The Double-A Texas League San Antonio Missions "unveiled Thursday a new logo and uniforms that incorporate the pride" felt locally toward the Alamo, according to Tom Orsborn of the SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS. The team's logo and uniform change, which was designed by San Diego-based Brandiose, "is the club's first" since '94. The Missions' colors as part of the redesign "change from black and gold to midnight blue, Texas sandstone and freedom red." The new colors are "more in keeping with the look of the Missions’ MLB affiliate," the Padres. The Missions' new logo "is an outline of the Alamo with 'San Antonio Missions . . . Since 1888' written across it." The new road logo "includes a coonskin cap, a nod to iconic Alamo defender Davy Crockett." Missions President Burl Yarbrough stressed that the new look "embodies San Antonio’s culture." The team's mascot, Ballapeño, also has "a new look, sporting a coonskin cap, a fringe buckskin jacket, buckskin boots and an angry visage." Brandiose "also came up with the top-selling logos" for the Double-A
Eastern League Richmond Flying Squirrels and Triple-A Int'l League
Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs (SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS, 11/21).
