In an ever-growing age of standardization, it seems as if it’s getting harder and harder for players to express some sort of individuality when it comes to sports. Granted, you don’t want to see players going crazy and wearing/sporting random accessories that are too crazy, but it’s nice to give
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Royals Will Celebrate Title With Gold Cap, Jersey for Two Games
With a 30-year break betweenWorld Series titles, the Kansas City Royals have seized on a golden opportunity to celebrate. The Royals will celebrate their 2015 championship in style when the 2016 season opens, wearing caps highlighted in gold for opening day on April 3 and their second game on April 5, when they receive their
Look Out for Chattanooga’s New Look in 2016
The Chattanooga Lookouts, Southern League Double-A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins, unveiled their new uniforms via an event earlier this morning. Despite the affiliation with the Twins, the uniforms appear to be more of a mix between the Cincinnati Reds and the old Negro League Kansas City Monarchs. This replaces
Ballclub Re-Brands As Cheesesteaks for One Night Only
The Lehigh Valley IronPigs have announced they will be known as the Cheesesteaks for one night only in 2016, a nod to their in-state Major League affiliate, the Philadelphia Phillies. This follows the popular “Taco Night” promotion held by the Fresno Grizzlies last season (and will again this Summer) in
Seattle Mariners wear two different uniforms during spring training game
Oh, spring training. Everybody loves you because you’re the official sign that baseball (that actually counts) is right around the corner, but you’re also a prime location for all sorts of weirdness. It’s the quirkiness of spring training that can help make it go by quicker, and nothing’s quirkier than
A Colour Wheel of Minor League Baseball logos
When Isaac Newton devised the first colour wheel in the late 1600s, he famously observed the fruits of his labor and thought, “Now, where do the El Paso Chihuahuas fit on this thing?” Well, we’ve answered that question with this thing here, a colour wheel made up of the logos of
Graphic: Every Colour Scheme in MLB History (1900-2016)
Major League Baseball has itself a pretty colourful palette, from the green and gold of the Oakland Athletics to the red and turquoise of the Arizona Diamondbacks there’s a team for a fan of pretty much any colour out there. But it hasn’t always been this way. In this post
Pirates Bring Back Pillbox, Complete 1979 Look for New Uniform
Pillbox caps are returning! After the so-close, yet so-far misfire that was the 2015 All-Star Game caps we just assumed such a thing was impossible in this modern age of universal cuts and templates. No more excuses, it can be done, and the Pittsburgh Pirates are the first to bring them
Orix Buffaloes of Japan will wear plaid jerseys in 2016
Remember how everybody went wild over the Arizona Diamondbacks and their new uniforms that seemingly bucked most of what we’ve come to know and love about traditional baseball uniforms? Well, get ready for a couple of uniforms that make those look like the New York Yankees’ traditional pinstripes. The Orix
New York Mets will wear 1986 throwbacks “multiple times” this season
This season will mark the 30th anniversary of the New York Mets’ famous run to the 1986 World Series title, and the team will be marking the occasion by breaking out the uniforms that they wore for that season. That’s right: The racing stripes will be coming back, and not
Are We Family? Pirates New 70s Retro Jersey Leaks
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,
New Spring Training Uniforms Across MLB for 2016
Spring Training’s going to look a whole lot better in 2016. Today Major League Baseball, Majestic, and New Era announced a new unified on-field look for the annual slate of exhibition games held every March. The new look includes ball caps, lighter-weight uniforms featuring regular season designs, specially marked baseballs, and other on-field