People always ask me what it’s like to be a baseball mascot. “Is it hot in the suit?” is one of the most common questions. When the suit’s on people want to know if I’m a guy or a girl, how sweaty I am, all sorts of things.
During a match I go by Sasha Squirrel, the key mascot for local baseball team the Maple Swingers. I came up with most of the costume myself! Sasha’s costume is mostly in the mask instead of the full suits you see some others wearing. I’m fit, but definitely on the curvy side especially in the bust, and I wanted to be comfortable in the warmer weather. So instead of a full “animal suit” I’m more of a Lola Rabbit type of animal mascot, wearing a cute red and white baseball-uniform, with a bushy tail, fluffy paws, and cartoon squirrel mask.
But the question that I hands-down get asked the most is “What do even do as a mascot?”. It’s a job people know of but don’t know a lot about. So I thought I’d share a diary from what I got up to last week as the Maple Swinger’s Sasha Squirrel.