Spring Training’s going to look a whole lot better in 2016. Today Major League Baseball, Majestic, and New Era announced a new unified on-field look for the annual slate of exhibition games held every March. The new look includes ball caps, lighter-weight uniforms featuring regular season designs, specially marked baseballs, and other on-field
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Not Amazin Enough: NY Mets 2015 World Series Phantom Champs Merch
The New York Mets are not the 2015 World Series Champions. Despite it ending with a Kansas City victory in only 5 games, they put up one heckuva fight… really, a couple of hops here and there, a couple of routine throws and bam, world champs. But that’s what the Royals do,
New York Mets Logo and Uniform History
Following up on our logo and uniform history post for the Kansas City Royals… here’s their opponents in the 2015 World Series, the NL Champion New York Mets. Enjoy: 1962: Four years after both the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants move to the west coast, National League Baseball returns
2015 ALCS, NLCS Program Covers Unveiled
The first 2015 League Championship Series gets underway tonight as the Toronto Blue Jays take on the defending AL champion Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium, just in time for game one we’ve got our first look at the cover designs for the commemorative programs which will be sold throughout the
Mets’ CitiField Getting Dressed up for Playoff Debut
The New York Mets are back in the Postseason in 2015 and will finally get to host a game of their National League Division Series with the Los Angeles Dodgers tonight. It will be the first playoff game ever to be played at CitiField. Thanks to a series of Tweets from
From one bug to another: Sand Gnats to become Fireflies
When the New York Mets’ South Atlantic League Single-A affiliate moves from Savannah, Georgia, to Columbia, South Carolina, next season, they will drop one bug—the tiny, horrible, razor-fanged Sand Gnat—in favor of one that evokes images of pleasant summer evenings, the firefly. The Columbia Fireflies’ logo, unveiled this morning, was
This Team Bites: The Story Behind the Savannah Sand Gnats
A lot of sports teams choose to represent themselves with fierce, intimidating creatures: Tigers, Diamondbacks, Sharks, Chihuahuas, etc. But none of these sounds quite so awful as the swarming, biting insects that infest coastal Georgia twice a year. Sand gnats, colloquially referred to as biting midges, punkies, sand flies, sand
New York Mets Release Uniform Changes for 2015
The New York Mets unveiled a series of minor jersey and cap changes for the upcoming 2015 season today on their official Twitter account. Most noticeable is the change to their primary home jersey, cream is gone replaced by (ironically, more traditionally appropriate) plain old white. Pinstripes remain, sleeve patch featuring the
Did the Mets Try to Sneak a New Logo Past Us?
Did the New York Mets just get caught trying to alter the skyline of their famous logo? Last night, thanks to a couple of sharp-eyed Twitterers, we learned that the Mets were using a different version of their logo on their Facebook and Twitter accounts. The difference was in the skyline —
NewEra Unveils 8 New *Alternate BP* Caps for 2014
It’s hard to believe there was a point in time when most Major League Baseball clubs wore just one cap from the beginning of Spring Training straight through the end of the World Series. Today, NewEra, the exclusive provider of on-field caps for MLB unveiled new *alternate batting practice caps*
Majestic Unveils Ten New 2014 MLB B.P. Jerseys
Earlier today Majestic Athletic, the company which provides the authentic on-field jerseys for all 30 Major League Baseball teams, unveiled 10 new team batting practice jerseys for the 2014 season. The B.P. jerseys unveiled were for the Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, Miami Marlins, New York Mets, New York
Mr. Met Added to New York Mets 2014 Uniforms
Longtime New York Mets mascot “Mr. Met” will be making his regular season on-uniform début in 2014. The Mets will be adding a patch showing Mr. Met in a running pose, the same logo as what’s currently on their BP caps, to the sleeves of their two blue alternate jerseys.