More extinct animals, the
passenger pigeon and the
Carolina parakeet. The last passenger pigeon, Martha, died in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914, the last Carolina parakeet there in 1918.
My excuse here is a narrative where the Cincinnati baseball team has a normal early 20th century baseball name, and is terrible for years, then suddenly wins the pennant in 1914, after a newspaper column declares "they have as much chance of surviving as the last passenger pigeon". Basically the exact story of the 1914 Boston Braves.
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Pretty proud of my idea to leave the bird drawing unfinished in the middle of the logo to suggest that it is disappearing. I used the same colors so that Carolina can be a minor league team of Cincinnati in my league.
Have been unable to come up with a crossover for
Iggy Pop and the passenger pigeon