http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2015/09/how_brandiose_transformed_minor_league_baseball_from_the_hartford_yard_goats.html

When Connecticut’s most prominent Minor League Baseball franchise moves into a 9,000-seat ballpark in the state capital next year, it will be renamed for an animal that people still believe eats tin cans. At a confetti-soaked press conference held at a local YMCA in March, the New Britain Rock Cats announced that they were about to become the Hartford Yard Goats. Two of the hooved creatures were trotted out onto the stage after the reveal, but the Hartford Courant reported that “they nervously strayed to the side.”