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The protocol for home and road uniforms on the baseball diamond is simple: The home team wears white and the road team wears gray. Or at least that's how it was until 1963 -- 50 years ago this season. That's when Kansas City Athletics owner Charle...

Jackie Robinson is in the air this time of year. Next Monday, April 15, will be the 66th anniversary of Robby's big league debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers, and all MLB uniformed personnel will once again mark the occasion by wearing No. 42. Three day...

Red Sox rookie outfielder Jackie Bradley Jr. had a good MLB debut in yesterday's season opener against the Yankees, walking three times, scoring twice, and making a circus catch to rob Robinson Cano of an extra-base hit. But in a less celebrated d...

Ah, the start of baseball season. Is there anything better? Actually, yeah, there is. Lots of things, in fact. But you can't afford most of them, and most of the others would have nasty effects on your cholesterol level, your liver, or some other ...

This Sunday is St. Patrick's Day. That means at least two things are certain to happen: People all over America will be drinking green beer, and MLB teams all over Florida and Arizona will be marking the holiday by wearing green caps and/or jerseys f...

The Mets will be hosting this season's MLB All-Star Game, which means the BP caps and jerseys worn for the annual Home Run Derby will have a Mets-themed design. The caps and jerseys won't be officially unveiled for at least another month and a half, ...

As the controversy over Native American imagery in sports churns on, there have been two new developments regarding Major League Baseball -- one showing where the sports world may be heading on this issue, and another showing that it hasn't gotten th...

MLB already has game caps, batting practice caps, earflap caps for cold weather, camouflage caps, Stars-and-stripes caps, caps with special patches for the All-Star Game and World Series, caps that the players wear after winning a playoff spot or a p...

Every three or four years, all 30 MLB teams get new batting practice cap designs. The upcoming season is one of those years, so you'll soon see teams unveiling their new BP caps (which will also be worn throughout spring training, natch). But thanks ...

The shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., have provoked an outpouring of sympathy and grief throughout the world -- and that includes the world of sports uniforms. The first uni-related response to the tragedy, at least to ...

You can have your Black Friday, your Small Business Saturday and your Cyber Monday. Everyone knows the holiday shopping season doesn't officially shift into high gear until we hit Uni Watch Wednesday -- our annual round-up of uniform- and logo-relate...

Once the four teams for the American and National League championship series were set, it was clear this year's World Series would be very easy on the eyes. And now that the Giants and Tigers have advanced, we can settle in for what should be a very ...

Feeling thirsty? Maybe a drink of water will do the trick. No, check that -- maybe some Gatorade. Yeah, Gatorade. That's the ticket. If that little sequence has been playing out in your mind lately, it may be because Gatorade has had a higher bran...

The Reds are enjoying a pretty good postseason so far. For some of their players, it's their first taste of the playoffs. For others, it's a return to familiar territory. But for one key component of the Reds, the postseason is old hat -- literally. ...

Uni Watch tackles the epic task of ranking the uniform sets of the NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL from 1-122. (Part 5)

Uni Watch ranks the NFL uniform sets from No. 1 to No. 32.