| 1 | 1 | | *HR1553* |
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| 2 | 2 | | Introduced Version |
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| 3 | 3 | | HOUSE |
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| 4 | 4 | | RESOLUTION No. ___ |
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| 5 | 5 | | Introduced by: GiaQuinta, Miller K, Smaltz, Carbaugh, |
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| 6 | 6 | | Judy, Morris, Lehman, Abbott, Zent, Heine |
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| 7 | 7 | | ____________________________________ |
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| 8 | 8 | | 1 A HOUSE RESOLUTION honoring the Fort Wayne |
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| 9 | 9 | | 2 TinCaps on their 15th anniversary. |
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| 10 | 10 | | 3 Whereas, On October 2, 2008, the Fort Wayne TinCaps |
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| 11 | 11 | | 4 changed their name from the Fort Wayne Wizards; |
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| 12 | 12 | | 5 Whereas, The Fort Wayne TinCaps are a minor league |
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| 13 | 13 | | 6 baseball team of the Midwest League and the High-A affiliate |
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| 14 | 14 | | 7 of the San Diego Padres; |
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| 15 | 15 | | 8 Whereas, The TinCaps name is a reference to John |
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| 16 | 16 | | 9 Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, famous for the |
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| 17 | 17 | | 10 tin cooking pot he wore as a hat. Chapman spent his final years |
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| 18 | 18 | | 11 in Fort Wayne and is buried there; |
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| 19 | 19 | | 12 Whereas, The organization received a lot of negative |
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| 20 | 20 | | 20242326 |
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| 21 | 21 | | HR 1553/DI 140 2024 2 |
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| 22 | 22 | | 1 feedback after changing their name, but the fans of the team |
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| 23 | 23 | | 2 have come to love the new name; |
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| 24 | 24 | | 3 Whereas, By the end of the first season, the TinCaps had the |
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| 25 | 25 | | 4 top selling logo in Minor League Baseball and the team store |
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| 26 | 26 | | 5 is much more popular now than when the team was known as |
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| 27 | 27 | | 6 the Wizards; |
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| 28 | 28 | | 7 Whereas, Parkview Field became the new home of the |
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| 29 | 29 | | 8 TinCaps in 2009; |
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| 30 | 30 | | 9 Whereas, The TinCaps won the 2009 Midwest League |
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| 31 | 31 | | 10 championship, and they have clinched playoff spots in every |
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| 32 | 32 | | 11 season since 2009 with the exception of 2016; and |
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| 33 | 33 | | 12 Whereas, The Fort Wayne TinCaps have strong support from |
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| 34 | 34 | | 13 the Fort Wayne community: Therefore, |
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| 35 | 35 | | 14 Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the |
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| 36 | 36 | | 15 General Assembly of the State of Indiana: |
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| 37 | 37 | | 16 SECTION 1. That the Indiana House of Representatives |
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| 38 | 38 | | 17 honors the Fort Wayne TinCaps on the 15th anniversary of their |
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| 39 | 39 | | 18 name change. |
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| 40 | 40 | | 19 SECTION 2. That the Principal Clerk of the House of |
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| 41 | 41 | | 20 Representatives shall transmit copies of this resolution to State |
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| 42 | 42 | | 21 Representative Phil GiaQuinta for distribution. |
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| 43 | 43 | | 20242326 |
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| 44 | 44 | | HR 1553/DI 140 2024 |
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