There are a lot of thoughts on the new Nike MLB City Connect Uniform series. Fans seem equally divided between either loving or hating the off-the-wall, colourful, tradition-bending designs. But one thing’s absolutely certain: they’re doing crazy numbers in the merchandise game. Like, record-breaking numbers. Every. Single. Time. The City
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Houston Astros Blast Off with New 2022 Space City Connect Uniform
Houston, we have a uniform. The Houston Astros this morning became the second team to unveil their Nike MLB City Connect uniform for the 2022 season following the Washington Nationals late last month. Five more teams will follow before the end of the year. Paying tribute to Houston’s contributions to
Houston Astros Announce 60th Anniversary Patch on Caps, Jerseys in 2022
The Houston Astros are up on the launching pad and ready to blast off into their 60th anniversary season in 2022. Throughout the 2022 season, the Astros will be wearing a commemorative “60 Years” patch on the sleeve of their jerseys and the right side of their ballcaps. The logo
My God, It’s Full of Stars: Sugar Land Skeeters rebrand as Space Cowboys
The Triple-A baseball team in Sugar Land, Texas, made it official today after the news leaked last week, they’re now the Space Cowboys. The new identity, unveiled this afternoon, features an astronaut whose visor is reflecting a field of stars, and who is wearing a cowboy hat and bandanna—paying tribute
Houston Astros Wear Apollo 11 Caps for 50th Anniversary
That’s one great cap for a team… The Houston Astros will recognize the 50th anniversary of the first humans to land on the moon on Monday night when they wear special caps featuring the insignia of that historic Apollo 11 space mission during their game against the Oakland Athletics. On
Photos: Astros, Mariners Throw It Back 30 Years
The Houston Astros and Seattle Mariners threw it back to the early 1990s (or late 1980s) last night at the Astrodome Minute Maid Park in Houston. Houston wore their front-button home whites, worn originally from 1989-1993 with the rainbow racing stripes down each sleeve and straight “ASTROS” wordmark with a
Round Rock Express to don classic Astros fauxbacks
The Round Rock Express, newly minted Triple-A affiliate of the Houston Astros, already unveiled new logos this offseason to reflect their new parent club, and now they’ve unveiled “fauxback” jerseys and hats that emulate one of the most distinctive looks from the Astros’ fashionable history. The team announced that for
Round Rock Express introduce new logos with Astros affiliation
Every two years, baseball fans get to witness one of the true wonders of the sports world: the expiration of player development contracts that Major League clubs have with the minor league teams in their farm systems. At most levels, there’s one minor league team for each Major League team,
When Baseball Teams Wear the Same Colour
Well, one of us is going to have to change… Less than 48 hours after their glorious throwback to the colourful 1979 season, the Houston Astros and Seattle Mariners did a complete 180 for Sunday’s series finale. The visiting Mariners opted to wear their navy blue alternate uniforms with matching
Photos: Mariners, Astros Throw Back to 1979
The Houston Astros and Seattle Mariners turned the clock back to 1979 last night at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Tex. with both clubs wearing throwback uniforms based on the original designs from that season. Despite this matchup never actually occurring while the uniforms were originally worn (the teams were in different
All Hail the King: Champion Astros in Gold to open 2018
The Houston Astros will open the 2018 season by wearing gold-trimmed uniforms for their first two home games of the season. Using the usual Astros home jersey template, the special World Champions jersey replaces the blue in the arched “ASTROS” wordmark with gold, the orange which typically trims this wordmark
2017 World Series: Astros vs Dodgers Uniform Histories
As far as uniforms go, this year’s World Series is a battle between consistency and anything but. From the National League you’ve got the Los Angeles Dodgers, whose only drastic uniform change in the past 70 season was due to the relocation of the team battling the American League’s Houston