something from outer space and the kids were afraid of him. During a game in late fall, a father attacked Souki after his child was afraid of him (and after a loss). Spacey the Needle Spacey was the winner of the 1979 mascot competition held by the Seattle Mariners and became the team mascot for a few games. The Mariners replaced him with the Mariner Moose in 1990. The Baseball Bug The Baseball Bug was the former mascot of the Cleveland Guardians from 1980 to 1981. He was a large red creature with a long nose and a baseball cap with eyes and antennas sticking out. He was retired after the 1981 season. Trunk Trunk was the former mascot of the Oakland Athletics from 1993 to 1996. he was an elephant similar to Stomper, but was skinnier and wore black sunglasses similar to the alternate logo used from 1994 to 2002. He was replaced by Stomper later on in the 1997 season. Twinkie the Loon Twinkie was used by the Minnesota Twins for two seasons 1980 and 1981. T.C. replaced him in 2000. Waldo the White Sox Wolf Waldo the White Sox Wolf was a short-lived mascot of the Chicago White Sox in the 1990's. Youppi! Youppi! was the mascot of the Montreal Expos, before the franchise moved to Washington as the Washington Nationals. He is an orange furry creature with a white face originally leased in 1979 and designed by Bonnie Erickson, formerly a designer for some of Jim Henson's Muppets characters. Youppi! was so named resembling the phrase Yippee! or Hooray! in French. Youppi! was the first mascot to be thrown out of a Major League Baseball game: on August 23, 1989, in the 11th inning, while atop the visitors' dugout, Youppi! took a running leap, landing hard and noisily on its roof, and then sneaked into a front row seat. Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda complained to the umpires and Youppi! was ejected, though he later returned, confined to the home team's dugout roof. Youppi! was abandoned as a mascot after the Expos franchise moved to Washington in 2005, but was adopted by the NHL's Montreal Canadiens team on September 16, 2005, as potentially the first sports mascot to switch their allegiance from one sport to another, while remaining in the same city. Youppi! was voted to the Mascot Hall of Fame in December 2019, and