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Avoid looking directly at the logos with out protective eyewear. Minor League Baseball clubs along the path that today’s total eclipse will be taking part in promotions. MiLB calls the coordinated series of events “Total Eclipse of the Park,” which includes giving out branded glasses and holding watch parties.
Some teams have gone the extra mile to rebrand with new uniforms. The majority of Minor League affiliated teams have Mondays off, which is why we’ve seen these uniforms over the weekend.
This weekend, in Little Rock (Arkansas), the Double-A Arkansas Travelers donned jerseys that featured the team logo against a dark circle, blocking the sun. Today, the team will be hosting a viewing event but there is no match.
The High-A Lake County captains in Eastlake, Ohio wore blackout jerseys that they sold after the game. They sold merchandise with their logo featuring the captain wearing eclipse glasses.
Triple-A Rochester Red Wings changed their name to the Moon RocsThe alternate logo featured Spikes, their mascot in an astronaut’s suit holding an American flag. Moon Rocs was represented by a typographic space age mark which depicted the moon and sun as two O’s next to each other.
The Triple-A Lehigh Valley IronPigs wore “Space Pigs,” specialized uniforms in Rochester, even though Allentown, Pennsylvania isn’t on the path. They wore their metallic pig in a suit of space armor on alternate jerseys during a game against the Moon Rocs in Rochester, April 5-7.
Today, more than 31 individuals along the path will see the eclipse. This begins shortly after 11:00am Pacific along Mexico’s Pacific coastline and continues until approximately 5:16pm Eastern Time as the eclipse leaves Newfoundland.
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