Re: [IRCA] 2006 Minor League Baseball Flagships - Pacific CoastLeague(AAA)

["Russ Johnson" <k3pi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Las Vegas 51's are a reference to the famous Area 51
The logo is an alien with baseball stiching on his forehead.
I am wearing their cap right now!
( I have a friend who just moved out there and I always wanted that cap)

Russ Johnson
Lexington NC (living near the Winston Salem Warthogs and Greensboro Grasshoppers...man that Greensboro name stinks)

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Mike Brooker" <aum108@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America<irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:  Mon, 10 Apr 2006 21:18:14 -0400

>>
>> Albuquerque Isotopes   610-KNML-Albuquerque NM
>
>Isotopes?  So instead of the player's names on the backs of the uniforms, do 
>they have the name of the element whose atomic number matches the player's 
>number (Hydrogen, #1, Helium, #2, Lithium, #3, etc.)
>
>>> Las Vegas 51's   1460-KENO-Las Vegas NV/870-KLSQ-Whitney NV (a)
>
>49ers, 76ers, 67s (Ottawa), I get.  But why 51s?  Did Nevada achieve 
>statehood in 1851, or is there some other reason?
>
>Gotta love those minor league team names!
>
>> New Orleans Zephyrs   690-WIST-New Orleans LA
>
>Is this team actually playing in New Orleans?  Or have they temporarily 
>re-located post-Katrina, like the Saints and Hornets?
>
>
>73
>
>Mike Brooker
>Toronto, ON
>
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