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The 160 affiliated Minor League Baseball teams sold a record $70.8 million worth of merchandise in 2017, a 3.6 percent increase over 2016’s sales numbers, which were also a record. The increased sales can be attributed in part to a growing number of rebrands, promotional uniforms, and temporary identity changes.
The first Minor League Baseball regular season games are getting underway today and to celebrate that Major League Baseball clubs all across the league were Tweeting out photos wishing their affiliate clubs; I thought the cap collections were neat so I assembled them all together here for an easy cap/affiliate
Major League Baseball is set to open their 2018 championship season tomorrow with a full-slate of ball games, the first time every team in the league has opened the season on the same date in fifty years! Incredible. The off-season can be long (and cold and dark…), we know how
The Atlanta Braves have made a couple of changes heading into the 2018 season, but the one you’ll see the most of is the one you probably didn’t even notice happened at all… the Braves changed their colours. It’s a change so minor, so insignificant that the team is unlikely
The Hartford Yard Goats, double-A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies, are the latest minor league team to adopt a promotional food-based identity. Continuing a trend masterfully set by the wildly successful Fresno Grizzlies’ and their alternate Tacos identity back in 2015, the Yard Goats announced that they would play a
The year has come to a close and with that comes our announcement of the winners of the 2017 Creamer Awards, our sixth annual recognition of the best in new sports logos over the course of the past twelve months. Before we reveal the results I’d like to take a
Major League Baseball today unveiled their new series of batting practice and Spring Training baseball caps for all thirty MLB teams to be worn during the 2018 season. These caps will be worn during Spring Training games and for any pre-game activities during the regular season. The New Era caps,
Notice that sudden chill in the air? Ah, it feels like playoff baseball out there. The start of Major League Baseball’s Postseason is neck-and-neck with Opening Day as the best day of the year, of course that all depends what ballclub you cheer for. For me, it’s the first time
The Hartford Yard Goats, Double-A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies, are named for the most unglamorous, squat, workhorses of railroad locomotives. In the rail industry, yard goats, or switchers, hardly ever leave the rail yard. Instead, they toil in obscurity, spending their days moving trains around to get them ready
The minor league baseball team in Hartford, Connecticut, will pay homage to the city’s beloved, defunct hockey team, the Hartford Whalers, with special uniforms later this summer. The Double-A Hartford Yard Goats, who after an entire season on the road in 2016 are playing their first season with actual home
Welcome to the 2017 Major League Baseball season. I don’t know about you but as each year passes, the off-season seems shorter and shorter to me. I’m not complaining, just noting. Not a lot of major changes going into the new season, the San Diego Padres the only club to introduce
Just looking at those palm trees in the graphic above has me feeling nice and warm again. It must be time for baseball! Major League Baseball this morning unveiled their new 2017 Spring Training collection, this is the league’s second season (a look back at the 2016 launch here) treating the spring as one
