Texas has long been spoiled by its abundance of fantastic mascots in semipro, independent, and minor league baseball. We’re the home of Henry the Puffy Taco and his nemesis/colleague Ballapeño. The state where, when COVID-19 eliminated the 2020 minor league season, a city took it upon itself to form new teams called the Lightning Sloths and Eastern Reyes del Tigre in order to play a mini, bubble-enforced season inside a socially distanced stadium. Texas is where a city learned to open its heart to the humble Chihuahua, and a ball club unveiled the greatest uniform the sport has seen in the nearly two-hundred-year history of America’s pastime. For the past decade, the constellation of stars in the brilliant night sky that is Texas’s lower-level ball clubs…The post A Requiem for Swatson and Moe, the Mosquito Mascot Kings of Texas Minor League Baseball appeared first on Texas Monthly.