For the first time in 60 years, there will be a professional baseball team playing with the city of Waco’s name on their jerseys.
This new independent league team will be called the Waco BlueCats and will be located in Bellmead. This team will be a part of the Southwest League of Professional Baseball, which will debut in the spring of 2018.
The city put up a community vote on what the name of the minor league ball club would be named. Out of the 1,800 submissions that were sent in, the BlueCats came out the winners.