From Alley Cats – Today The West Virginia Power
As the Charleston Alley Cats, West Virginia’s premier minor league baseball club was the Class A affiliate for the Cincinnati Reds, the Kansas City Royals and finally the Milwaukee Brewers. Throughout all of the team’s affiliations, the same grey, red and black Alley Cat logo soldiered on for nine years.
However, in 2005, the team announced that it would be changing it’s name to the much more locally inclined and authoritative West Virginia Power.
West Virginia has long been on of the country’s leading sources of energy. With the state being a major supplier of coal production, natural gas and hydro-electric sources and the city of Charleston serving as the defining political and economic powers in West Virginia, a decision was made to change the name of the team to something that reflected the region in a more appropriate manner and provided a wider variety of successful marketing opportunities.Never heard of this before? Get up to speed here.
With it’s striking black and yellow team logo featuring a fast-moving baseball in the midst of an electrical power surge, the new aesthetic changes to the team’s look and the blunt force of their new name were bound to strike fear into the hearts of opposing players that enter Appalachian Power Park.