Father's Day uniforms

On Tuesday, MLB revealed their uniforms for the All-Star Workout Day, Home Run Derby, and all of the holidays throughout the year that the teams wear special uniforms for (Memorial Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Fourth of July).

Baseball traditionalists will no doubt be angry, as they usually are, but the uniforms are different, and some of them look incredible. They also make use of themed socks from Stance, MLB’s first-ever sock sponsor.

Here are the Home Run Derby and All-Star Workout Day uniforms, which include teal and orange jerseys (hello, Miami!) and orange logos on textured black caps. The underside of the caps’ bills and the socks are also very “Miami” in nature.

The caps for the All-Star Game itself are similar to last year’s, with a gold logo and gold star on patterned, colored caps. The All-Star Game socks are still Miami themed, but not as over the top as the Workout Day socks.

For Mother’s Day, teams will be going back to pink logos, numbers, and bills on their jerseys and caps, though the caps will be gray and patterned. Pink socks, in two different styles, are also featured.

For Father’s Day, light blue replaces the pink, and the colors are inverted on the caps. These uniforms look great.

Memorial Day is Camo Day. The socks and bills of the caps are camo, while the caps and names/numbers on the jerseys are green.

The Fourth of July features the stars and stripes plastered on everything, along with red and blue caps with the bill in the opposite color.

Is this about marketing and trying to sell shit to people? Of course it is! That’s the whole damn point of alternate uniforms! If you’re not a fan of them, that’s alright – you don’t have to buy them, and you only have to see them during games once a year.

The one thing you can definitely say about these alternate uniforms is that they’re not boring. The worst thing that a “special” uniform can be is boring. By mixing in new designs and colors, MLB is keeping that pipeline open and the cash flowing.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to wait for the All-Star rosters to be announced so I can buy a teal Mike Trout t-shirt.

[Yahoo Sports]

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