For Father’s Day today all thirty Major League Baseball teams will be wearing powder blue and graphite versions of their usual home, road, or alternate uniforms. Caps will be graphite with powder blue logos, jerseys will be usual team colour with all wordmarks, player numbers, and patches in blue and graphite.
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Penguins Add a Cup to 50th Anniversary Logo
Before the 2016 Stanley Cup Playoffs got underway the Pittsburgh Penguins introduced their 50th anniversary logo, the logo celebrated the history of the franchise including the three Stanley Cup championships the club had won. “So… they’re saying they won’t win this year?” was a common Tweet sent to me at
For Orlando: Tampa Bay to Wear Orlando Rays Caps Tonight
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One week from today the Toronto Maple Leafs will be unveiling their new home and road uniforms, their first *major* uniform re-design in over 20 years. As they introduce their first pick in the 2016 NHL Draft on Friday, June 24th the team will also be unveiling their new sweaters,
Indiana Pacers Celebrate 50th Season in 2017
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Toronto Blue Jays Release 2016 Canada Day Uniform
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Graphic: Stanley Cup Championship Uniforms 1918-2016
Last summer we created a graphic which received a fair amount of attention depicting the uniform worn for each Stanley Cup clinching victory since the dawn of the NHL era (1918). In that post we complied a whole host of (what I consider to be) interesting and very uniform-nerdy stats
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Gordon Howe, “Mr. Hockey”, died earlier this morning at the age of 88. Mr. Howe played professional hockey longer than any other human being who has ever existed on this planet. He began in the NHL in 1946, starting with the Detroit Red Wings, with whom he stayed for 25