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The Hall of Mascots

From the obsessive info-graphers at GOOD mag, the Hall assigns the mascots of the big-four pro leagues to branches on the animal kingdom tree, revealing weirdly fascinating insights like that eight teams are repped by mammals (The Pats' Pat Patriot, the Padres' Swinging Friar, etc), four by fish & dinos (Florida Marlins' Billy, Colorado Rockies' Dinger the Triceratops...), and only one by a mollusk, the Detroit Red Wings' Al the Octopus -- ostensibly because a fish market owner once threw an octopus on the ice for good luck, and it worked, for the hockey team...

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