The San Diego Padres will be wearing a heart-shaped patch on the front of their uniforms during the 2024 season in memory of team chairman Peter Seider, who died this past November at the age of 63. The patch features Seider’s initials PS in brown in the Padres’ typeface within
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MLS Teams Commemorate 20th Anniversary of Sept. 11 Attacks
Patches are worn in the middle of the chest, are modeled after patches worn in 2001 when the league returned to action
Umpires Wearing EC, CM, RR Patches in 2020
During the 2020 Major League Baseball season you may have noticed that all umpires are wearing three square patches featuring the initials EC, CM, and RR on their left sleeves. What are these patches for? Good question. All three are memorial patches, paying tribute to three former MLB umpires who
MLB Teams to wear US Flags on Caps for 9/11
In their third go at doing the patriotic thing this season, Major League Baseball and NewEra Caps have finally figured out the proper way to do it. After having teams abandon their one most identifying element — their colour scheme — for both the Memorial Day, and Fourth of July
Remembering Lokomotiv Two Years Later
Two years ago this morning many of us woke up to the stunning news that the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey team out of the Kontinental Hockey League was involved in a plane crash, amongst the 45 players, coaches, trainers, and airline staff on board only 1 survived – a flight engineer.