Major League Baseball has just begun, and this week, selected teams, such as the Chicago Cubs, will have their opening days in the US. The sport has always been a popular theme with The Simpsons ...

Then came the team's mascot, the alien Orbit, whose unique popularity is now known nationally, is having a unique "birthday" ...

Dodgers fans seeing Manny Ramirez in an Albuquerque uniform and wondering “Isotope?” need to watch more episodes of “The Simpsons.” The Springfield Isotopes are the baseball team in the ...

This one's not a surprise to fans of The Simpsons. When the Calgary Cannons moved to Albuquerque for the 2003 season, "Isotopes" won a name-the-team contest with 67% of the vote.

More about the Albuquerque Isotopes, Triple-A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies & 'The Simpsons' connection While there was no Homer Simpson on a hunger strike to try and prevent the move, there ...

Sporting News has put together a list of bizarre Minor League baseball team names.The Isotopes have made it to Round 2, and you can vote for the 'Topes right HERE.Sporting News cites the team's ...

Two long-running American institutions, MLB and The Simpsons, have teamed up for a new World Series hype video showcasing the best of the nation’s pastime.

Mar. 31—What's in a name? In minor league baseball, does it even matter? For 21 seasons now, Albuquerque's beloved Triple-A baseball franchise has been the Isotopes, a moniker that has grown ...

A 2001 episode featured a baseball team called the Albuquerque Isotopes. A real-life Minor League Baseball team was launched two years later, named after the "Simpsons" episode. Today it's the AAA ...

Apparently not everyone in Springfield roots for the Isotopes. "The Simpsons" voice actor Hank Azaria used some of his most memorable characters from the hit animated sitcom to announce the ...

Welcome to Sliders, a weekly in-season MLB column that focuses on both the timely and timeless elements of baseball. Nothing celebrates life’s absurdities quite like “The Simpsons,” the ...