Ottawa Fat Cats
| Ottawa Fat Cats | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|||||
| League | Intercounty Baseball League (2010-2012) | ||||
| Location | Ottawa, Ontario | ||||
| Ballpark | Ottawa Baseball Stadium | ||||
| Year founded | 2010 | ||||
| League championships | 2 | ||||
| Division championships | 2 | ||||
| Colours | Red, black and white | ||||
| Ownership | Ottawa Stadium Group | ||||
| Manager | Tim Nelson | ||||
| General Manager | Jonathan Trottier (Interim) | ||||
| Media | Ottawa Citizen / Ottawa Sun / Rogers TV | ||||
| Website | www |
||||
The Ottawa Fat Cats were a semi-professional baseball club in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The team began play on May 8, 2010, against the Guelph Royals, and played its home games at the Ottawa Baseball Stadium, the first home game was on May 15, 2010, against the Mississauga Twins. The team was a member of the Intercounty Baseball League but suspended operations at the end of the 2012 season. They were eventually replaced as the primary tenant of what is now RCGT Park by the Ottawa Champions of the Can-Am League.
The Ottawa Stadium Group first became involved in operating a baseball team in 2009. With the Ottawa Baseball Stadium vacant, a city asset was unused. City Councillor Bob Monette arranged some community baseball games, and around the same time the OSG showed some interest in starting another Can-Am baseball team at the stadium. In January 2010, the group instead applied to the Intercounty Baseball League and was accepted. As the other eight IBL teams are located in or within a short distance of Toronto, the Fat Cats had to accept conditions whereby the Cats would pay for accommodations for the visiting teams and also arrange the schedule to allow the other teams to play back-to-back games in Ottawa. In March 2010, the group named Duncan MacDonald as the general manager, while Bill Mackenzie, a former professional baseball player, was hired as manager of the team.
The name and logo of the team were announced at a news conference on March 24, 2010. The name 'Fat Cats' was chosen to poke fun at the public image of federal public servants employed in the city. The Cats used the traditional red, black and white used by Ottawa teams. The cap logo is a stylized 'O' (similar to the alternate logo used by the city's NHL team, the Ottawa Senators), with horizontal black, red and white stripes through the 'O'. A vertical slit in the middle of the 'O' made it look like a cat's eye. The jersey logo was a cartoon cat with the team name written below it. The Cats also arranged concerts at the Stadium in addition to the ball games. The concerts' premise was to raise funds to offset any losses in the operations of the baseball team.
...
Wikipedia