Posted 1:51 PM by Floyd

Get Your Hits on Route 66

California has some great weird sports team names. Until recently this was at the college level; I live over the hill from the UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs, and down south we have the UC Irvine Anteaters. But now there is a bizarre pro sports team name: The Inland Empire 66ers.

I was scanning the San Jose Mercury News web page and saw the headline "S.J. Giants, 66ers split". I knew that the Giants referred to were the San Jose Giants, an A minor league ball club, but who were the "Inland Empire" 66ers described in the article? A quick Google search revealed that the 66ers are from San Bernardino, they were called the Stampede until last fall, and that they are a Mariners farm club. 66ers commemorates historic Route 66, which runs through San Bernardino.