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Imagine you’re a logo designer and you’ve been tasked with creating a brand for a minor league baseball team. You’re free to let the creativity flow, but you have a few constraints to consider: The team plays in a town called Casper, so the team is going to be called the
The ECHL’s Wichita Thunder will do away with their traditional blue in favor of red for a good cause Friday night. The team’s jerseys have been turned red and covered with an inspirational word cloud in support of the American Heart Association‘s mission to raise awareness of women’s heart health
The Philadelphia Phillies have joined the fray in Major League Baseball’s embrace of colorful jerseys. They’ll wear lightweight, red, Flex Base jerseys in six “Business Person Special” afternoon day games on April 14, May 18, June 8, June 20, July 6, and August 4. For the first time since 1979, the
One of the many pratfalls of having multiple alternate uniforms that are the same color is the possibility that one of the players could come out wearing the wrong gear. We’ve seen it multiple times in the past, but the latest victim is probably the highest-profile victim of the ol’
The Pittsburgh Pirates are goin’ back to the 1970s! If a potential leak on Twitter yesterday is accurate. Cue the poor, well-intending Pirates employee, sharing a photo of team uniforms hanging up; excited, he Tweets a photo showing the jerseys ready to go for the upcoming 2016 season. The problem? Yeah,
When the Toronto Maple Leafs start their centennial season this fall they’ll do so while wearing a combination of classic team designs. According to several of my good friends, all of which are named “anonymous reliable source”, the Leafs new look will appear kinda like a healthy mix between the two worn during the 1966/67 season,
The Houston Astros, fresh off their first-ever American League playoff berth, will unveil a new alternate uniform tomorrow afternoon at their annual FanFest. According to my best friend “anonymous reliable sources”, the new Astros uniform will be navy blue with the “ASTROS” wordmark across the chest similar to the dugout
Let’s make this perfectly clear: Football executives are not ornithologists. When it came to developing an identity for the new NFL franchise in Seattle in 1975, it’s safe to say that the team’s first priority was NOT to make sure all the bird nerds had their questions answered. The first
Minor league baseball teams have been drawing inspiration from popular myths for team names for decades—from knights and dragons to alien creatures to the elusive Chihuahuas of El Paso. In upstate New York, nestled among the Finger Lakes just south of the Canadian border, the tiny town of Auburn, New
The Minnesota Twins will have a new red alternate cap and jersey for the 2016 season. According to a Tweet from Dave St. Peter, the president of the ballclub, the Twins will add the scarlet set as a new home alternate uniform and will not be discontinuing any jersey from 2015: Minnesota has previously
It’s about to get country-music all up in here; the National Hockey League has unveiled the jerseys players will be wearing during the 2016 NHL All-Star Games later this month in Nashville aka “Music City”. The colours of the jerseys are black and white, symbolic of the keys on a piano; the player numbers
This story begins with a hockey fan who simply wanted a T-shirt for the minor league team he grew up with. It culminates with a brand-new beer that has reawakened an entire community’s love affair with its long-defunct team. The New Haven Nighthawks played in the American Hockey League for
