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MiLB team to adopt alternate identity following 'Last Week Tonight' contest

Associated Press

created: June 30, 2025, 6:50 p.m. | updated: July 1, 2025, 3:28 a.m.

Open Extended ReactionsNEW YORK -- The Detroit Tigers' Double-A Erie SeaWolves will be renamed the Erie Moon Mammoths after being picked by John Oliver of HBO's "Last Week Tonight." Oliver devoted a May 4 segment to names and promotions of minor league baseball teams, announcing: "We are willing to use all of our resources and stupidity to give one Minor League Baseball team a total rebrand. Oliver announced Sunday that he had chosen to call the team the Moon Mammoths. Erie, which has won the past two Eastern League championships, will be renamed the Moon Mammoths for games on July 19, Aug. 19, Sept. 12 and Sept. 13. The first 1,000 ticketed fans will receive a Moon Mammoths squishy toy and there will be postgame fireworks.

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