Quote Originally Posted by Mississippi Blues View Post
Figured this wasn’t worth starting a new thread over but is there a short story to why the 89ers changed their name to the RedHawks? I was very young when that happened so I remember going to games in their final season at All Sports Stadium but nothing beyond that.
From what I heard the RedHawks branding started as part of an attempt to bringing in a higher tier hockey team, since there was either overlap or partnership with the group running 89ers, when that failed they decided to apply the merch/branding to the existing local baseball team.