How about an entire league? Minor league baseball’s New York-Penn League was originally the Pennsylvania-Ontario-New York League - the PONY League.
Funny you say that. 2 weeks ago my brother and I were looking at the minor league baseball names and I got a huge kick out of the Albuquerque isotopes. He bought me a tee shirt of theirs for Christmas.
Moved to the Game Room.
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They could be leading Ligue Un due to the element of surprise. Nobody expects the Spanish Obstetrician.
I like the name Cygnets.
In their inaugural season (1919), the team which would become the Green Bay Packers went 10-1. Their only loss, in their final game, was to the Beloit Fairies.
Did you happen to notice the Las Vegas 51s? Las Vegas Aviators - Wikipedia
University of California at Santa Cruz Banana Slugs. There are also schools who have Boll Weevils as their mascot.
They took their name from an episode of The Simpsons.
Heh. Crazy looking scores there, and to lose in a 6-0 game for the final game of the season when averaging scores looking like 51-0 for the rest of the season. I had to look this up to see what the deal with that name was, and apparently it’s because the team was sponsored by Fairbanks Morse and Company, hence Fairies (from Fairbanks.)
Oh, sure, everyone knows about the Banana Slugs, but they aren’t specifically juvenile. Neither are weevils. But maggots are.
The Junior Australia Football Team is called the “Joeys”
Lancaster, PA, also had Chicks for a couple of seasons. Not generally a region known for Chickasaws.
The same season the Lancaster Chicks started, Little Rock had Rose Buds.
Sure joeys are cute, but they’re older. Considering what most baby marsupials and monotremes look like, I was hoping there would be a team called the “Woolloomooloo Oh Dear God, What the Hell is That!?”
(Echidna babies are apparently unofficially called “puggles.”)
Likewise, my high school was the Bulldogs. The swim team was known as the Bullfrogs, the cheerleaders were known as the Bulldolls, and the junior high school on the same campus was the Bullpups.
The reason the aforementioned Wildkits have that as their mascot name is because they are located in Evanston, Illinois which is home of the Northwestern University Wildcats.
As noted above, Ponies are not baby horses, they are different breeds (usually under 15 hands, but measures vary).
The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League had a team called Chicks. They started out in Milwaukee in 1944 then moved to Grand Rapids for the 1945-54 seasons.
Wonder if it’s a Jesuit thing. I went to Rockhurst High School, where the mascot is the Hawklets - Rockhurst University is the Hawks.
I went to a Catholic high school, run by the Norbertine Order, which was next door to St. Norbert College (also run by the order). The college teams were the Green Knights; our teams were the Squires (not baby animals, so much as junior knights).
This is sort of pre-baby, but there was a minor league team in Macon, GA called the Macon Whoopie