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Creating MLB 'City' Uniforms — NL Edition

By Phil Hecken, on March 22nd, 2020%

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I’m back again today with the National League edition of the “MLB City Edition Series,” a collaboration of Tom Juettner and friends. If you missed the AL Edition, which sets this up, click here. I’ll use Tom’s introduction from the AL to segue into . . . → Read More: Creating MLB ‘City’ Uniforms — NL Edition

39 comments - (Comments are closed)   Designs, Flag-based imagery, MLB, Theme Uniforms, Uniform Designers

Creating MLB 'City' Uniforms — AL Edition

By Phil Hecken, on March 21st, 2020%

By Phil Hecken, with Tom Juettner Follow @PhilHecken !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=”//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”;fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,”script”,”twitter-wjs”);

With all sports on hiatus due to COVID-19, and after seeing my recent articles about Dave Pinto “creating” Jim Vilk’s uniform designs, reader Tom Juettner recently sent me this:

With sports on lock down, I thought I could over some baseball concepts to help . . . → Read More: Creating MLB ‘City’ Uniforms — AL Edition

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Almost Time for Stars and Stripes Uniforms

By Paul Lukas, on June 29th, 2018%

With Independence Day coming up on the calendar next week, MLB teams will be wearing stars/stripes uniforms on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. With that in mind, my latest ESPN Friday Flashback piece takes a look back at all of the cap and jersey styles that MLB teams have worn for the Fourth of July . . . → Read More: Almost Time for Stars and Stripes Uniforms

49 comments - (Comments are closed)   Flag-based imagery, MLB

Flag on Uniform Prompted Objection Back in 1970

By Paul Lukas, on March 28th, 2018%

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When the ABA’s Los Angeles Stars moved to Utah in 1970 and became the Utah Stars, they wore two flag patches on their shorts — an American flag on the left side (as shown in the photos above) and a Utah flag on the right side (as . . . → Read More: Flag on Uniform Prompted Objection Back in 1970

93 comments - (Comments are closed)   ABA, Flag-based imagery, History, Patches