Minor league baseball team reverses Gold Diggers name change after outrage

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The Athletics were acold from the lone shot squad successful Sacramento, California, receiving disapproval astatine the commencement of the season.

The insignificant league enactment successful municipality generated immoderate vigor past week.

The Sacramento River Cats were acceptable to partake successful a caller insignificant league shot contented – changing their squad for a play of clip to beforehand their alternate identity. For example, the Somerset Patriots played arsenic the Jersey Diners, and the Lehigh Valley IronPigs are acceptable to vie arsenic the Lehigh Valley Tomato Pie, conscionable to sanction a few.

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The sanction alteration caused rather the controversy. (Getty Images)

The River Cats were acceptable to play arsenic the Sacramento Gold Diggers, seemingly a throwback to the California Gold Rush. The metropolis of Sacramento was a haven for golden miners successful the precocious 1840s and was turned into a thriving assemblage and incorporated into California successful 1850.

"Inspired by the determination past of the California Gold Rush, this caller individuality offers a transportation to the important interaction of this epoch erstwhile Sacramento grew arsenic the closest large metropolis to the golden fields," the squad said successful a quality merchandise Thursday, via The Sacramento Bee.

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The squad released a video showcasing the squad sanction but besides leaned into an aged trope arsenic it showed 2 women with dollar signs connected their eyes erstwhile they saw a player.

The video, which has since been deleted from the team’s societal media pages, caused immoderate outrage and the enactment reversed their determination connected the name.

Sacramento Bee columnist Robin Epley ripped the rebranding arsenic a "misogynistic gag connected women."

More radical reacted connected X.

"Our caller selling run for an alternate individuality intelligibly missed the mark," the squad said successful a statement. "Our volition was to creatively notation the affluent past of Sacramento and golden country, but our attack was wrong, and we are atrocious for the mistake. We volition nary longer beryllium utilizing this identity."