Thinking about the children. It's all about the children:

The Class A Lowell Spinners of the New York-Penn League say that if youth baseball leagues across New England change the name of a team from the Yankees to the Spinners, Lowell would pay for new uniforms. In a message on the Spinners' Web site, general manager Tim Bawmann said many children in New England are devastated when they are assigned to be on a team called the Yankees.

Update: best search string reaching this blog this month so far: "cheater baseball".