When a professional baseball team plays its home games in Columbus for the first time in 17 years, starting in April, the drought will be quenched by a club wearing uniforms emblazoned with the 16th different name representing the city since 1885.
The Atlanta Braves’ Double-A baseball affiliate moving from Mississippi to the Chattahoochee Valley will be called the Columbus Clingstones.
New York-based Diamond Baseball Holdings, which owns and operates 34 minor-league baseball teams, including all the Braves’ affiliates, made the announcement Friday night during the Uptown Columbus concert at the Columbus Convention and Trade Center.