The Double-A Erie SeaWolves have all the qualities you’d expect from a loyal affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates. They play just under two hours north of the Bucs on the coast of Lake Erie, their nickname derives from a slang term for pirate, and their logo evokes Pittsburgh’s erstwhile primary mark
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Pillboxpalooza: Two Teams Wear Classic Style Yesterday
Remember last year when a pillbox cap at Cincinnati’s MLB All-Star Game just couldn’t be done? Those days are just a distant memory today. Two, yes two, Major League Baseball teams donned the classic 19th-century style cap during games this past weekend, the Pittsburgh Pirates during their usual Sunday home game
Pirates and Diamondbacks combine for an ugly uniform matchup
Folks, we’ve got a bit of a uniform crisis going on in Pittsburgh today. The Pirates are currently playing the Diamondbacks in some matinee baseball action. Day baseball is always fun, but that fun can be dampened a bit when the two teams involved aren’t exactly dressed to the nines.
Photos: Pirates Bring Back Pillbox, Debut Retro Uniform
Yesterday afternoon the Pittsburgh Pirates became the first Major League team in thirty years to wear a “pillbox”-style cap during a game. A pillbox cap is one with a flat crown, in the shape of a pill box, popular with early baseball teams in the 19th century. The last team to wear
Jared Hughes of Pittsburgh Pirates will test out new protective headgear
One of the primary concerns of sports in this day in age is making the games that athletes play safer, and one of the chief concerns in baseball is making sure that pitchers are safe when it comes to the dreaded scenario of a line drive hitting a pitcher in
Pirates Bring Back Pillbox, Complete 1979 Look for New Uniform
Pillbox caps are returning! After the so-close, yet so-far misfire that was the 2015 All-Star Game caps we just assumed such a thing was impossible in this modern age of universal cuts and templates. No more excuses, it can be done, and the Pittsburgh Pirates are the first to bring them
Are We Family? Pirates New 70s Retro Jersey Leaks
The Pittsburgh Pirates are goin’ back to the 1970s! If a potential leak on Twitter yesterday is accurate. Cue the poor, well-intending Pirates employee, sharing a photo of team uniforms hanging up; excited, he Tweets a photo showing the jerseys ready to go for the upcoming 2016 season. The problem? Yeah,
New Spring Training Uniforms Across MLB for 2016
Spring Training’s going to look a whole lot better in 2016. Today Major League Baseball, Majestic, and New Era announced a new unified on-field look for the annual slate of exhibition games held every March. The new look includes ball caps, lighter-weight uniforms featuring regular season designs, specially marked baseballs, and other on-field
Fishy Train: The Story Behind the Altoona Curve
There’s a 2,375-foot stretch of railroad tracks in central Pennsylvania that spins trains 180 degrees in a hairpin turn on their way over and across the Allegheny mountains. The so-called Horseshoe Curve, built from 1851 to 1854, is the tightest train track turn in the country. It’s been traveled by presidents
Honouring Our Veterans Via The Sports Uniform
Today is Veterans Day, or Remembrance Day in the United Kingdom and Canada, the 11th of November is a day set aside for paying respects and remembering those who fought to keep our nations free all those years ago. While several teams in the United States (and even some in Canada)
Best, Worst New Logos of 2014: SportsLogos.Net Readers’ Choice Awards
As we get set to enter the year of hover boards, self-lacing sneakers, and a Chicago Cubs World Series Championship we must first look back on the current year… 2014, which was my 18th running SportsLogos.Net. Overall 2014 was a rather uneventful year when it came to major re-brandings in the big
Pittsburgh Pirates Unveil New Camouflage Uniform
Yinz gotta see this… the Pittsburgh Pirates are goin’ camo. Their new digital camouflage alternate uniforms were unveiled this afternoon at “PirateFest” an annual off-season fan event. Cap crowns and pills are camouflage, bill is black. On the front is a black version of the primary “P” logo with a gold outline.