Erie SeaWolves debut new mascot: Meet the Moon Mammoths

In the summer of 1991, a scuba diver named George Moon was combing the depths of Lake Pleasant in Erie County, Pa. When he broke the surface, he was carrying with him an almost three-foot long bone. Moon had no idea then that what he’d stumbled across was the shoulder blade of a creature that had walked the land in Erie something like 12 millennia ago. He also had no idea that this prehistoric discovery would one day somehow become a part of baseball history.

It became known locally in Erie as the Moon Mammoth and now, more than three decades later, thanks to “Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver and his team of writers, this story is getting dug up again as a brand new alternate identity for the Erie SeaWolves, Double-A affiliate of the Tigers.

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