NC minor league baseball mascots are zany. Which do you love most?

By Jodie Valade

Updated April 8, 2022 9:56 AM

Minor league baseball mascots from around North Carolina are unique. Minor League Baseball

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Baseball may be heralded as America’s pastime, but you don’t have to know all the stats to enjoy the return of the sport this spring. More than 2 million fans will occupy seats at any of the 12 Minor League Baseball stadiums in North Carolina this season. That means there’s something for everyone: from following your hometown team to seeing the advent of robot umpires, and much more.

Part 1: Minor league baseball in NC will draw 2 million fans in 2022. Here’s how to see all 12 teams

Minor League Baseball teams have some pretty creative nicknames. Cannon Ballers? Crawdads? Need we say more?

Even better, some of those creatively nicknamed teams have some adorable and fuzzy mascots.

We want to know which North Carolina Minor League Baseball mascot is your very favorite. Vote in our poll below.

This story was originally published April 8, 2022 at 5:00 AM.

Jodie Valade

The Charlotte Observer

Jodie Valade is a former Planning and Enterprise Editor at The Charlotte Observer. She has also worked at WFAE as a digital editor, and freelanced for publications such as The Athletic, The Washington Post and The New York Times. She was a longtime, award-winning sports features and enterprise reporter at The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio. She also worked at The Dallas Morning News covering the Dallas Mavericks — where she became Mark Cuban’s lifelong email pen pal — and at The Kansas City Star. Support my work with a digital subscription

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