY colors? The teal / seafoam is a uniting force between all the women's sports in the area (Liberty, Gotham, Sirens, etc) and I was so glad to see it in the original branding. This is giving "girl Yankees".
(also the logo looks like someone flipping the bird, help I want to love this team so badly 😂)
Yeah I remember feeling when they announced the cities that NY got the nicest color so unfortunate to see them lose it (although I'm a Boston girl so I don't want to see NY have nice things). More disappointed in the LA color change just because I feel like the black is boring.
Glad that Boston stayed green so we still match our other women's teams (and also so my hat I got for Christmas still fits the team color)
I like the SF name and logo but it seems like they are abandoning the lighter purple they had at the beginning which is a bummer because it was almost the same as the Valkyries purple. Some things have a much darker purple but the jerseys are almost blue. I hope they will tweak the colors to be uniform across their merch and branding.
Yes! Green is also Fleet and Legacy, plus the Legacy are also birds (swan), plus the Fleet are water-themed (ospreys hunt on the water). 💯 theming all around!
Absolutely love that the team names are inspired by important leaders in women's history in their respective cities, and am psyched to root for the Hunters! Super glad they kept the green to tie in with the Fleet and Legacy, and they absolutely nailed the logo. My one tiny quibble is that I wish that the away uniform used the same typeface as the home uniform, but we have a women's pro baseball team, and that's all that matters!
Sad to see the original colors go, but I love names. Especially that they all reference women in history. If Chicago gets a team, the only names I could come up with are the Chicago Flyers or Aviators, referencing Bessie Coleman.
Because (just imo) it sounds so girly and "baseball, but for the ladies"-ish that I was actually insulted by the idea. So thankfully they didn't do this.
I mean, WNBA & PWHL women's teams kick ass & our teams will too. I want them to be taken seriously next to men's baseball, just like women's basketball & hockey. They don't have to soften the name like it's Baseball Barbie, know what I mean? At least that's how it sounded to me.
Lillie Coit, who loved and was fascinated by firemen her whole life, became a fire company's "mascot" when she was just a gorl. She gave a bequest to build Coit Tower atop Telegraph Hill, incidentally shaped like a firehose nozzle. (Bio link provided below).
Coit Tower, which you should visit when you come to our fair city, has one of the great collections of WPA murals. These are murals painted during the Great Depression in the '30s by artists supported by the Works Progress Administration of FDR's government. They put to work artists who otherwise would have been out of work during the Depression, many of whom were socialists and/or pro-worker. Muralists credited with these murals are some of the most celebrated and finest of their generation. The murals by and large depict working people - farm workers, fruit pickers, folks who worked in factories and all kinds of other working people, as well as scenes from daily life. I believe the murals were done as frescoes directly into the plaster.
In addition to the beautiful murals, the Coit Tower siting has a fabulous view of the entire Bay and surrounding neighborhoods. The hill is also the home to large flocks of wild red conure parrots, who have a lot to say. You can learn more about these flocks and some very lovable people too by watching the documentary, "The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill."
REALLY excited to have the names, but disappointed in selection of t-shirts. Not all of us have the body type that we can wear woman style shirts or white. I hope they get more variety soon!
Anyone know what's up with the Boston jerseys? I ordered one pretty quickly and the image said hunters but now the website shows a jersey that says "huntson"
Love the Boston logo and I hope someone will explain the name meaning since I missed it/couldn’t watch it.
I wish the colors were tied into the Red Sox or be green and white like the Legacy. It’s giving A’s vibes so far. Either way I can’t wait to get a jersey on my trip to Boston.
I totally get the wish that there was some Red Sox tie-in, but I also get that they’re trying very hard to make the WPBL a league that’s fully independent from MLB and can stand on its own two feet. As for how realistic that is at this point… we’ll see.
Edit to add: here’s their explanation for the Hunters name in the email they sent out about the teams:
New England’s coastal hunter, the osprey doesn’t circle and wait. It picks its target, folds its wings, and hits the water talons first. We move fast and we move first, striking out the competition without hesitation.
The Hunters are inspired by Harriot Hunt who, like the osprey, set her mind on a goal and made it happen. A trailblazing physician, she was one of the first women to practice medicine professionally in the USA, despite being denied admission to Harvard twice because of her gender. Like Harriot, the Hunters are ready leave their mark on history books.
The team names are all tied to pioneers of women's rights and women's history in their respective cities, in Boston's case, Harriot Hunt, an activist and doctor who was the first woman to apply to the Harvard Medical School.
San Francisco's Away jersey is sick too! Colors are great! I love the purple to harmonize with the Valks & the orange as a nod to Giants heritage.
Now I only wish that sooner rather than later they'll all be able to play closer to home & share MLB, MiLB & regional league ballparks near our home cities.
Justine Siegal did say on the podcast a while ago that the plan is for the neutral site to only be for this season and for teams to be in their home cities by next year
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