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Lehigh Valley IronPigs honor weepy legend with Squonk alternate identification – SportsLogos.Net News

The Lehigh Valley IronPigs, Triple-A affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies in the International League, have taken accounts of a grotesque, unhappy mythical creature and turned it into an alternate identity. For one game, the Pigs will play as the Squonk, adopting a brand that portrays a miserable pig-like creature who hides deep in northern Pennsylvania’s hemlock forests.

Per the team, the Squonk was first documented by William T. Cox in his 1910 book Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwood:

“The Squonk is of a very retiring disposition, generally traveling about at twilight and dusk. Because of its misfitting skin, which is covered with warts and moles, it is always unhappy … Hunters who are good at tracking are able to follow a Squonk by its tear-stained trail, for the animal weeps constantly. When cornered and escape seems impossible, or when surprised and frightened, it may even dissolve itself in tears.”

The alternate identity centers around a stressed-out Squonk character peering out of an outline of the state of Pennsylvania—the logo is meant to represent the creature nervously making its first-ever public appearance. A fleshy wordmark spells out Squonk in a texture that evokes hairy, warted skin. Custom caps and on-field jerseys are dark green and brown, colors drawn from the forests where the Squonk lives.

While the Squonk is famously reclusive, the team hopes that turning it into an alternate identity will draw it out of hiding.

“By highlighting the classic Pennsylvania folk legend,” the team said in a statement, “the IronPigs hope to show the Squonk that … it too can be loved and will be found beautiful by the IronPigs fanbase.”

The weepy creature may or may not make an appearance when the IronPigs take the field as the Squonks June 6.

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