What made it so great: Credit A's owner Charlie Finley, who ran the team when it debuted its yellow jerseys in the '70s, designed to pop out on television. At the time, the idea of catering uniforms to TV seemed radical, but many teams soon followed suit (see the Astros above). ...
Uni Watch Lifetime Achievement ScholarMark Mihalikis tracking an interesting trend: MLB players who wear cleated versions of basketball sneakers. Among those he's identified, past and present, areEric Chavez(wearing theJumpman Team Flow, plus hepreviouslywore theNike Shox BB4);Frank Thomas(theNike...
It was an ESPN producer calling from Bristol, Conn., with the power to make the Mariners’ event go as viral as things could back in 1998. That night, the network opened “SportsCenter” with a segment highlighting Seattle’s “Turn Ahead the Clock” night. A group of MLB marketers in ...
Every team with a home game Wednesday will display “4-ALS” logos in their ballpark, commemorating Gehrig’s jersey number. All players, managers and coaches will wear a special “Lou Gehrig Day” patch on uniforms, and red “4-ALS” wristbands will be available to be worn in-game. (T...
[photo circa 1927], photo from National Baseball Hall of Fame Library via Getty Images viagettyimages.com. Wilcy Moore [colorized photo circa 1929], colorized photo unattributed atpinterest.com. Bob Meusel [photo circa 1927], unattributed atespn.com. Manager, Miller Huggins [photo circa 1924]...
(California Angels) fromsportslogos.net; one (Detroit Tigers) that I drew myself. The jersey-logo for each team is sized to reflect that team’s 1969 average attendance: the larger the jersey-logo, the higher the attendance that year. Any other team logos on the team’s uniforms in ...
Most recently the Orioles had Buck Showalter before hiring Brandon Hyde as their new manager. Buck was the Texas Rangers Coach from 2003 to 2006. Took some time off to work at ESPN, then hired by the Orioles. When I was a little kid, Johnny Oates was the Orioles manager, he would even...
While logos can have a great impact and be a strong influence in expressing a team’s message and identity, logos in themselves are meaningless without strong teams behind them. If the Marlins want to portray a message of ‘watch out’ with their new yellow-and-fishless logo, and if the...
The Season mode lets you become the general manager of an existing team or an expansion club, and you can customize basically every detail about it, from the roster to the division to the uniforms and logos to team name, before even having a single day pass. You get 10 years to take ...
It was an ESPN producer calling from Bristol, Conn., with the power to make the Mariners’ event go as viral as things could back in 1998. That night, the network opened “SportsCenter” with a segment highlighting Seattle’s “Turn Ahead the Clock” night. A group of MLB marketers in...