MLB scraps All-Star Game uniforms; players will once again wear team uniforms
LA TimesThe jerseys that players like Shohei Ohtani wore at this year’s MLB All-Star Game will be a thing of the past after the league announced it will return to players wearing their team uniforms. In 2025, assuming Shohei Ohtani makes the All-Star Game, he will wear a Dodgers jersey — not the navy blue National League jersey with light blue sleeves he wore this year, and not the dark blue jerseys with floral trim and letters running up and down rather than right to left that he wore in 2021, as an American League All-Star. “To wear a Dodger uniform on the field for an All-Star game, it’s something to be proud of.” When MLB signed a billion-dollar contract with Nike in 2019, the league did more than cash in. “We put our trust in our partner and work collaboratively with them to come up with these designs that, fortunately, have resonated with our fan base.” While MLB reported merchandising success — in 2021, those new All-Star uniforms were “essentially sold out,” a league official said then — the league now has acknowleged the annual wave of criticism from fans and players.
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