There’s nothing baseball fans would like more right now than the opportunity to be sweating through a baseball game on a hot summer afternoon. In the absence of actual sweaty baseball games, the Double-A Mississippi Braves unveiled a sweaty alternate identity that they’ll wear for one game when baseball finally
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The Green Caps & Jerseys Teams Were Going to Wear for St Patrick’s Day 2020
Back over in the good timeline, it’s a day of green across the professional sports world! The annual St. Patrick’s Day celebration is the perfect excuse for teams to come out with special green and/or Irish themed uniforms both to wear and to sell. In Major League Baseball we would’ve
Minor League Baseball unveils 2020 Copa de la Diversion caps
We wrote back in the November about the 26 new alternate brands that we’ll see in Minor League Baseball’s growing and increasingly popular Copa de la Diversión (Fun Cup) program in 2020. Ninety-two of the 160 affiliated teams will participate this year (provided this season actually takes place at some
Binghamton Rumble Ponies add jersey, cap with new logo
The Double-A Binghamton Rumble Ponies unveiled an alternate uniform set featuring a new logo derived from two of their existing marks. The new logo features the team’s signature carousel horse flipped so that it’s facing left instead of right, combined with a modified version of an alternate logo that represents
Art-Forms: Preserving the Visual Legacy of Women in Baseball
If sorting through stacks of vintage programs and pouring over their hand-lettered advertisements floats your root beer, then the work of Anika Orrock will absolutely blow your mind. Orrock’s aesthetic harkens back to a golden age of youth, one where you sat at the breakfast table next to your father.
Northwest Arkansas Naturals add new logo, BP cap
The Northwest Arkansas Naturals, Double-A affiliate of the Kansas City Royals, unveiled a new logo that pays homage to their home state and their parent club. The new mark features an outline of the state of Arkansas, “the Natural State,” capped by a Royals-esque crown. In the northwest corner of
Crawdads to play as Hickory Couch Potatoes
The Single-A Hickory Crawdads will combine two local leading industries into one alternate identity this season. Hickory, North Carolina, is known as the “Furniture Capital of the World” for it prominence in that market, and the state of North Carolina is the nation’s leading producer of sweet potatoes. Put them
Akron RubberDucks to become ConeTown USA for one game
The Akron RubberDucks will celebrate all things construction for one game this season. The team will rebrand as ConeTown USA, an alternate identity they’re promoting with the tagline, “No matter how long it takes, Akron’s a city building towards a better tomorrow.” The ConeTown logo features an anthropomorphized construction cone
Blue Wahoos to go powder blue in 2020
The Double-A Pensacola Blue Wahoos announced that they will wear powder blue uniforms for some games in 2020. The Blue Wahoos will pair their unique brand of bright pink—Rubine Red, to be exact—with the light blue popularized on the 1970s and ’80s road uniforms of teams like the Philadelphia Phillies,
Lexington Legends to play as Kentucky Beer Cheese
The Lexington Legends made a cheesy choice for their first-ever food-based alternate brand. They’ll take on the identity of beer cheese, a local specialty. Beer cheese is most often served as a spread on crackers, as depicted in the team’s logo, but it can also be a topping on sandwiches
Altoona Curve to play as Brookies
The Altoona Curve, Double-A affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates, will pay homage to central Pennsylvania’s fishing culture by playing a series of games as the Altoona Brookies. Brookies, a nickname for brook trout, are a popular target of local recreational fishers in the freshwater lakes and creeks in the northeastern
2020 Spring Training New Team Uniforms, Patches, and Logos
Psst… there’s a full slate of baseball games today. Just reading that it’s startin’ to feel a little more like Spring now isn’t it (just, try not to look out the window) With the new Spring Training season upon us, we get a whole new collection of Major League caps,