From Dairy Daddies to Trash Pandas: How branding creates fans for lower-league baseball teams
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From Dairy Daddies to Trash Pandas: How branding creates fans for lower-league baseball teams
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Why would a person emotionally commit themselves—for generations—to a brand associated with futility? Of course part of the answer is emotional attachment but another part is that each spring, the season starts over and every team is on equal footing, at…
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