LIST OF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL MASCOTS

The following is a list of mascots of Major League Baseball teams:

Contents

National League

Reference & External link

National League

Arizona Diamondbacks:

★ ''D. Baxter the Bobcat'' -- a gray bobcat-like figure
Atlanta Braves:

★ ''Chief Noc-A-Homa'' (1960s-1983)

★ ''Homer the Brave'' -- a humanoid with a baseball head

★ ''Rally'' -- a red fuzzy monster with blue hair
Chicago Cubs:

★ None.
Colorado Rockies:

★ ''Dinger'' -- a purple triceratops-like figure (dinosaur bones were found at the Coors Field construction site)
Cincinnati Reds:

★ ''Mr. Red''

★ ''Gapper'' -- a red fuzzy monster with a backwards cap
Florida Marlins:

★ ''Billy The Marlin'' -- a marlin-like figure with legs
Houston Astros:

★ ''Junction Jack'' -- a brown rabbit-like figure, 7-foot tall, dressed as a railroad worker

★ ''Junction Jesse''

★ ''Junction Jilie''

★ ''General Admission''-- human non-costumed mascot in uniform, retired when the Astros moved to Minute Maid Park in 2000.

★ ''Orbit'', an outer space creature when the team played in the Astrodome until 1999, when it was retired.

★ ''The Conductor''-- human non-costumed mascot in uniform. Mans the train located in Minute Maid Park.
Los Angeles Dodgers:

★ Emmett Kelly's famous "Weary Willie" character (used only in 1957, the team's final season in Brooklyn).
Milwaukee Brewers:

★ ''Beer Barrel Man'' -- an anthropomorphic beer keg, first used by a minor league Milwaukee Brewers in the 1940s

★ ''Bernie Brewer'' -- a blond, white male with a moustache and green eyes

★ ''Bonnie Brewer'' -- female companion of Bernie, young blonde woman in lederhosen (1973-1979)
Montreal Expos (now the Washington Nationals):

★ ''Youppi!'' -- (1979-2004), an orange giant with big head and legs. Youppi! is now the NHL Montreal Canadiens mascot.
New York Mets:

★ ''Mr. Met'' -- a baseball-headed humanoid; The first Mascot used in Major League Baseball

★ ''Lady Met'' -- female counterpart of Mr. Met in the 1960s and 1970s
Philadelphia Phillies:

★ ''Phillie Phanatic'' -- a green fuzzy monster with a spout-shaped mouth

★ ''Phil and Phillis'' -- a boy and girl dressed in Revolutionary War uniforms, debuted with Veterans Stadium in 1971 and retired after the 1979 season, when the old Home Run Spectacular was retired.

Pittsburgh Pirates:

★ ''Pirate Parrot'' -- a green parrot-like figure, wearing a pirate's hat featuring a skull and crossbones

★ ''Captain Jolly Roger''-- The Pirates unveiled a new mascot on May 27, 2006, and a fan poll among kids gave him his name, based on the Jolly Roger flag. The new mascot is dressed as a pirate with a beard and pirate clothes.
San Diego Padres:

★ ''The Famous Chicken of San Diego''

★ ''Swinging Friar'' -- a person dressed as a friar, swinging a baseball bat
San Francisco Giants:

★ ''Crazy Crab'' -- the legendary "anti-mascot" intended as satire (1984 only)

★ ''Lou Seal'' -- a gray seal-like figure
St. Louis Cardinals:

★ ''Fredbird the Redbird'' -- a red bird-like figure
Washington Nationals:

★ ''Screech'' -- a six-foot, two inch tall eagle with a Washington Nationals jersey and cap.
== American League ==
Baltimore Orioles:

★ ''The Bird'' -- a black and orange-colored bird-like figure that resembles the oriole in the team's logo from 1967 to 2002.
Boston Red Sox:

★ ''Wally the Green Monster'' -- a green fuzzy monster named after the famous left field wall at Fenway Park, the home of the Red Sox
Chicago White Sox:

★ ''Andy the Clown'' (1960-1990) -- a fan who performed unofficially

★ ''Ribbie and Roobarb'' (1981-1988)

★ ''Southpaw'' -- a black, silver, green and yellow fuzzy monster (a southpaw is the baseball term for a left-handed pitcher)
Cleveland Indians:

★ ''The Baseball Bug''-- An insect-like figure from 1980-1981

★ ''Chief Wahoo'' -- Native American caricature

★ ''Slider'' -- a light purple fuzzy monster with yellow spots and eyebrows (probably named after the slider, a baseball pitch)
Detroit Tigers:

★ ''Paws'' -- a tiger-like figure.
Kansas City Royals:

★ ''Sluggerrrr'' -- a lion-like figure, wearing a crown (the word slugger also refers to a powerful batter with a high percentage of extra base hits)
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim:

★ ''Rally Monkey'' -- a real monkey named Katie that has also appeared in TV shows such as ''Friends''. Unlike most mascots, she never appears live; instead, she appears on video, typically when the Angels are tied or trailing while batting in the 7th inning or later, with a runner on base.
Minnesota Twins:

★ ''TC'' (or ''TC Bear'') -- a bear figure supposedly descended from the Hamm's Beer Bear.

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★ The letters 'TC', which were once featured on the team's logo and are still on one version of the players' caps (alternating with the cap bearing an 'M'), stand for Twin Cities (Minneapolis-St. Paul)

★ ''Twinkie'' a bird sometime before 1981 [1]

★ ''Hamm's Beer Bear'' -- A bear used in Twins' sponsor Hamm's Beer ads during Twins games. (1960s)
New York Yankees:

★ ''Dandy'' -- a large pinstriped bird, named for the song "Yankee Doodle Dandy," portrayed by a high school student in 1980 but was beaten up by fans who didn't want a mascot, and quit, leading to the elimination of the character
Oakland Athletics:

★ ''Charlie O.'' -- a mule (1963-1976, dating back to the team's days in Kansas City, in the tradition of the Missouri mule, named for team owner Charles O. Finley)

★ ''Stomper'' -- an elephant, as featured on the team's logo (a revival of the logo the team used in Philadelphia)
Seattle Mariners:

★ ''Mariner Moose'' -- a large anthropomorphic moose wearing a team uniform
Tampa Bay Devil Rays:

★ ''Raymond'' -- a blue fuzzy monster, sometimes described as a very fuzzy manatee
Texas Rangers:

★ ''Rootin' Tootin' Ranger'' -- similar to Yosemite Sam, briefly used in the late 1970's.

★ ''Rangers Captain'' -- a palomino-style horse, dressed as a Texas Ranger in red, white and blue, wears the uniform number "72" in honor of 1972, the year the Rangers relocated to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
Toronto Blue Jays:

★ ''Ace'' -- A blue jay-like figure.

★ ''BJ Birdie'' -- A blue bird-like figure. Mascot from 1979 to December 1999, his retirement was never officially announced.

★ ''Diamond'' -- a female blue jay-like figure that retired after the 2004 season.

Reference & External link

★ MLB.com: Kids' Club