Winston-Salem Pond Giants

I wanted to do a design for a North Carolina Black Baseball team and I found the Winston-Salem Pond Giants from the early 1900s. Since they didn't have too many articles about them or reference photos, it gave me the opportunity to play around with different ideas. The key aspects I wanted to emphasize were a vintage-looking mascot, players being laborers instead of salaried players, and using an animal that you would possibly find in flooded water.