For the second-straight season, Aaron Judge is the player whose jersey is most coveted by American baseball fans. The annual list released by Major League Baseball puts Judge on the top of the league with Houston Astros star Jose Altuve, helped by both a World Series and MVP Award jumped
Category: Baseball
Round Rock Express introduce new logos with Astros affiliation
Every two years, baseball fans get to witness one of the true wonders of the sports world: the expiration of player development contracts that Major League clubs have with the minor league teams in their farm systems. At most levels, there’s one minor league team for each Major League team,
Report: Marlins In Teal Again in 2019
Hey, when it’s abundantly obvious what the people want, you should just give ’em what they want! (*nudges the San Diego Padres hard with an elbow*) According to a report on SBNation’s “Fish Stripes”, the Miami Marlins will break out their teal throwback uniforms once again during the 2019 season
Milwaukee Milkmen join baseball’s American Association
If you’re going to have a baseball team in Milwaukee, you’d better name it for people responsible for providing beverages. The Big League Milwaukee Brewers have company in a city famous for its Harley-Davidson headquarters, its bronze statue of Arthur Fonzarelli, and its preponderance of beer and dairy products. The
Australian Baseball League expands to New Zealand with Auckland Tuatara
When the Australian Baseball League starts its 2018-2019 season this November, the league will feature its first Kiwi team, the Auckland Tuatara. Since the inception of its current iteration in 2009, the ABL has included six teams, all of them within that nation’s boundaries. The inclusion of a team across
MLB: Ribbons Worn on Caps Across Baseball In Memory of 9-11
Once again, teams all across Major League Baseball will mark the anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 attacks on Washington and New York with the wearing of a commemorative patch. For 9/11 this year, the twenty-nine teams based in the United States will wear a red-white-and-blue ribbon patch inside a
Throwback Uniforms as Tigers, Cardinals Remember ’68 Series
They say don’t wear white after Labour Day, the Detroit Tigers are taking that advice to heart this afternoon at Comerica Park. The Tigers are taking the field in road greys at home as the club honours their World Series-clinching game from the 1968 Fall Classic against the St. Louis Cardinals,
Orioles blaze trail with Braille jerseys
In a season filled with losses, here’s a win for the Baltimore Orioles. The team will wear jerseys that feature Braille writing to honor the National Federation for the Blind—a national organization with 50,000 members, marking its 40th year headquartered in Baltimore. The jerseys, the first of their kind in
Indians Remove Chief Wahoo from Uniform in Toronto
An unscheduled Turn Ahead the Clock game was played last night in Toronto as the Cleveland Indians took to the field wearing, what we can probably assume, is their new road uniform for the 2019 season. Chief Wahoo was absent, entirely, from the team’s uniform – not on the cap,
Introducing the Rocket City Trash Pandas
When the Double-A Mobile BayBears relocate to Madison, Alabama, in 2020, they will be called Rocket City Trash Pandas, a name chosen in a recently completed name-the-team contest. More than two-thirds of fans chose the geographic identifier Rocket City (because of the areas ties to the aerospace industry) over two
MLB: Gold Ribbons & Wristbands Worn Across Baseball Sept. 1st
All Major League Baseball players and umpires will be wearing gold/yellow ribbons and wristbands across the league for games played on Saturday, September 1, 2018. The special ribbons and gold wristbands are being worn in support of the fight against childhood cancer, it is the third consecutive season the league
Myrtle Beach Pelicans wearing Carolina Panthers-inspired jerseys
In their final home game of the season, the Myrtle Beach Pelicans, high-A affiliate of the Chicago Cubs, are taking the field tonight wearing the colors of their NFL neighbors to the north, the Carolina Panthers. For the “Two States. One Team” promotion, the Pelicans of South Carolina will wear