That same year, Baseball America published a list of 42 minor league teams that could lose their affiliations. The LumberKings and Bees were both on the list. So were the River Bandits ...

In the spring of 1986, he was the 31-year-old general manager of a low-level minor ... league’s director of baseball operations. But he never experienced anything quite like the 1986 Bees ...

The Chesapeake Baysox, like every affiliated minor league ... logos, part of their "Oystercatchers" alternate identity. The since-removed logo shows a pearl in an oyster in a baseball glove.

And now the effort is under review by Minor League Baseball. Here’s why. The team, the Double-A affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles -- shared two logos. One is a bird perched on a bat ...