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Rockies rookies get glow-in-the-dark hats

10/31/2007 04:13 PM
John Ames

Dan Cepeda, Jackson Hole Star-Tribune
Casper Director of Fun (and Corporate Sales) Matthew Warneke unveils the Ghosts’ logos.

Colorado’s Rookie League team in Casper, Wyo. is changing it’s name.

From now on, the Rockies will be the Ghosts.

Get it?

My question: What took so long? Assumed answer: Being “friendly” just isn’t cool. The Ghosts’ solution: Put a fierce ghostly baseball on their caps. Added incentive for hat collectors to seek out the ghost lids: They glow in the dark.

And that’s a good thing. When those rookies and their fans go trick-or-treating tonight, they’ll be easy to spot with their glowing caps bobbing down those dark Wyoming roads.

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