The Lehigh Valley IronPigs, Triple-A affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies in the International League, will play Friday home games next season wearing uniforms that evoke the 1950s—a decade more than half a century before the team’s 2008 debut. The “fauxback” brand unveiled today, created by Ryan Foose of Fooser Sports
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Lehigh Valley IronPigs City Connect series to highlight Bethlehem, PA
The Triple-A Lehigh Valley IronPigs’ “City Connect” series pays tribute to three Pennsylvania towns, Allentown, Bethlehem, and Easton, over the course of three seasons. Last year the first installment highlighted the famous strawberry pie at the Allentown department store Hess. This year the team will honor the “Christmas City” of
IronPigs pay tribute to Lehigh Valley with Shoofly Pies alternate
The Triple-A Lehigh Valley IronPigs will honor the Pennsylvania Dutch heritage of eastern Pennsylvania when they play as the Shoofly Pies this summer. While the name in the alternate identity suggests another minor league baseball food-based brand, the logo instead focuses on the fly that is being shooed away. Shoofly
MiLB teams commemorate eclipse with on-field gear
Do not look directly at these logos without protective eyewear! Many of the affiliated Minor League Baseball teams along the path of today’s eclipse had or are having promotions to commemorate the rare celestial event. MiLB is calling the series of coordinated events, most of which entail giving away branded
Lehigh Valley IronPigs to play as Cats
The Triple-A Lehigh Valley IronPigs have honored dogs with alternate identities a number of times, playing select games over the years as the Corgis, IronMutts, IronWeiners, and IronPugs. But for the first time, the team will pay tribute to dogs’ finicky, clawful cousins when they take the field as the
Pigs in Space! Lehigh Valley to commemorate eclipse
Just days after the Rochester Red Wings unveiled an alternate identity that will pay tribute to the Great North American Eclipse next month, their on-field opponents for that series announced they will join their counterparts in outer space. The Triple-A Lehigh Valley IronPigs unveiled a Space Pigs alternate featuring their
Lehigh Valley IronPigs to play as Mummers in salute to Philly
The Fancy Brigades, Wench Brigades, and String Bands are making their way to the ballpark! In their annual salute to Philadelphia, the Triple-A Lehigh Valley IronPigs, a Phillies affiliate, will play as the Mummers for at least one game this season. The nickname is a tribute to a New Years
Lehigh Valley IronPigs throw back to classic Phillies look
Since 2014, the Triple-A Lehigh Valley IronPigs have paid homage to their parent club with specialty home uniforms. They Pigs will continue that tradition in 2024 with uniforms that evoke Phillies jerseys of the 1970s and ’80s. The just-unveiled burgundy and powder blue brand calls back to one of the
Lehigh Valley IronPigs to salute Philly by playing as Hoagies
The Triple-A Lehigh Valley IronPigs polled vans about what they call the area’s iconic sandwich, and Hoagie beat Sub soundly (of course). With that, the team will take on the nickname “Hoagies” on its annual “Salute to Philly” night, which in previous years has seen the team play as “Jimmies,”
Lehigh Valley IronPigs to Play as “Wooder Ice” on Salute to Philly Night
The Triple-A Lehigh Valley IronPigs have paid homage to their parent club’s hometown in Philadelphia—just a short drive from their own hometown in Allentown, Pennsylvania—with Salute to Philly night. They’ve adopted temporary identities based on an ice cream confection (Jimmies, 2021), a multi-purpose slang term (Jawn, 2019), a specific play
IronPigs salute Lehigh Valley as Scrapple
The Triple-A Lehigh Valley IronPigs have long been associated with one pork product—their suite of logos includes a strip of bacon—but they added another this week. The team will play a game as the Lehigh Valley Scrapple, paying homage to a regional delicacy that can best be described as a
Lehigh Valley IronPigs salute Philly as Jimmies
The Triple-A Lehigh Valley IronPigs will take to the field as the Jimmies for their annual Salute to Philly game next month. The moniker Jimmies is a much-debated regional term for what most of the rest of the country calls sprinkles, that crunchy confection often used as an ice cream