List of Major League Baseball mascots
The following is a list of mascots of Major League Baseball teams:
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National League
- Baxter D. Bobcat -- a gray wildcat-like figure
- Chief Noc-A-Homa (1960s-1983)
- Homer -- a humanoid with a baseball head
- Rally -- a red fuzzy monster with blue hair
- none
- Dinger -- a purple triceratops-like figure
- Billy The Marlin -- a marlin-like figure with legs
- Junction Jack -- a brown rabbit-like figure, 7-foot tall, dressed as a railroad worker
- Junction Jesse
- Junction Jilie
- General Admission, retired when the Astros moved to Minute Maid Park in 2000.
- Orbitty, and outer space creature when the team played in the Astrodome untill 1999, when it was retired.
- none
- 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)
- Phillie Phanatic -- a green fuzzy monster with a sprout-shaped mouth
- Pirate Parrot -- a green parrot-like figure, wearing a pirate's hat featuring a skull and crossbones
- The Famous Chicken of San Diego
- Swinging Friar -- a person dressed as a friar, swinging a baseball bat
- Crazy Crab -- the legendary "anti-mascot" intended as satire (1984 only)
- Lou Seal -- a gray seal-like figure
- Fredbird -- a red bird-like figure
- Screech -- a six-foot, two inch tall eagle with a Washington Nationals jersey and cap.
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American League
- The Bird -- a black and orange-colored bird-like figure that resembles the oriole in the team's logo from 1967 to 2002.
- Wally the Green Monster -- a green fuzzy monster named after a famous wall behind left field in Fenway Park, the home of the Red 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.
- Chief Wahoo -- Native American caricature
- Slider -- a purple fuzzy monster with yellow spots and eyebrows
- probably named after slider, a baseball pitch
- 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
- Rally Monkey -- a real monkey named Katie that has also appeared in TV shows such as Friends
- TC (or TC Bear) -- a bear-like figure
- The letters 'TC', which are featured on the team's logo, also stand for Twin Cities (Minneapolis-St. Paul)
- none
- Mariner Moose -- a large anthropomorphic moose wearing a team uniform
- Raymond -- a blue fuzzy monster
- 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
- BJ Birdie -- a blue bird-like figure
- retired a few years ago
- Ace -- A blue jay-like figure.
- Diamond -- a female blue jay-like figure that debuted, retired after the 2004 season.
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See also
- Curse of the Billy Goat -- considered by some a "mascot" for decades of futility for the Chicago Cubs
- Youppi of the Montreal Expos -- an orange-colored fuzzy monster that retired when the team left Montreal and moved to Washington, D.C. after the 2004 season. He's now the mascot of the NHL hockey team Montreal Canadiens.
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