The Worcester Red Sox—WooSox to friends—unveiled the on-field threads they’ll wear in their debut season next year, including nine jerseys and seven caps. The nine jerseys include three whites, three blues, two reds, and one gray, featuring the city’s name in a traditional Red Sox font, the team name in
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Umpires Wearing EC, CM, RR Patches in 2020
During the 2020 Major League Baseball season you may have noticed that all umpires are wearing three square patches featuring the initials EC, CM, and RR on their left sleeves. What are these patches for? Good question. All three are memorial patches, paying tribute to three former MLB umpires who
Baseball Players Celebrating Negro Leagues with Patch Sunday
What is the patch baseball players are wearing Sunday? All Major League Baseball teams and players will wear a red and white patch featuring the blue silhouette of a baseball player on their jerseys on Sunday, August 16, 2020. This patch is being worn in recognition of the 100th anniversary
Snap Decision: Beloit baseball considering a new name
The Beloit Snappers have gone by their current nickname for a quarter-century, but with an impending move to a new ballpark in 2021, the team is considering an overhaul to their entire brand. The Snappers’ issued a call for ideas on their website and are soliciting input through August 18.
Minor League Baseball announces top 25 teams, record sales in 2019
Minor League Baseball’s 160 affiliated teams sold a record $85.7 million in merchandise during the 2019 calendar year. That number is an increase of almost 17 percent over 2018’s then-record $74 million in sales, which was an increase of four percent over 2017’s then-record $71 million. Each year, MiLB announces
Fightin Phils to play as Reading Hot Dogs
The Double-A Reading Fightin Phils announced yesterday, on National Hot Dog Day, of course, that they will play some games next season as the Reading Hot Dogs. The team’s brand is forever intertwined with the encased sausage stuff, and according to their website, the Fightin Phils sell the most hot
What Patches are the Ballplayers Wearing Today?
What patch are baseball players wearing today? Today all Major League Baseball players are wearing a commemorative patch celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Negro National League. All Major League Baseball teams and players will wear a red and white patch featuring the blue silhouette of a
Every New Baseball Logo and Uniform for 2020
The 2020 Major League Baseball season is here… seriously this time. Of course, it may have taken four months later than originally scheduled and we have no idea where the Toronto Blue Jays will play but… baseball! Every year we do a run-down of all the changes heading into the
Authenticity, Collaboration, Respect: The Story Behind the Spokane Indians
Recent conversations about the use of Native American imagery in sports brands have been adversarial, at best. The now-former name of the football team in Washington, DC, was an actual racial slur. The Cleveland Indians used a cartoon caricature of a Native American as a logo for decades. Fans of
Let’s all Choose the Best Milwaukee Brewers Logo Ever
Back to the ball diamond here in Our Best Logo Ever! Tournament, with the recently refreshed Milwaukee Brewers. After fifteen years of wearing it as a throwback uniform, the Brewers finally returned to their classic “Ball-in- Glove-Logo” for the 2020 season. Special thanks to everyone who has participated in our
The Team with Two Names: WCL Unveils Nanaimo Baseball
The 13th team in the collegiate summer West Coast League will have two separate brands for day games and night games, drawing on two different aspects of the natural and cultural heritage of their home in British Columbia. By night, the team will be the Nanaimo NightOwls. The nickname, which
Blue Jays Announce Memorial Patch for Tony Fernandez
The Toronto Blue Jays this morning announced they would be wearing a commemorative patch in memory of former Blue Jay Tony Fernandez on their jersey sleeve for the entirety of their 2020 regular season. Fernandez, a member of the Blue Jays “Level of Excellence” and five-time All-Star appeared in nearly