Los Santos Corkers Baseball Club

Type	BASEBALL TEAM
Los Santos Corkers Baseball Club
Appears in	Grand Theft Auto V Grand Theft Auto Online
Location(s)	Los Santos, San Andreas
Team Information
Team type	Professional
League	Western States Baseball League
Team members	Carl Wilkins - #? Duane Aller - #33
Known supporters	The Families Franklin Clinton
Team colors	Red, white, blue
Contacts and Social Media
	@LosSantosCorkers

The Los Santos Corkers Baseball Club is a baseball team in Los Santos, featured in Grand Theft Auto V.

Description

The team is a professional baseball team whose colors are favored by The Families gang. Franklin Clinton has a Corkers poster in his old bedroom in his Aunt Denise's house, and can purchase pieces of clothing with the Corkers logo. Additionally, After saving someone from a mugging, the victim might thank the player, saying "I owe you. I can offer Corkers tickets!"

One of the team's stated players, Duane Aller, is stated in a Logger Light commercial to make $28,000,000 a year. Sometime in 2013 according to a Weazel News report, Corkers legend Carl Wilkins was revealed to have frequentely used performance-enhancing drugs before beating up groupies and visiting brothels.

In another Weazel News report, it was stated that private corrections company Incarcerate US was looking to purchase the Corkers, as many of their inmates are baseball fans, though Devin Weston is also stated to have holdings in the team. In a separate report, its stated Corkers lost a game to the Los Santos Boars in extra innings; the game lasted from 4:00 pm to the crack of dawn.

In Grand Theft Auto Online, players can purchase a Corkers Bobblehead figure for their Benny's Original Motor Works-modified vehicles. In the Bottom Dollar Bounties update, Chaz Lieberman is a gambler who lost all of his money betting on the Corker's performance in the baseball playoffs, causing Bottom Dollar Bail Enforcement to target him for skipping bail.

Influence

The team is likely based on the Los Angeles Dodgers based on its color scheme and logo font. The circular logo may take influence from the Oakland Athletics. The name "Corkers" is most likely a reference to the act of corking, an illegal way of modifying a bat. Sammy Sosa and Albert Belle are both notable players who have been caught using a corked bat.

The Weazel News story about the several-hour long game against the Boars may be referencing a real life game between the Los Angeles Angels and the Athletics, which lasted 19 innings and did not end until 1:41 in the morning.

Gallery

A poster in Franklin Clinton's room.

Duane Aller.

GTA 5 - Logger Light - TV Commercial

A Logger Beer commercial featuring the LS Corkers.

Vehicle Sponsors

The "Corkers Baseball Livery" for the Specter Custom in Grand Theft Auto Online.

Trivia

• The Logger Beer commercial featuring the LS Corkers appears to be showing footage of a modified version of MLB 2K13, a game published by Rockstar's sister company, 2K Games.