It’s finally time for the 2024 Major League Baseball season to (truly) get underway! This means it’s also time for my annual detailed look at all the uniform and logo changes you’ll see on the ballfield throughout the next six to seven months of baseball bliss. This year, we saw
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Winston-Salem Dash to play as Hype Hens
Last year, the High-A Winston-Salem Dash rebranded as the Hyphens on Salute to Winston-Salem Night. It was a response to a decade and a half of grammar nerds (myself included) pointing out that the piece of punctuation that conjoins Winston and Salem is in fact not a dash, but rather
Kenosha Kingfish to play as Kenosha Kickers on Home Alone Night
Cue the accordion! The collegiate summer-level Kenosha Kingfish hope to be the Polka Kings of the Midwest when they take to the field as the Kenosha Kickers for one game this season. The Kenosha Kickers are a fictional polka band from the movie Home Alone, led by John Candy’s Gus
Asheville Tourists unveil new look for Hippies alternate
The High-A Asheville Tourists first adopted their alternate Hippies identity after losing (actually tying) a Twitter-fueled bet with the Greenville Drive in 2017. After the Drive repeatedly taunted Asheville with jokes on social media about their town being filled with hippies, the two teams made a bet that the loser
Biloxi Shuckers honor seagulls with Beach Chickens identity
Just a few weeks after unveiling their first-ever alternate identity, the Double-A Biloxi Shuckers unveiled a second alternate for the 2024 season. The team will play as the Biloxi Beach Chickens, a wink and a nod to the seagulls that frequent the town’s beaches. (Of course, Beach Chickens is not
Columbia Fireflies to play as Carolina Grits
Grind up dried maize or hominy and make a porridge out of it and what do you have? The newest entry in Minor League Baseball’s decades-long food frenzy, the Carolina Grits. The Columbia Fireflies are celebrating the Southern culinary staple with a new alternate identity just unveiled this week. “Dating
Lehigh Valley IronPigs to play as Cats
The Triple-A Lehigh Valley IronPigs have honored dogs with alternate identities a number of times, playing select games over the years as the Corgis, IronMutts, IronWeiners, and IronPugs. But for the first time, the team will pay tribute to dogs’ finicky, clawful cousins when they take the field as the
Wichita Wind Surge to play as Chili Buns
The Double-A Wichita Wind Surge will pay tribute to a time-honored midwestern culinary tradition when they play as the Chili Buns for two games this season. The logo features the confection itself, a cinnamon roll nestled in a bowl of chili—not to be confused with another style of chili buns,
MLB Little League Classic Logo Gets an Update for 2024
Major League Baseball’s annual trip to Williamsport will come with a slightly new logo in 2024. For the 7th annual edition of the game, MLB has kept the same structure of the logo but adjusted the typeface and colours and shifted where the competing team logos are placed. Take a
Myrtle Beach Pelicans commemorate 25 seasons with logo
The year was 1999. We were Livin’ La Vida Loca with Ricky Martin, Jar Jar Binks graced the big screen for the first time in Star Wars Episode 1, and batteries and canned goods were flying off the shelves as we braced for the global meltdown that would be Y2K.
Red Sox to Wear Heart-Shaped 49 Patch for Tim Wakefield
The Boston Red Sox will wear a special patch on their jersey in memory of former pitcher Tim Wakefield throughout the 2024 season. Today, the Major League Baseball club announced they would be adding a navy blue heart with Wakefield’s #49 in a red Boston Red Sox jersey-style font trimmed
Dodgers, Padres to Wear Commemorative Seoul Patches in Korea
The Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres are getting set to kick off the 2024 Major League Baseball championship season with a pair of games in Seoul, South Korea, this week. As part of the historic two-game opening series, the Dodgers and Padres are both sporting commemorative patches on