After months of teasing and municipal anticipation, Wichita’s new baseball team has its name, the Wichita Wind Surge.
“It’s a perfect name, I think it’s very fitting,” said Mayor Jeff Longwell, who led the effort to bring the team to Wichita.
The team, who finished their last season in New Orleans as the Baby Cakes earlier this year, will be the anchor tenant of the new $75 million baseball park that the city is building on the site of the former Lawrence-Dumont Stadium at Maple and McLean.
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