American Baseball League

ksm3939 · 10-13-2017, 02:10 AM

I've begun working on a 16 team fictional league spanning America, representing some smaller market cities that generally dont have sports. I'm making all of the logos from scratch, and I've finished the league logo and one of the teams' logo sets (if anyone would like to see).Anyways, I need some help coming up with a final nickname/seeing if anyone has any better ideas for the nicknames. I'm sure that there is lots of "writer's block" for this kind of stuff on here but I figured maybe someone has an idea.

East

North

Cleveland Lakers

Hartford Nutmegs

Richmond Generals

Syracuse Corinthians

South

St. Pete Sunshine

New Orleans Mystics

Charlotte Emeralds

Memphis Rivermen

West

Midwest

Minneapolis Futures

Madison Trappers

Austin Bats

Oklahoma City Cyclones

Pacific

Portland Pacifics

Sacramento Argonauts

New Mexico (UFOs, ETs, Visitors, Atoms, Atomics?)

Salt Lake City Alpines

Teams I'm not in love with:
Hartford Nutmegs seems like a minor league team name but I like the city/state but I just couldn't come up with anything remarkably baseball

New Orleans Mystics might be hard to illustrate, plus mystics is a WNBA team, but I like the voodoo theme... obviously 'Magic' and 'Wizards' has been done before

Memphis is just kind of boring to me, might change the city but Its gotta be somehwere in the south east

New Mexico: can't come up with anything outside of Roswell, White Sands testing, or the Zia sun symbol, maybe a different state would be better for this franchise

SLC might be better called "Utah"... I like the Colorado Rockies type theme and there aren't many real cities in the mountain range so SLC is kind of my only other choice

Any help or input is appreciate, thanks!

kjb023 · 10-13-2017, 04:54 AM

Anxious to see these!

smythejd · 10-13-2017, 06:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ksm3939

Memphis is just kind of boring to me, might change the city but Its gotta be somehwere in the south east

How about Birmingham Freedom.

Always liked Birmingham as a sports city and Freedom would pull from the 60's...

And i second kjb023.. I also would love to see these teams.

Bottom Of The Sixth · 10-13-2017, 08:20 PM

Cleveland Commodores
Cleveland Cubs
Cleveland Rams
Cleveland Browns

Hartford Whalers

Richmond Grays
Richmond Rebels

New Orleans Pelicans
New Orleans Crescents

Memphis Red Sox

Minneapolis Muskies

Madison Maple Leafs

Oklahoma City Indians

Portland Beavers

Albuquerque Roadrunners

SantaFe Thunderbirds
SantaFe Super Chiefs

Salt Lake City Bees

If you are interested in seeing what minor league teams actually existed in real life, check out this very helpful link.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/team.cgi

smythejd · 10-13-2017, 08:29 PM

How about the Cleveland Rockers

Elektranaut · 10-14-2017, 06:19 AM

Cleveland crusaders

ksm3939 · 10-14-2017, 12:16 PM

All good ideas, unfortunately you guys are giving a lot of suggestions for the teams that I've pretty much made up my mind for lol

kjb023 · 10-15-2017, 02:25 AM

Just to throw my two cents in, I actually love the Hartford Nutmegs. I think when your league is this big you can afford a few "weird" team names. As for the other teams you mentioned not being sure of:

New Orleans Mystics - I like it. But if you wanna keep the "voodoo" theme, I guess you could just go with Voodoo.

Memphis - If you wanna get rid of Memphis that would leave that particular division as New Orleans, St. Pete, and Charlotte. Those are pretty spread out, so I'd say something like Atlanta or Birmingham that would be sort of in the middle. Or if you wanna go smaller Pensacola, or somewhere in South Carolina. Charleston? Myrtle Beach?

New Mexico - I like the Atomics. It might be a little similar to the Albuquerque Isotopes if you're worried about real-life similarities. Maybe something like Coyotes or Roadrunners?

SLC - I think Salt Lake City Alpines has a mcuh better ring to it then Utah Alpines.

DreamTeams · 10-15-2017, 02:24 PM

Here are some ideas...

Hartford Colonials
Hartford Constitutions
Hartford Atlantics

New Orleans Mystics (favorite)
New Orleans Dukes
New Orleans Crescents

New Mexico Pueblos
New Mexico Volcanos

Salt Lake City or Utah Pioneers
Salt Lake City or Utah Barons

kjb023 · 10-17-2017, 07:57 PM

So this is dead, I guess?

ksm3939 · 10-18-2017, 02:37 AM

Nah I'm still working on stuff, I've finalized the cities and nicknames but I'll try to put out the first team logo set and the league logo tomorrow

ksm3939 · 10-18-2017, 02:46 PM

The American Baseball League, or ABL is a league comprised of 16 teams split into 2 subleagues and 4 divisions. The general theme behind the league is that the cities that the teams hail from are small to mid markets. I will likely expand the league to 18 or 20 teams within the first few years once I finally have all of the logos made and everything up and running. Currently, every team has only 1 minor league team as I wanted the league to feel "small." As of now I am unsure whether or not I will be making all custom logos for the minor league affiliates. The current league structure is as follows:

East

North
Cleveland Lakers
Hartford Nutmegs
Richmond Generals
Syracuse Corinthians

South
St. Pete Sunshine
New Orleans Mystics
Charlotte Emeralds
Memphis Rivermen

West

Midwest
Minneapolis Futures
Madison Trappers
Austin Bats
Oklahoma City Cyclones

Pacific
Portland Pacifics
Sacramento Argonauts
New Mexico Atomics
Salt Lake City Alpines

Possible locations for expansion include Seattle, Newfoundland, Colorado, Georgia, PA, and Illinois

Thanks for the input everyone, here is the ABL small and large logos, made with affinity designer like everything else... feel free to use any of the stuff in this thread, just be sure to credit me if you're going to post with it!

ksm3939 · 10-18-2017, 02:56 PM

This logo was started initially as a team i was going to call the Seattle Aces, I made the entire background of the design based off the Mariners' circle logo and originally there was going to be a plane sort of coming out from the center with a little stream behind it, but the stream looked like the rings on a planet when i was messing around with it. So I changed the whole color scheme to look like Saturn and ended up with an Astros type vibe. I came up with the nickname pretty quickly and remembered that Minneapolis is a relatively young, clean city so I went with it for the city. I was making this logo before I came up with the idea for the league and I liked the logo so much that I ended up planning this whole thing. I messed around with a sort of 50s futurism idea for the font but settled for this. The M definitely looks like the marlins but I'm aware of it so it's alright. I'm pretty proud of this one and they will have a minor league team based in St. Cloud. Here is the logo, small logo, and potential cap logo for the Futures.

kjb023 · 10-18-2017, 03:41 PM

Awesome, looks like a good start!

imhoff2 · 10-18-2017, 04:43 PM

Awesome stuff here!!

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Mr. Marlin · 10-18-2017, 04:45 PM

I really like this concept. I've always been a fan of the round logo templates. I have a few multi-layer round templates formatted for Photo Impact Pro if you want them.

ksm3939 · 10-18-2017, 10:15 PM

Thanks guys, gonna be a while to the next one probably but if anyone wants to reccomend the next one i should do, let me know

kjb023 · 10-19-2017, 10:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ksm3939

Thanks guys, gonna be a while to the next one probably but if anyone wants to reccomend the next one i should do, let me know

I'd say just go division by division.

ksm3939 · 01-14-2018, 03:40 AM

Sorry for the long break, had some other projects going on. I hope those of you that were once interested still are. The Charlotte Emeralds logo is pretty barebones with a 'C' that is supposed to be in the shape of a gem, color scheme is pretty straightforward. I am open to any suggestions on this one, but I'm pretty happy with the simplicity. I am fairly certain that all of the logos will be circular ones like these. I wanted to do this team because I wanted to play a regular MLB game with expansion teams before finishing this whole project. If anyone would like a larger resolution, let me know, but these are the files I use for the game.

thorpegiovanni · 01-15-2018, 04:26 PM

Very nice. You going to be making uniforms along w/ these?

10-13-2017, 02:10 AM	#1
ksm3939 Bat Boy Join Date: Sep 2017 Posts: 14	American Baseball League I've begun working on a 16 team fictional league spanning America, representing some smaller market cities that generally dont have sports. I'm making all of the logos from scratch, and I've finished the league logo and one of the teams' logo sets (if anyone would like to see).Anyways, I need some help coming up with a final nickname/seeing if anyone has any better ideas for the nicknames. I'm sure that there is lots of "writer's block" for this kind of stuff on here but I figured maybe someone has an idea. East North Cleveland Lakers Hartford Nutmegs Richmond Generals Syracuse Corinthians South St. Pete Sunshine New Orleans Mystics Charlotte Emeralds Memphis Rivermen West Midwest Minneapolis Futures Madison Trappers Austin Bats Oklahoma City Cyclones Pacific Portland Pacifics Sacramento Argonauts New Mexico (UFOs, ETs, Visitors, Atoms, Atomics?) Salt Lake City Alpines Teams I'm not in love with: Hartford Nutmegs seems like a minor league team name but I like the city/state but I just couldn't come up with anything remarkably baseball New Orleans Mystics might be hard to illustrate, plus mystics is a WNBA team, but I like the voodoo theme... obviously 'Magic' and 'Wizards' has been done before Memphis is just kind of boring to me, might change the city but Its gotta be somehwere in the south east New Mexico: can't come up with anything outside of Roswell, White Sands testing, or the Zia sun symbol, maybe a different state would be better for this franchise SLC might be better called "Utah"... I like the Colorado Rockies type theme and there aren't many real cities in the mountain range so SLC is kind of my only other choice Any help or input is appreciate, thanks!

10-15-2017, 02:24 PM	#9
DreamTeams Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 2,521	Here are some ideas... Hartford Colonials Hartford Constitutions Hartford Atlantics New Orleans Mystics (favorite) New Orleans Dukes New Orleans Crescents New Mexico Pueblos New Mexico Volcanos Salt Lake City or Utah Pioneers Salt Lake City or Utah Barons __________________

10-18-2017, 02:46 PM	#12
ksm3939 Bat Boy Join Date: Sep 2017 Posts: 14	Abl The American Baseball League, or ABL is a league comprised of 16 teams split into 2 subleagues and 4 divisions. The general theme behind the league is that the cities that the teams hail from are small to mid markets. I will likely expand the league to 18 or 20 teams within the first few years once I finally have all of the logos made and everything up and running. Currently, every team has only 1 minor league team as I wanted the league to feel "small." As of now I am unsure whether or not I will be making all custom logos for the minor league affiliates. The current league structure is as follows: East North Cleveland Lakers Hartford Nutmegs Richmond Generals Syracuse Corinthians South St. Pete Sunshine New Orleans Mystics Charlotte Emeralds Memphis Rivermen West Midwest Minneapolis Futures Madison Trappers Austin Bats Oklahoma City Cyclones Pacific Portland Pacifics Sacramento Argonauts New Mexico Atomics Salt Lake City Alpines Possible locations for expansion include Seattle, Newfoundland, Colorado, Georgia, PA, and Illinois Thanks for the input everyone, here is the ABL small and large logos, made with affinity designer like everything else... feel free to use any of the stuff in this thread, just be sure to credit me if you're going to post with it! Attached Images

10-18-2017, 02:56 PM	#13
ksm3939 Bat Boy Join Date: Sep 2017 Posts: 14	Minneapolis Futures This logo was started initially as a team i was going to call the Seattle Aces, I made the entire background of the design based off the Mariners' circle logo and originally there was going to be a plane sort of coming out from the center with a little stream behind it, but the stream looked like the rings on a planet when i was messing around with it. So I changed the whole color scheme to look like Saturn and ended up with an Astros type vibe. I came up with the nickname pretty quickly and remembered that Minneapolis is a relatively young, clean city so I went with it for the city. I was making this logo before I came up with the idea for the league and I liked the logo so much that I ended up planning this whole thing. I messed around with a sort of 50s futurism idea for the font but settled for this. The M definitely looks like the marlins but I'm aware of it so it's alright. I'm pretty proud of this one and they will have a minor league team based in St. Cloud. Here is the logo, small logo, and potential cap logo for the Futures. Attached Images

01-14-2018, 03:40 AM	#19
ksm3939 Bat Boy Join Date: Sep 2017 Posts: 14	Charlotte Emeralds Sorry for the long break, had some other projects going on. I hope those of you that were once interested still are. The Charlotte Emeralds logo is pretty barebones with a 'C' that is supposed to be in the shape of a gem, color scheme is pretty straightforward. I am open to any suggestions on this one, but I'm pretty happy with the simplicity. I am fairly certain that all of the logos will be circular ones like these. I wanted to do this team because I wanted to play a regular MLB game with expansion teams before finishing this whole project. If anyone would like a larger resolution, let me know, but these are the files I use for the game. Attached Images

10-13-2017, 04:54 AM	#2
kjb023 Major Leagues Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 389	Anxious to see these!

10-13-2017, 08:20 PM	#4
Bottom Of The Sixth All Star Starter Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Land of Lincoln Posts: 1,239	Cleveland Commodores Cleveland Cubs Cleveland Rams Cleveland Browns Hartford Whalers Richmond Grays Richmond Rebels New Orleans Pelicans New Orleans Crescents Memphis Red Sox Minneapolis Muskies Madison Maple Leafs Oklahoma City Indians Portland Beavers Albuquerque Roadrunners SantaFe Thunderbirds SantaFe Super Chiefs Salt Lake City Bees If you are interested in seeing what minor league teams actually existed in real life, check out this very helpful link. https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/team.cgi

10-13-2017, 08:29 PM	#5
smythejd All Star Reserve Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 983	How about the Cleveland Rockers

10-14-2017, 06:19 AM	#6
Elektranaut Major Leagues Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 361	Cleveland crusaders

10-14-2017, 12:16 PM	#7
ksm3939 Bat Boy Join Date: Sep 2017 Posts: 14	All good ideas, unfortunately you guys are giving a lot of suggestions for the teams that I've pretty much made up my mind for lol

10-15-2017, 02:25 AM	#8
kjb023 Major Leagues Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 389	Just to throw my two cents in, I actually love the Hartford Nutmegs. I think when your league is this big you can afford a few "weird" team names. As for the other teams you mentioned not being sure of: New Orleans Mystics - I like it. But if you wanna keep the "voodoo" theme, I guess you could just go with Voodoo. Memphis - If you wanna get rid of Memphis that would leave that particular division as New Orleans, St. Pete, and Charlotte. Those are pretty spread out, so I'd say something like Atlanta or Birmingham that would be sort of in the middle. Or if you wanna go smaller Pensacola, or somewhere in South Carolina. Charleston? Myrtle Beach? New Mexico - I like the Atomics. It might be a little similar to the Albuquerque Isotopes if you're worried about real-life similarities. Maybe something like Coyotes or Roadrunners? SLC - I think Salt Lake City Alpines has a mcuh better ring to it then Utah Alpines.

10-17-2017, 07:57 PM	#10
kjb023 Major Leagues Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 389	So this is dead, I guess?

10-18-2017, 02:37 AM	#11
ksm3939 Bat Boy Join Date: Sep 2017 Posts: 14	Nah I'm still working on stuff, I've finalized the cities and nicknames but I'll try to put out the first team logo set and the league logo tomorrow

10-18-2017, 03:41 PM	#14
kjb023 Major Leagues Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 389	Awesome, looks like a good start!

10-18-2017, 04:43 PM	#15
imhoff2 Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Sep 2015 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 42	Awesome stuff here!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

10-18-2017, 04:45 PM	#16
Mr. Marlin All Star Starter Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 1,245	I really like this concept. I've always been a fan of the round logo templates. I have a few multi-layer round templates formatted for Photo Impact Pro if you want them.

10-18-2017, 10:15 PM	#17
ksm3939 Bat Boy Join Date: Sep 2017 Posts: 14	Thanks guys, gonna be a while to the next one probably but if anyone wants to reccomend the next one i should do, let me know

01-15-2018, 04:26 PM	#20
thorpegiovanni All Star Reserve Join Date: Jul 2016 Posts: 550	Very nice. You going to be making uniforms along w/ these? __________________