Make Baseball Cool Again Bleacher Report
The Cavs have those infamous T-shirt jerseys. The NFL and NHL are constantly modernizing—or throwing back—their team logos. Even higher football, that bastion of traditionalism, has introduced some burn new designs this century.
Baseball game? For all of its Iverson-way arm sleeves, its human knee-loftier socks and even the sunglasses, baseball seemingly hasn't wanted to be that cool with on-field fashion. Just a new generation is trying to alter that, says Tzvi Twersky, the baseball category director at Opinion, which recently started its first full season as the official sock of Major League Baseball—on-field genu-highs included.
"The younger guys are getting into it," Twersky says. "There might exist resistance from some of the older guys or the traditional teams, but as teams take played each other and guys in the minors experienced the socks, information technology'southward grown on them. It's a testament to the teams having an open mind and be willing to try something new."
MLB uniforms accept barely changed since the Cincinnati Reds became the first professional baseball team in 1869. The push button-down jerseys, the pants, the caps, the belts (belts!)—all have changed incrementally, simply lilliputian has come close to the evolutions in football and basketball gear. As the official switch to Under Armour as MLB's uniform supplier approaches for the 2019 season, baseball franchises are in position to capitalize on new design trends while as well invoking nostalgia.
Michael Jordan (right) wears the archetype '90s "Black Sox" bailiwick of jersey with pinstripe pants. (AP Images/Getty Images)
Oft, baseball teams swing and miss desperately with new uniforms or reverse form before a wait is in mode: The huge logos of the '90s have, with the exception of Detroit'south new big "D" throwbacks, largely been replaced; the neon yellowish of Kansas City'southward yesteryear is out in favor of the more subdued alternates from Oakland and Pittsburgh; and let's non even talk nigh those shorts the White Sox wore during the beginning game of a doubleheader in '76.
More than then than many other sports, America'southward pastime does have a big grouping of untouchable classics—the Yankees, Dodgers, Giants, Red Sox and Cardinals, only to name a few.
But with the proficient come the bad and unmemorable, and baseball certainly has a few of those.
B/R Mag's effort to Make Baseball Cool Once again has already heat-checked 14 bold ideas to change the game with MLB players, surveyed influencers from Ken Griffey Jr. to Bryce Harper and introduced a swaggy 17-year-old who might redesign what a superstar looks like, single-handedly.
Yet, nosotros couldn't help taking a crack at fashioning a few new unis of our own. Non to option on these five clubs, but our intention was to stay true to history—and add a little oomph.
Miami Marlins, with a Fish on Meridian
Giancarlo Stanton in a redesigned Marlins uniform that embraces blueish accents and brings back the fish. (Brian Konnick for B/R Magazine)
Yes, we know the Marlins updated their logo this flavour afterwards a complete overhaul in 2011 and that the Giancarlo Stanton jerseys are selling only fine—though they aren't exactly an in-the-club fashion statement. But a stylish city like Miami, with 25 years of franchise history in the books, deserves a more than timeless look for the kings of Lilliputian Havana.
Without getting into the whole teal-and-pinstripes belong debacle of the late '90s and early 2000s, we focused on more Marlins bluish while relegating that burnt orange to an emphasis rather than a garish ascendant color. The new wordmark stems from art deco, like the hotels on Southward Beach, and the Thou is a scrap more than upright. We even brought back the old fish mascot because, hey, the Edgar Renteria glory days weren't that long ago.
Texas Rangers: Kickin' It Bush Style
Yu Darvish in a redesigned Rangers uniform that plays with brighter shades of red, white and bluish. (Brian Konnick for B/R Mag)
More than than a dozen MLB teams employ red, white and bluish, and the Rangers are among the most dull of the bunch. While keeping the aforementioned color scheme, we inverse their uniforms just enough to make them different—and added a little Lone Star flair.
Our wordmark ditches the block serif for archetype cursive similar to the script style of the Dodgers, Royals and Yankees, which the Rangers actually used in the '80s and early on '90s—until George Westward. Bush-league gave up ownership. The squad name would now exist red, which hasn't been seen on a Rangers jersey earlier, across a powder blueish jersey (hey, information technology's working as an alternating in KC) with sleeve stripes. And we've added numbers to the front because, every bit another blueish-jersey'd star of the region would say, why not?
San Diego Padres: Brown and Yellow, Brown and Yellowish
Wil Myers in a redesigned Padres uniform that brings back the dark-brown and golden that made them unique in previous decades. (Brian Konnick for B/R Mag)
For years, many Padres fans have clamored for a return to the brown and gilded of the '60s, '70s and '80s, and we've done here what just the occasional alternate does to hike sales.
"You have the Padres, who may not be hesitant to practise things a footling bit crazy, a little fleck different," Stance'due south Twersky says. "With them, we came out of the gate with tie-dyes and different designs that we work closely with them on, only they can only pull off because they are willing to endeavor things and be receiving."
Today's piping remains, but nosotros've ditched the interlocking South and D for the Tony Gwynn-heyday wordmark, which has the all-time of the Cardinals and Braves unis in it. Leave the deadening, old navy behind and keep it distinctive, San Diego.
Chicago White Sox: Merely Add together Cherry—and C.R.E.A.M.
Jose Abreu in a redesigned White Sox uniform with hints of blood-red and cream. (Brian Konnick for B/R Magazine)
The White Sox are not the problem: With a statement logo and a black-and-white simplicity, they've still got the coolest jersey in Chi-town, rocked since an early '90s rebrand by MCs, OGs and MJ himself. But the team's design principles have been erratic, and it's fourth dimension for something consistent for Adventure the Rapper to make truly legendary.
Here, we've emphasized an orangey-red from the '70s and '80s that the team has begun to reintroduce in some alternate looks. (Its sometime navy accent was a niggling too Red Sox.) We've also added a little foam for added vintage-meets-C.R.E.A.M. event.
Arizona Diamondbacks: Unleash the Snake!
Zack Greinke in a redesigned Diamondbacks uniform. (Brian Konnick for B/R Mag)
When the D-backs first unveiled their purple-and-teal look as an expansion squad in 1995, it looked out of place in the conservative color palette of baseball. Flash-forward a couple decades, and we kind of like the all-caps wordmark they unveiled last year. Certainly beats years of an illegible alphabetic character "A" and trying to make a rattlesnake expect like the letter "D."
Still: Something felt...missing. Gone are the gradients, the shoulders, the night gray pants. We've brought back copper to pair with sedona red. For a nod to baseball game's nostalgia, we've taken inspiration from the Cardinals, who incorporate the bat and birds, and decided to get big on the ophidian. The Diamondbacks may be a sartorial travesty correct now, merely that doesn't mean they're also far gone to relieve.
Joon Lee is a staff writer for B/R Mag. Follow him on Twitter: @iamjoonlee
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