Joliet's minor league baseball team gets new name

By ABC7
January 13, 2011 (JOLIET, Ill.)

The new owners named the team the Joliet Slammers. They hope to capitalize on Joliet's reputation as a prison town.

The new owners apparently rejected the name Jailbirds before settling on the Slammers.

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