The Triple-A Lehigh Valley IronPigs have honored canines with alternate identities quite a lot of occasions, taking part in choose video games over time because the Corgis, IronMutts, IronWeiners, and IronPugs. However for the primary time, the group pays tribute to canines’ finicky, clawful cousins once they take the sphere because the Lehigh Valley Cats for a sport this season. (And I say this as an individual who likes cats.)
Minor League Baseball followers are aware of Hillcats, Fisher Cats, River Cats, ValleyCats, and even Mudcats, however Lehigh Valley will likely be taking part in as common previous kitty cats, with a emblem that includes a bespectacled tabby home cat doing what cats do, lounging round and plotting the place it can deposit its subsequent hairball.
“I realized we were dog-centric for years and how irresponsible it’s been to not recognize the thousands of cat-lovers we have in the Lehigh Valley,” mentioned IronPigs President and Normal Supervisor Kurt Landes in a press release. “It was a CATastrophe that needed fixed, and this was the purrrfect solution.”
The group invitations cat house owners to deliver their leashed, harnessed, or crated cats to the “Caturday” sport, the place followers will sing “Take Meow’t to the Ballgame.” Jerseys worn by the IronPigs will likely be auctioned off and hats entered right into a cap raffle to profit the Lehigh Valley Humane Society. As well as the group will invite native cat rescue organizations who’re devoted to rescuing, rehabilitating and rehoming cats to the sport.
The Cats will take the sphere April 27.
