We’ve been getting a lot of traffic to the site during the World Series with readers looking for the reason why the Boston Red Sox are wearing the black armband on their road grey uniforms. The armband is nothing new, the Red Sox added it to their road grey jersey
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2013 Detroit Tigers AL Phantom Champs Merchandise
As much as it pains me to say it, the Boston Red Sox are the 2013 American League Champions. Mr. John Farrell gets the last laugh (so far, anyways) and it stings right in the heart of this fan of the 2012-13 Off-season Champion Toronto Blue Jays. Anyways, Detroit pitched
2013 LA Dodgers NL Phantom Champs Merchandise
Congrats to the St. Louis Cardinals for winning the National League pennant last night in a thrilling 9-0 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers. Speaking of the Dodgers, they’ve been eliminated, and with that their National League championship merchandise has been thrown into the fires, or shipped off to third-world
Napoli Changes Pants, Changes Luck
Heading into the 7th inning of last nights 2013 ALCS Game 3 match between the Red Sox and Tigers, Boston first baseman Mike Napoli was 0 for 6 with 6 strikeouts in the series. Napoli had come to the plate the previous six times in the series wearing short pants
New 2014 MLB BP Jerseys Leaked; “Split-Coloured” Designs Revealed
Just a few hours after the 2013 regular season comes to a close, we have our first leak for the 2014 Major League Baseball season. When MLB ballclubs take to the field for Spring Training next February all 30 teams will have a new “batting practice” jersey, it happens every
Uniform News Week in Review: Sep 17-23, 2013
I encourage you all to please check out the latest in a series of weekly posts I’ll be doing for theScore.com’s new website, a weekly recap of all that’s gone down in the world of uniforms and logos, including some things I didn’t get the chance to cover here at
MLB Teams to Wear Patch Throughout Postseason
Much like teams have done for every World Series since 1987, all teams who make the MLB playoffs in 2013 will be wearing a special “Postseason” patch on their jerseys through the Wildcard, LDS, and LCS rounds. The standard World Series patch will then be applied to the jerseys of
Yankees Wearing Mariano Rivera Patch Today
The New York Yankees will be honouring the final homestand of Mariano Rivera’s career today by wearing a patch depicting their longtime closer on their uniform sleeve. Rivera’s number 42 was also retired by the Yankees during a pre-game ceremony. He is slated to retire following the 2013 season. The
Washington Nationals Players Wear U.S. Navy Caps Today
The Washington Nationals wore U.S. Navy caps before their game today to honour the victims of the shooting which took place at the Washington Navy Yard, just across the street from Nationals Park, yesterday afternoon. Joint Chiefs of Staff VC James A. Winnefeld, Jr. handed out the caps to the
Uniform News Week in Review: Sep 10-16, 2013
I encourage you all to please check out the first in a series of weekly posts I’ll be doing for theScore.com’s new website, a weekly recap of all that’s gone down in the world of uniforms and logos, including some things I didn’t get the chance to cover here at
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
Dodgers, Dbacks Set to Open 2014 in Australia
Major League Baseball this afternoon announced that the Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks will open the 2014 MLB season with two games in Sydney, Australia. And these aren’t just your boring old exhibition games but “genuine competition fixtures”, as the official MLB Sydney 2014 site describes them so brilliantly.