It’s a mad, mad, mad mascot world

According to an article by Steve Dilbeck in Wednesday’s Los Angeles Times (“Big Face in the Crowd”), the Los Angeles Dodgers have a new personality on the team -- a crisply uniformed, big-headed not-mascot they’ve dubbed a “performance character.” You can read Dilbeck’s entire is-he or isn’t-he (a mascot) piece here, but it got us thinking about some of the strange, silly and controversial college and professional sports mascots we’ve read about over the years. Put that huge ball cap on your head, break out your pencil and take a deep whiff of team spirit and see if you’re a major leaguer in the mascot department -- or if you’re destined to flounder on the farm team -- with a quick sports mascot quiz.

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