Dear Liza,
Our local Minor League Baseball team is called the Hillsboro Hops. And last week, they were also “The Malmö Oatmilkers!” Here’s how it worked.
Major League Baseball teams have minor league ‘farm teams’, where their newest players get trained up to professional level. These teams are located all over the country. Our local Hillsboro Hops are a farm team for the Arizona Diamondbacks.
And the newest, 121st Minor League team, is …. The Malmö Oatmilkers, from Malmö, Sweden! Yes, that’s right. Sweden. I haven’t been able to learn if there are actual players on the team or if it is just a really interesting marketing idea of the Oatly Oatmilk Company.
With you and your family living in Denmark (just next door, in a manner of speaking), we had to go see. This week, they were playing the Vancouver Canadians.
Well, there wasn’t as much to see as we had hoped, but it was fun, anyway. The Oatmilkers were our own Hops players, wearing the Oatmilkers’ uniforms. As fitting to oatmilk, the uniforms are a creamy white with dark brown lettering. The uniforms had numbers on the back but instead of the player’s name, it said “Baseball Player”. It was goofy and kind of sweet.
Of course, what Auntie Bridgett was after was some merchandise. A Tee shirt, maybe, or a coffee cup. But no such luck. Nothing.
But, as I said, you have to work hard NOT to have fun at a Hops game. Along with baseball, there are snacks, kids, costumes, tire races, trivia games, and this week, the first-ever drone show over Ron Tonkin Field.
So we didn’t come home with goodies, but a good time was had by all.
Love,
Grandma Judy
Dear Liza 