The Hickory Crawdads, Single-A affiliate of the Texas Rangers, ruffled some feathers in January when they announced that they would rebrand as the Hickory Crawmoms—without revealing right away that the rebrand was temporary. “After 25 seasons of being the Crawdads, we decided that it was time for a change,” said
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MLB Announces 2019 London Series Between Yankees, Red Sox
Major League Baseball is coming to Europe next season, the league today announcing that the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox would be playing a series of regular season games in the United Kingdom in June 2019. Boston would serve as the home team for the two-game set to
Photos: Royals-Tigers in Negro League Throwbacks
The Kansas City Royals and Detroit Tigers turned the clock back to the early 1920s yesterday afternoon at Kaufman Stadium in Missouri to wear the uniforms of the Negro Leagues’ Kansas City Monarchs and Detroit Stars. Both teams were wearing uniforms based off of designs originally worn in 1920 all
Royals, Tigers Salute the Negro Leagues with Throwback Uniforms
The Kansas City Royals are hosting their annual Salute to the Negro Leagues game this afternoon at Kaufman Stadium against the Detroit Tigers. As always, a big part of the salute is with both clubs outfitted in Negro League throwback uniforms; and naturally the Royals will once again be donning
2018 Star Wars Themed Baseball and Hockey Uniforms
May the date be with you today as a simple speech impediment for some has turned into a celebration for others. Star Wars Day is here! Here’s a fun fact: of the twelve Star Wars theatrical releases, nine of them were released in the month of May… none of them
Graphics: What if Teams Could Never Change a Logo?
Say, what would it look like if teams just weren’t allowed to change their logo? A scary idea, I know… especially for a fella like me. What we’d see is an interesting mix of design eras scattered across the board; styles and colours considered to be “in” in any particular
Winning Ugly: Radom Enshrines the Bizarre in Baseball Uniforms
The Houston Astros “rainbow guts”; the Philadelphia Phillies all-maroon Saturday Night Specials, and oh yes, Turn Ahead the Clock Day. All of these were hideously ugly but still shall be remembered and because of the ugliness, loved by many for all-time. Todd Radom is a big league sports designer, brand
Bulls Honour Durham with DURM Night Uniforms
The Durham Bulls (Tampa Bay Rays AAA) will be celebrating their hometown once again this season with their 3rd annual “DURM Night” on Thursday, May 31st. As was the case in the previous two DURM Night events, the team will be wearing custom-designed uniforms by Runaway, the local Durham, NC
Bryce Harper adds Vegas Golden Knights sticker to his bat knob
Despite this being their very first season in existence, the Vegas Golden Knights are currently making an honest-to-goodness run at the Stanley Cup. There’s nothing in the rule book that says an expansion team can’t win it all in their very first season, right? Anyways, Golden Knights fever has struck
Las Vegas 51s to Get New Name, New Everything in 2019
After a series of mysterious windowless black vans were seen pulling away from the main offices of the Las Vegas 51s, the team announced they’d be getting a whole new identity for the 2019 season. Named for “Area 51”, a popular name for an Air Force Base located in Nevada,
MLB will not move to Under Armour until to 2020, per report
With the NFL, NBA and NHL making relatively recent switches when it came to league-wide apparel suppliers, it was only right that MLB would eventually make a switch of their own. Indeed, MLB was initially set to switch from Majestic to Under Armour in time for the 2019 season. However,
Athletics, White Sox Throwing It Back 50 Years
The Oakland Athletics and Chicago White Sox will set the clock back 50 years to 1968 tomorrow night. To mark the 50th anniversary of the Athletics first season after relocating from Kansas City to Oakland, the A’s and White Sox will both we wearing uniform designs based on what the