Why are the Tampa Bay Rays wearing a “VJN” patch on their jersey during the 2019 Major League Baseball Postseason? The patch was first added to their uniform sleeve on August 30th and has been worn for every game played since. It was added in honour of Vincent Joseph Naimoli,
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Connecticut Tigers announce team name finalists
Fans of the short-season Class A Connecticut Tigers will select a new nickname from five finalists that the team just unveiled today. All five options include the geographic signifier of the team’s hometown, Norwich, rather than Connecticut, which they have used since their inception in 2010. Three of the options
AAGPBL Still Celebrating Women in Sports Nearly 80 Years Later
Seventy-six years ago, a chewing gum magnate and Major League Baseball owner by the name of Phillip K. Wrigley had a crazy notion, to have women play professional baseball. The world was at war, and with millions of North American men, including some of baseball’s biggest stars having been deployed
Ribbons on Caps as MLB Teams, Players Remember 9-11
All across Major League Baseball tonight players, coaches, and umpires will be wearing a special ribbon patch on the side of their caps in memory of those lost on September 11, 2001. The patch consists of a red, white, and blue ribbon inside a blue circle, a version of the
Baseball Players Wearing Gold Ribbons, Wristbands Today
Why are Major League Baseball players wearing gold ribbons? All Major League Baseball players and umpires will be wearing gold/yellow ribbons and wristbands across the league for games played on Saturday, September 7, 2019. The special ribbons and gold wristbands are being worn in support of the fight against childhood
Adelaide Bite go back to their roots with Giant rebrand
When the original Australian Baseball League debuted in 1989, one of the founding teams was the Adelaide Giants. The Giants played 10 seasons and folded when that first ABL folded in 1999. When the ABL was resurrected in 2010, Adelaide, the capital of South Australia and the fifth largest city
MLB Baseball Players Wearing Black and White Uniforms This Weekend
Starting Friday and continuing on through Sunday, all Major League Baseball teams and players will either wear all black or all white uniforms — this includes all white or black cap logos and jersey logos to complete a total head-to-toe monochromatic match across the entire uniform. Why are baseball players
Cubs, Pirates Reveal Their 2019 Little League Classic Uniforms
Later this month at Williamsport it’ll be the “Cubbies” against “The Burgh”. That’s what will grace the front of the respective uniforms of the Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates when the two clubs battle at BB&T Ballpark at Historic Bowman Field in Williamsport, Pennsylvania for the 3rd annual Little League
Cardinals Change Their Classic STL Cap Logo
The St. Louis Cardinals have “soft launched” changes to their iconic “STL” logo via their local TV broadcasts and social media channels. This information courtesy user “BigRed618” at our SportsLogos.Net Message Boards with later additional confirmation by boards member Justin Striebel (username STL FANATIC) and the St. Louis Business Journal.
Black and White Uniforms Across MLB For Players’ Weekend 2019
Major League Baseball’s most colourful event of the year will be a little less so in 2019. This afternoon the Players’ Weekend uniforms for 2019 were unveiled by both the league and the Major League Baseball Players Association, the uniforms, head-to-toe, are either monochromatic black or monochromatic white — with
2019 World Series, Postseason Logos Officially Revealed by MLB
Major League Baseball today announced its 2019 Postseason and World Series schedule and along with that, the logos for each of the postseason rounds we’ll be seeing everywhere this coming October. The big feature is the rainbow of colour that surrounds several of these logos – the intention being to
San Francisco Giants Peter and Stretch Patches Explained
Throughout the 2019 season the San Francisco Giants have been wearing two black and orange patches on the right sleeves of all their uniforms. On top is a black rectangle trimmed in orange reading “PETER” in orange letters, below that is a black circle with an orange “44” and “STRETCH”