Missions baseball team to become ‘Flying Chanclas de San Antonio’ during upcoming season

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To celebrate the Alamo City’s Hispanic community, the Missions Minor League Baseball team will become the Flying Chanclas de San Antonio for nine games during the 2018 season, the league announced Tuesday.

On its website, the league also announced the launch of “Copa de la Diversion,” or “Fun Cup,” which the league describes as “a season-long event series specifically designed to embrace the culture and values that resonate most with participating teams' local U.S. Hispanic/Latino communities.”

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The Flying Chanclas will debut on Saturday, May 5 during a game against the Corpus Chrsiti Hooks, who are becoming the Corpus Christi Raspas, at Wolff Stadium in San Antonio. The Copa series will continue during every Thursday home game for the rest of the season, according to MILB.com.

On Tuesday, the Missions shared the news on their Twitter and Facebook accounts, changing their profile images.

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The team said their inspiration behind the name came from "the matriarch of the Latino family, the Abuelita, and her symbol of strength, discipline and love with its on-field persona for this special series of events. The chancla has long been symbolic of the Abuelita as she maintains the structure and order of la familia."