The treasures buried all through Greenville, North Carolina, will likely be rather a lot safer with the addition of the Coastal Plain League’s latest crew, the collegiate wooden bat Greenville Yard Gnomes, whose identification is tied to the town’s previous and current. The nickname beat out 4 different finalists in a name-the-team contest: Ballhogs, Booty, Scallywags, and Peglegs.
The crew teased the revealing with a video that began with the legend, “In the land of Pirates… the treasure must be protected.” Per the crew’s clarification, gnomes are recognized for guarding treasure, which there’s a whole lot of in Greenville as a result of the town is house to the Jap Carolina College Pirates, who in fact are nicely know for his or her buried treasure.
Technically, the nickname Yard Gnomes was not one of many finalists within the name-the-team contest—it was really Backyard Gnomes. However when it was all mentioned and performed, the crew went with the nickname Yard Gnomes moderately than the backyard number of the tiny magical humanoids as a result of baseball is performed in a yard, not a backyard.
The Yard Gnomes will put on inexperienced jerseys, a wink and a nod to a Greenville crew that performed in a earlier iteration of the Coastal Plain League, the Class D Greenville Greenies, circa 1937–1941.
The 18-team Coastal Plain League will start play Might 23, when the Yard Gnomes tackle the Tri-Metropolis Chili Peppers.
