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Los Angeles Dodgers Minor League Affiliates: List of Los Angeles Dodgers Minor League Affiliates, Great Lakes Loons, Albuquerque Isotopes |  | Creator: Books LLC
Publisher: Books LLC
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Pages: 52
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.1
ISBN: 1156743028
EAN: 9781156743027
ASIN: 1156743028
Publication Date: May 23, 2010
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: List of Los Angeles Dodgers Minor League Affiliates, Great Lakes Loons, Albuquerque Isotopes, Inland Empire 66ers of San Bernardino, Chattanooga Lookouts, Arizona League Dodgers, Ogden Raptors, Bowling Green Barons, Dominican Summer Dodgers. Excerpt: The Albuquerque Isotopes are a minor league baseball team based in Albuquerque, New Mexico . The team, which plays in the Pacific Coast League , is the Triple-A affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers . Albuquerque was previously represented in the PCL as a Dodgers' affiliate by the Albuquerque Dukes , who won several PCL championships in the 1970s and 1980s before relocating to Portland, Oregon , as the Portland Beavers in 2001. The Isotopes began play in 2003 when the Calgary Cannons relocated to New Mexico .The Isotopes' mascot is Orbit, a big fuzzy electron .Name origins The fictional Springfield Isotopes from the long running TV series The Simpsons were the influence for the new name of the team. In the episode "Hungry, Hungry Homer ", main character Homer Simpson attempts to thwart the team's plan to move to Albuquerque by going on a hunger strike. Subsequently, when an Albuquerque Tribune online survey helped the team decide its new name, "Isotopes" received 67 percent of the 120,000 votes. Though team president Ken Young admitted that the name came from the series, he said at the name's unveiling, "We picked it because over the past year it has become a popular name, and it does have something to do with Albuquerque." In the three months after the team's name was announced in September 2002, before the team ever took the field, the team sold more merchandise than the Albuquerque Dukes sold in any single season, and led minor league baseball in merchandising revenue in 2003. The team said they were able to tell when episodes fe...
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