All thirty Major League Baseball clubs will wear the memorial patch shown above in honour of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting which took place in December of last year. The teams will each wear the patch for their opening day games. The patch features the town
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Cardinals to Wear Stan Musial Memorial in 2013
The St. Louis Cardinals will honour the memory of Stan Musial, easily the greatest player in the history of their franchise, who died in January at the age of 92. Unlike most memorial patches Stan’s memorial will not feature any traces of black, Cardinals team president Bill DeWitt III explained
Brewers Jersey Design Winner Shares His Story
Earlier during this off-season the Milwaukee Brewers held a contest, one which allowed a fan the opportunity to design a uniform to be worn by the club during a Brewers’ Spring Training contest. That game was finally played this past Friday, a 4-1 loss to the Chicago Cubs at the
Netherlands, Puerto Rico WBC Phantom Champs Merchandise
Congratulations to the Dominican Republic for clinching their first-ever World Baseball Classic championship with a win over Puerto Rico last night in a soggy San Francisco. The Dominican Republic becomes the first team not named Japan to win the tournament and also the first one to win with an undefeated
Goin’ Green: A photo roundup of St Patricks Day 2013 Uniforms
Yesterday in honour of St. Patrick’s Day dozens of teams from all around North American sports leagues put aside their usual caps and uniforms in favour of a green or Irish-themed version. Below are photos of all the teams who went green in one way or another to celebrate St.
Mariners Dropping Teal, Going Cream and Gold in 2014?
It would be a shame if this were to end up happening, but the Seattle Mariners may be getting rid of their iconic teal secondary colour in favour of “old gold”. In a post made by Ebbets Field Flannels on their Facebook fan page on February 28, 2013, which was quickly
MLB13: The Show Uniforms Preview – AL East
MLB13: The Show for the Sony PlayStation 3 was released in North America earlier this week, a game which prides itself, and almost always delivers, in its high-levels of authenticity. One of the features in the game is the ability to choose one of several uniform designs for any given
Orioles Wearing Earl Weaver Memorial Patch
The Baltimore Orioles began wearing a memorial patch to honor their departed former manager, Earl Weaver last Saturday. The have announced they will wear them throughout the season. At Ed Smith Stadium, the Orioles had a moment of silence for the manager, who died last month at the age of
Pittsburgh Pirates to Have New Logo in 2014
It’s Spring Training! Which means once again Pirates fans are already starting to look ahead to next season, but this time it’ll be because of a new logo. The Pittsburgh Pirates announced on Monday night that they will be ditching the red bandana wearing pirate design they’ve been using as
Updates on New MLB BP Caps Plus Lots of Photos
Pitchers and catchers will be reporting to all thirty Major League Baseball camps over the next three days which means we’ll FINALLY get a real-life look at all these new batting practice caps. In the meantime, some photos are trickling in as well as some important (to us anyways) news
Photos of all 2013 MLB BP Caps
Thanks to a posting on our Facebook wall from Joel Johnson we now have actual photos of every new MLB batting practice cap for the upcoming 2013 season. The photo appears to come from a catalogue, perhaps a NewEra one, still awaiting word on the original source of the image
Our first real-life pics of the new MLB BP caps
The Dunedin Blue Jays tweeted out a pic of the new Toronto Blue Jays batting practice cap today giving us our first real life pic of the front and back of the new style of caps, and it came with a surprise. They weren’t present on the stylesheets we were