The Northern California county of Yolo may have a brand new baseball group in 2024, the Yolo Excessive Wheelers. The group will play on the campus of UC Davis, situated in Yolo County not removed from Sacramento.
The brand contains a stylized, winged penny farthing, a tribute to the truth that Davis, California, is house to the US Bicycling Corridor of Fame. Penny farthings have been a kind of bicycle widespread within the 1870s and Eighteen Eighties—their title coming from British cash, pennies and farthings, which had drastically completely different sizes.
The Excessive Wheelers will probably be a member of the Pioneer League, an MLB accomplice league finest identified for breaking ties after 9 innings with a house run contest. The group is owned by the identical group that not too long ago launched one other Pioneer League group that made a splash, the Oakland Ballers.
The Excessive Wheelers will roll out for the primary time when the Pioneer League begins play in Might.
