On Wednesday, the Jamestown Jammers, a team in the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League, announced their new team name after taking suggestions from fans over the past several months. The new name? The Jamestown Tarp Skunks.
Why Tarp Skunks? What do skunks have to do with tarps? You might ask.
The name comes from the city’s history with the smelly mammal. According to the team’s General Manager Frank Fanning, the “Tarp” part of the name comes from “Mr. Howard Ehmke, former Chautauqua County resident, MLB Pitcher … and the founder of the Ehmke Manufacturing Company – who produced the original infield tarp. He is proudly our Father of the Infield Tarp.”
The other part of the name, according to Fanning, represents “a creature which has made a habit of pestering and wreaking havoc on baseball team employees for decades at Diethrick Park; specifically living inside the infield tarp and under the visiting bullpen’s bench. Skunks are also seen wandering the concourse in the evenings.”
The logos were created by minor league baseball’s favorite design firm recently, Brandiose.
