Two petitions with more than 1,000 signatures each are calling for the owner of the new minor league baseball franchise in Columbus to reconsider the team’s name.
New York-based Diamond Baseball Holdings, which owns and operates 34 minor league baseball team, including all the Atlanta Braves affiliates, announced Friday that the Braves Double-A franchise moving from Mississippi to Columbus has been changed from the Braves to the Clingstones.
Diamond Baseball explained in a news release that the clingstone peach is “one of the most popular varieties of peaches, named for its flesh that stubbornly clings to the pit, signifying the grit and determination the team will display on the field as well as an unyielding commitment to the community.