why are nyy wearing black uniforms?
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So brace yourself... the Yankees will be wearing black uniforms for MLB's Player's weekend. The New York Post is reporting that due to the rules behind the Player's Weekend the home team gets to choose between White or Black uniforms. Now obviously the Dodgers home whites are on that iconic list so they chose white.
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And the Yankees' helmets remain the same conservative shade of blue, so dark it edges up to the border of black. But still, these are the Yankees, impervious to whims, their uniforms a proxy for their blue bloodlines.
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New York Yankees appearance policy. Since 1973, the New York Yankees Major League Baseball (MLB) club has enforced an appearance policy regulating how their players must be presented. It states that players must have their hair cut above the collar of their baseball jersey and no beards are permitted.
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As of 2010, the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox and San Francisco Giants do not display their players' names on their home uniforms (the Giants did adopt the names in the 1970s, but removed them from the home uniform in 2000); the Yankees also do not display them on their road uniforms.
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Once again, they are changing colors. The Marlins on Thursday rolled out new uniform colors and a re-designed“M” logo, one more cosmetic touch in a total franchise makeover as new owners Bruce Sherman and Derek Jeter continue to distance themselves from the past.
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The home team for each game received the first choice of wearing either the all-black or the all-white uniform, the road team was then assigned the opposite option. ... Pitchers on Team White will be wearing a black cap with their uniform to avoid any issues with hitters seeing the ball.
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That's because April 15 marks Jackie Robinson Day, a day in which every Major League Baseball team will honor the first player to break the sport's color barrier after decades of segregation. As part of the celebration, all uniformed personnel in the MLB — players, coaches and umpires — will wear No.
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Most people who wear their caps backwards are TRYING to look cool. Others do it out of necessity if they are doing an activity where the brow of the cap will get in the way. In sports this is most commonly seen in baseball when the catcher is behind the plate and is wearing a mask.
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The Jets unveiled on Thursday evening their new uniforms, helmets and branding for the 2019 season and beyond. Their team colors are "Gotham Green, Spotlight White and Stealth Black." ... In addition to new green and white jerseys and pants, the Jets introduced for the first time in their history black alternate uniforms.
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The monochromatic look carries on to the back of the jersey for each player's number, player nicknames will be single-colour silver. Pitchers on Team White will be wearing a black cap with their uniform to avoid any issues with hitters seeing the ball.
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Some fans compared the jerseys to literal trash, and while harsh, they have a point. That's apparently so the pitchers lids won't be a distraction for the batters. Reds are in all-white players' weekend uniforms. Their pitchers, however, are wearing black caps so batters can see the ball better out of the hand.
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To honor the previous iteration of their team, the Nationals sported powder blue uniforms with tri-color caps during the game. ... The Expos' logo is one of the more iconic logos in baseball history, so the fact that it is front and center on the uniform is really cool.”
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The all-white or all-black apparel was intended to make logos and accessories, which players were allowed to customize, stand out more.
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Here's the simple reason for that: For those asking, during #PlayersWeekend, the pitchers are wearing black hats because the batters were having difficulties seeing the white ball with the white hat.
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That is what baseball unveiled Tuesday as the uniform styles for Players' Weekend from Aug. 23 to 25. For three days, every game in the majors will feature one team wearing all black against another wearing all white. ... (Although it helps to avoid recognition while playing for the worst team in the National League.)
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The Rays will wear a “VJN” patch on their sleeve for the rest of the season to honor their original owner and also wore the Devil Rays throwback uniforms, which wasn't the original plan. Also, the Rays placed a poster in their dugout with “BIV” to show solidarity for a heartbroken member of their organization.
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And MLB didn't like it. “The pitcher (Jon Lester) was supposed to wear a black hat and (position players) were supposed to wear white,” Maddon said. “So they got together and figured (for) uniformity we'd all wear the same hat. A solidarity kind of a move.”