The Cubs and White Sox will both pay heavy respect to two of their fallen legends this weekend at Wrigley Field and again in August across Chicago. For the finale of their series this weekend, the Cubs and White Sox will don the uniforms made famous by Ernie Banks and Minnie Minoso,
Category: Baseball
What a Ride: The Story Behind the Brooklyn Cyclones
More than four decades after the Dodgers broke the hearts of Brooklyn’s baseball fans by moving to Los Angeles, the sport returned to the borough in the form of a short-season class A Mets affiliate located on Coney Island—with a rickety old roller coaster called the Cyclone looming just beyond
MLB Fourth of July Stars and Stripes Uniform Matchups
The Stars and Stripes Forever! Major League Baseball will be running out that theme across the uniforms of all 29 of their U.S. based clubs for games played on American Independence Day; Saturday, July 4th. Teams will wear a sublimated waving American flag pattern on the front panel of their
Blue Jays, Red Sox to Honour Canada on Uniforms Today
“It’s Canada Day up Canada way on the first day of July, and we’re shoutin’ “hooray!” up Canada way, when the maple leaf flies high”… the words of the apparently mortal, late, great Stompin’ Tom Connors. The Toronto Blue Jays will be hosting the Boston Red Sox this afternoon in their
Leading the Charge: The Story Behind the Frisco RoughRiders
On July 1, 1898—117 years ago this Wednesday—the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry charged alongside other military regiments (most notably the Buffalo Soldiers) into the bloody Battle of San Juan Hill in Cuba, helping to deliver a decisive blow in the Spanish-American War. With Spanish troops retreating and ultimately leaving Cuba shortly
Grizzlies-River Cats rivalry hits right in the logo
The Fresno Grizzlies and Sacramento River Cats, both Triple-A Pacific Coast League teams from California, do not like each other. That rivalry is coming to a head this weekend with the Grizzlies hosting “Grumpy Cat Night” to kick off a series against the RiverCats. The Grizzlies have been pulling the River
That Nashville Sound: The Story Behind the Nickname
Nashville, Tennessee, had been home to a rich music scene since the late 1800s, but it was the debut of two clear-channel radio stations in the 1920s that cemented the city’s reputation as Music City, USA. WSM and WLAC launched in 1925 and 1926 respectively, drawing performers who hoped to find their own stylings
2015 MLB All-Stars to Wear Striped Caps in Cincinnati
The 2015 Major League All-Star Game will feature players wearing horizontally striped caps, this information courtesy an eBay auction first reported by Uni-Watch this morning and then later confirmed by ESPN this afternoon. Caps will have two thick horizontal stripes on a contrasting front-panel, a confusing design to say the least. While
Here there be the story behind the Dayton Dragons
Dayton, Ohio, is inextricably linked with the history of aviation. The city was home to Orville (who was born there) and Wilbur Wright, who are credited with inventing manned flight. (They weren’t the first to build a machine that could fly, but they were the first to invent a machine
Stars and Stripes Caps, Jerseys Worn Across MLB for July 4th
Major League Baseball, Majestic, and New Era have unveiled the 2015 July 4th “Stars and Stripes” on-field uniform collection, and for the first time special jersey designs will be worn as part of the celebration. Caps will be either red or blue, depending on the preference of the team, and
RoughRiders Full House Night will be “spectacularly awful”
Last winter, when the double-A Frisco RoughRiders started planning their “Salute to Full House” theme night for this Friday, June 12, no one knew anything about the forthcoming and much-ballyhooed Full House spinoff on Netflix. That was just a stroke of luck—or maybe the result of some sort of sixth sense from
Doing the Twist: The Story Behind the Omaha Storm Chasers
There are a lot of sports teams named after severe weather or natural disasters—Avalanche, Hurricanes, Quakes, Storm, Thunder, etc. But very few teams are named for the people who actually head out into the world in intentional pursuit of extreme weather events. The term storm chasing is most commonly associated with