Traverse City Pit Spitters

The Traverse City Pit Spitters are a baseball team in the Northwoods League (a collegiate summer baseball league) which began play in the 2019 season. Based out of Traverse City, Michigan, the Pit Spitters play their home games at Turtle Creek Stadium in nearby Blair Township.
History.
On September 26, 2018, it was announced that Wuerfel Park had been purchased by a new investment group led by the owners of the West Michigan Whitecaps (Class A Midwest League affiliate of MLB's Detroit Tigers), with the park's previous tenant, the Traverse City Beach Bums (independent Frontier League) ceasing operations and the ownership group launching a new franchise in the Northwoods League for the 2019 season.
On October 25, the team named Josh Rebandt as their first field manager.
A name-the-team contest was held until December 14, with five finalists: Black Pearls, Dogmen, Dune Bears, Pit Spitters, Tree Shakers and Sasquatch.
On January 29, the Pit Spitters name and logos were officially announced.
2019 season (inaugural season & league championship).
May 28, 2019, served as the opening day for the Pit Spitters as they defeated the Green Bay Booyah 2-1 before 2,274 fans.  The Pit Spitters eventually went to the playoffs against the Kalamazoo Growlers (2-0) and the Madison Mallards (3-2). The Spitters then went on to beat the Eau Claire Express in the 2019 championship game (3-2).
2020 pod season.
On June 25, 2020, following decreasing regulations for the COVID-19 pandemic, the Northwoods League approved the creation of two temporary teams to play during the 2020 season: the Northern Michigan Dune Bears and the Great Lakes Resorters. The three teams would be the only ones to play at Turtle Creek Stadium for the season until the playoffs in September. On July 5 of the same year, the season was put on pause due a number of players testing positive for the virus. Play was supposed to resume on July 10, but was pushed further back to July 19. Play resumed that day, but the Dune Bears team had been temporarily dissolved (with the possibility of returning later in the season), leaving the rest of the 2020 season to be played between the Pit Spitters and Resorters.
Mascot.
The mascot of the Traverse City Pit Spitters is Monty, a "blue furry creature" said to have grown up on a Montmorency cherry orchard near Traverse City.