Some baseball purists still cringe at the notion of inter-league play during Major League Baseball’s regular season, but one indisputable benefit of the practice is the advent of cross-town series in markets with two teams. This gives us Mets-Yankees, Cubs-White Sox, and A’s-Giants for multiple series every season. Last summer,
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On-Uniform Respects Paid to Humboldt Broncos Accident Victims
Athletes throughout the National Hockey League and even a couple in Major League Baseball paid respects to the victims of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash yesterday. The bus carrying the Broncos team to a Saskatchewan Jr. Hockey League playoff game was involved in an accident on Friday night in which
Atlanta Braves Honour Memory of MLK Jr. With Jersey Patch
The Atlanta Braves are marking the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. this afternoon by wearing a special jersey patch during their game against the Washington Nationals. King, who was shot fifty years ago today in Memphis, was born, raised, and buried in the City
Miami Marlins will reportedly not wear orange jerseys in 2018
Ahead of the 2015 season, the Miami Marlins ended their off-and-on relationship with their alternate hats by deciding that they would no longer wear those orange hats that were so bright that you could see them from outer space on a clear night. Now, the brightness may have once again
New York Mets Add Memorial Patch for Rusty
Six-time Major League Baseball All-Star Rusty Staub died earlier this week, on opening day actually, at the age of 73. The New York Mets, with whom Staub played nine seasons over two different stints, announced that the team would be honouring Staub’s memory throughout the remainder of the 2018 season
MLB Teams Wearing Easter Pastel Colours Today
Major League Baseball players will look a little different as they hop around the bases today. To mark Easter Sunday, all thirty Major League clubs will be wearing Easter pastel coloured jerseys when they take the field, every team is wearing either pink, purple, yellow, green, or blue versions of
D-backs, Rays Throwing It Back 20 Years Today
If you’re a fan of baseball in 1998, you’re going to be happy today. Both the Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Rays are celebrating the 20th anniversaries of their inaugural games by wearing throwback uniforms today. The Arizona Diamondbacks will be wearing their 1998 cream white home jerseys with pinstripes
Marlins, Cubs Honour MSD Shooting Victims
The Miami Marlins and Chicago Cubs paid their respects today to the memory of 17 students and staff who were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in a school shooting last month. Both Marlins and Cubs players wore a burgundy ribbon with a white and blue
2018 Team-By-Team MLB Logo and Uniform Preview
Major League Baseball is set to open their 2018 championship season tomorrow with a full-slate of ball games, the first time every team in the league has opened the season on the same date in fifty years! Incredible. The off-season can be long (and cold and dark…), we know how
MLB Launches Hashtag Emojis for All 30 Teams
With Major League Baseball getting its 2018 season underway later this week the league has launched a set of custom hashtag emojis for Twitter for use throughout the season. Here they are: Is there such a thing as a hashtag traditionalist? If so, or whatever it’s called, that’s what
Baseball Hall of Fame Retires Chief Wahoo From Plaques
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum announced yesterday that the Cleveland Indians’ Chief Wahoo logo will no longer be used as the logo featured on any future plaques, including the one used for Hall of Fame-elect Jim Thome, who will be enshrined this summer. Their full statement: The
MLB Unveils 2018 Holiday Caps and Jerseys
Major League Baseball this afternoon released the 120 cap and 67 jersey designs which will be worn during holiday weekends throughout the upcoming 2018 regular season. In addition to the holiday uniforms a special patch has been created to be worn on caps and jerseys for Jackie Robinson Day on