Seventy-six years ago, a chewing gum magnate and Major League Baseball owner by the name of Phillip K. Wrigley had a crazy notion, to have women play professional baseball. The world was at war, and with millions of North American men, including some of baseball’s biggest stars having been deployed
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Skeeters jerseys challenge opponents to “Come and Take It”
The 2018 Atlantic League champion Sugar Land Skeeters will defend their title wearing uniforms defying opponents to win. The independent Skeeters, led by manager Pete Incaviglia, a former Major Leaguer, will play the entire 2019 postseason wearing the specialty jerseys. The “Come and Take It” slogan is an homage to
Ribbons on Caps as MLB Teams, Players Remember 9-11
All across Major League Baseball tonight players, coaches, and umpires will be wearing a special ribbon patch on the side of their caps in memory of those lost on September 11, 2001. The patch consists of a red, white, and blue ribbon inside a blue circle, a version of the
Baseball Players Wearing Gold Ribbons, Wristbands Today
Why are Major League Baseball players wearing gold ribbons? All Major League Baseball players and umpires will be wearing gold/yellow ribbons and wristbands across the league for games played on Saturday, September 7, 2019. The special ribbons and gold wristbands are being worn in support of the fight against childhood
Adelaide Bite go back to their roots with Giant rebrand
When the original Australian Baseball League debuted in 1989, one of the founding teams was the Adelaide Giants. The Giants played 10 seasons and folded when that first ABL folded in 1999. When the ABL was resurrected in 2010, Adelaide, the capital of South Australia and the fifth largest city
Bowie Baysox celebrate Maryland as Crab Cakes
The Double-A Bowie Baysox will pay homage to their home state by taking the field as the Maryland Crab Cakes on Celebrate Maryland Night. Bucking the recent trend in Minor League Baseball, the promotional uniforms will not feature an anthropomorphized food item, but rather a pattern based on the state
MLB Baseball Players Wearing Black and White Uniforms This Weekend
Starting Friday and continuing on through Sunday, all Major League Baseball teams and players will either wear all black or all white uniforms — this includes all white or black cap logos and jersey logos to complete a total head-to-toe monochromatic match across the entire uniform. Why are baseball players
Chihuahuas unveil Bark in the Park promo jerseys
The El Paso Chihuahuas will wear specialty jerseys for their annual Bark in the Park promotion featuring a photo-realistic dog in a brown leather bag. When the Chihuahuas were first introduced in 2014, the reasons given for the unusual nickname were the team’s proximity to the Chihuahuan Desert, as well
Arizona Fall League updates team logos
Three weeks after releasing an updated logo for the league itself, Major League Baseball’s Arizona Fall League unveiled new and updated logos for its six teams over the course of the last three days. The teams listed below will take the field with rosters filled with rosters made up of
Lehigh Valley IronPigs blame typo for IronPugs promotion
To hear the Lehigh Valley IronPigs tell it, the reason they’ll be giving away 3,000 “IronPugs” T-shirts—and taking on a new logo and brand for one game—is simple typographical error by their general manager Kurt Landes. Per the team: “Landes ordered T-shirts for the August 19 giveaway and accidentally spelled
Yard Goats wonder what might have been
Usually, when a team holds a What Might Have Been promotional night, the runner-up brand that finally gets its day an outrageous alternative to the more conservative brand the team ended up going with. (For example, see the Northwest Arkansas Naturals alter-ego chicken-based uniforms.) Sunday, August 11, the Hartford Yard
Cubs, Pirates Reveal Their 2019 Little League Classic Uniforms
Later this month at Williamsport it’ll be the “Cubbies” against “The Burgh”. That’s what will grace the front of the respective uniforms of the Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates when the two clubs battle at BB&T Ballpark at Historic Bowman Field in Williamsport, Pennsylvania for the 3rd annual Little League