Closed in 2024, the Mississippi Braves club started playing in 1984 as the Greenville Braves. In 2005, they relocated to Pearl, Mississippi (a suburb of Jackson) and adopted their current name and logo. Until their relocation to Georgia, the Braves have been competing in the Southern League and the Double-A affiliates of the Atlanta Braves club.
Officially established in 2005, the Mississippi Braves team won its first League Title already in three years, in 2008, and since then has reached the championship playoff two more times, with another win in 2021. In the same 2021, the club was bought by Diamond Baseball Holdings, and this acquisition started a new chapter in the franchise’s history.
The Braves kept playing in Mississippi for two more seasons, however, in 2024 the management of the club decided to relocate it to Columbus, Georgia, with the name being changed to Columbus Clingstones.
The logo of the Mississippi Braves was heavily based on that of their parent club, the Atlanta Braves. And yet, the emblem of a minor league team possessed a unique identity.
The Mississippi Braves logo uses the same visual core as the emblem of the Atlanta Braves. Similar to the parent team’s emblem, there’s a red tomahawk with gold and dark blue elements and a scripted word “Braves” above. In case of minor league team, the design is placed over the outline of the state of Mississippi. We can also see a star pointing at the club’s hometown on the map and a white baseball.
The same red tomahawk appears on the cap logos. Here, it can be seen together with a large letter “M” in white. There’s also a wordmark insignia, where only the tomahawk and the scripted “Braves” are used.
While borrowing navy blue, scarlet red, gold, and white from the parent team’s emblem, the Mississippi Braves logo also adds black and several lighter shades of blue.