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Popular MiLB jersey takes center stage in All Elite Wrestling ring

@JesseABorek
December 3, 2025

Getting ready to talk trash to your opponent before a title fight? Rock a Trash Pandas jersey, naturally. Eddie Kingston has never been one to mince his words. But ahead of his AEW Men’s World Championship match against Samoa Joe next Wednesday night on All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite on TBS

O's knew they had a hit with Bird Bath ... and Joan Jett agrees

December 2, 2025

BALTIMORE -- Camden Yards is filled with unique features and components that set it apart from most ballparks in Major League Baseball. There’s the retro design, the picnic area near Legends Park in left-center field and -- of course -- the B&O Warehouse and Eutaw Street. On May 12, 2023,

This Minor League park is one of the best places to see a game -- anywhere

@BensBiz
November 28, 2025

Benjamin Hill travels the nation collecting stories about what makes Minor League Baseball unique. This excerpt from the Baseball Traveler newsletter, presented by Circle K, is a mere taste of the smorgasbord of delights he offers every week. Read the full newsletter here, and subscribe to his newsletter here.

A player was traded for turkey ... then retired

That's one way to get out of grocery shopping
November 27, 2025

As you sit down to your Thanksgiving turkey this year and are about to carve that sucker up, just remember this: You could have dealt a professional ballplayer in exchange for your feast. At least, you could have if this was 1931 and your baseball team was owned by Joe

In casing you missed it, here's how the Brewers cooked up the Sausage Race

November 26, 2025

Not only was former Brewers reliever Mike Fetters in the house, he was in the game during the sixth inning at County Stadium on June 27, 1993, when, to everyone’s surprise, the left-field gate swung open and baseball’s original mascot race came to life. Three decades after Milwaukee’s in-game Sausage

Here's every new Minor League alternate identity announced for 2026 so far

@BensBiz
November 23, 2025

Be yourself, unless you feel like being something else. This is now an established Minor League Baseball promotional strategy, as teams across the country regularly assume alternate identities in lieu of their day-to-day primary identities. These alternate identities often have a local connection, with teams celebrating their region's culinary specialties,

A 19-letter team name? This Yankees affiliate fit it on a jersey 

@BensBiz
November 21, 2025

What has 19 letters, seven syllables and is covered in pinstripes? The Somerset Patriots have the answer to this heretofore unasked question, as this week the Double-A New York Yankees affiliate announced its Semiquincentennials alternate identity. This gargantuan word simply means "250th anniversary," which America will celebrate in 2026. The

Knicks star Towns pulls holy grail Yamamoto card -- and auctions it for $72K

@SportsAngle
November 21, 2025

Karl-Anthony Towns has racked up achievements during his decorated basketball career: He was the No. 1 overall Draft pick in 2015, he won Rookie of the Year, he’s been All-NBA three times and is in the conversation as one of the best-shooting big men of all time. But all that

Lindor, Young Miko chat all things Puerto Rico -- and coffee -- on latest 'Café Con Lindor'

November 21, 2025

NEW YORK -- "Café Con Lindor," Francisco Lindor's lifestyle show that features conversations with celebrities over a cup of coffee, released its fourth episode on Friday, in which Lindor is joined by the Puerto Rican rapper Young Miko. In the episode, the two discuss their upbringings in Puerto Rico --

This MiLB team threw a promo night about a reporter who covers Minor League promo nights

@BensBiz
November 21, 2025

Benjamin Hill travels the nation collecting stories about what makes Minor League Baseball unique. This excerpt from the Baseball Traveler newsletter, presented by Circle K, is a mere taste of the smorgasbord of delights he offers every week. Read the full newsletter here, and subscribe to his newsletter here. In

Is that a Gold Glove on the roof? Yeah, and it's 30 feet tall

@Spokes_Murphy
November 20, 2025

If you are ever in St. Louis, stop by Rawlings Sporting Goods headquarters, which has an immersive baseball experience open to the public that includes a showcase room of all of the company’s Gold Glove Award winners, dating back to the award’s creation in 1957. And if you’re wondering how

Want to own some of John Oliver's Moon Mammoths gear? Here's your chance

November 19, 2025

Now is your chance to own a little bit of Erie Moon Mammoths history. The Minor League alternate identity heard 'round the world -- the Erie Moon Mammoths -- immediately became a household name after HBO's "Last Week Tonight" host John Oliver and his team cooked up the idea, temporarily

Rare piece of memorabilia sells for $363K: 'This isn’t Berra’s jersey. He wears No. 8.'

Uniform pulled from a box at a Bronx Boys' Club in 1959
November 18, 2025

“I haven’t seen this in like 60 years.” Tears began to well up in Yogi Berra’s eyes. “This is what we used to wear in a doubleheader when it was 90 degrees in July. Feel that.” What the 84-year-old Berra was holding in his hands and showing to those gathered

This MiLB team marked its city's bicentennial with (among other things) a bobblehead of a local poet

@BensBiz
November 14, 2025

Benjamin Hill travels the nation collecting stories about what makes Minor League Baseball unique. This excerpt from the Baseball Traveler newsletter, presented by Circle K, is a mere taste of the smorgasbord of delights he offers every week. Read the full newsletter here, and subscribe to his newsletter here. Akron,

The 7 best moments from the MLB Open and MLB Awards in Las Vegas

November 14, 2025

There's a lot going on in Las Vegas for MLB Awards Week. In addition to the annual GM Meetings, Thursday night saw the third annual MLB Awards presented by MGM Rewards take place at The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, co-hosted by Dodgers superstar Mookie Betts and comedian

It's all about the MVPs. We're talking about the Most Valuable Pets

November 13, 2025

It was a night for the MVPs. We mean, of course, the Most Valuable Pets. Newly minted four-time MVP Shohei Ohtani has not only set a precedent for baseball greatness, but he's also raised the bar for turning a pet into a global superstar. His pup Decoy, for the third

The hilarious tales of 'Murph'

November 11, 2025

This story originally ran in November 2024 when Pat Murphy became the first Brewers skipper to win a BBWAA Manager of the Year Award. It has been edited to reflect Murphy winning the honor again in 2025.

The Single-A Salem Red Sox are changing their name to ... the Salem RidgeYaks!

@BensBiz
November 9, 2025

Picture, if you will, a domesticated bovine species native to the Himalayas that has discovered the game of baseball, developed the ability to travel via paddle-powered watercraft and can now be found in and around the mountains of Virginia. You have pictured the newest team identity on the Minor League

Record-breaking autographed baseball picks up another award -- a Clio

@JoshJacksonMiLB
November 7, 2025

The World's Most Autographed Baseball attracted a lot of attention this summer. This fall, it's attracted a little bit more -- and some hardware to go with it. The annual advertising awards known as The Clios have recognized Minor League Baseball's head-turning promotion with a 2025 Bronze Award in the

This MiLB team's Moby Dick sando includes 16 fish patties -- and a fan tried to eat the whole thing

@BensBiz
November 7, 2025

Benjamin Hill travels the nation collecting stories about what makes Minor League Baseball unique. This excerpt from the Baseball Traveler newsletter, presented by Circle K, is a mere taste of the smorgasbord of delights he offers every week. Read the full newsletter here, and subscribe to his newsletter here. If

These 10 Minor League jerseys were popular in 2025

@Kelsie_Heneghan
November 6, 2025

Minor League designs can get pretty grandiose. But they also can bring people closer together. From out-of-the-world identities to classic home looks, teams celebrate their local culture one kit at a time.

  • Shop the MiLB Store's National Jersey Day sale For the third straight year, MLB.com celebrates National Jersey

This Cubs prospect wanted to be a cowboy but settled for being a bull-owning ballplayer

@BensBiz
November 6, 2025

Benjamin Hill travels the nation collecting stories about what makes Minor League Baseball unique. This excerpt from the Baseball Traveler newsletter, presented by Circle K, is a mere taste of the smorgasbord of delights he offers every week. Read the full newsletter here, and subscribe to his newsletter here.

Murakami-themed WS gear to celebrate Dodgers title goes on sale Friday

November 5, 2025

Following the Los Angeles Dodgers historic back-to-back World Series titles, Fanatics, Complex and MLB are commemorating the moment with a special edition Los Angeles Dodgers x Takashi Murakami World Series Championship collection, set to go on-sale this Friday, November 7 at Complex.com, the Complex app, Fanatics and MLBShop online stores

Freddie Freeman doing the worm is all you can imagine and more

November 5, 2025

Freddie Freeman is living proof that one man really can have it all. He's a back-to-back World Series champ with three rings to his name. He's a former Fall Classic and regular-season MVP. He has hit two of the most iconic postseason walk-off home runs in Dodger history, if not

How nasty is Yamamoto? Sasaki wanted to know -- and found out

@sonjamchen
November 3, 2025

LOS ANGELES -- Perhaps Roki Sasaki had to see what all the fuss was about. Yoshinobu Yamamoto is coming off a sophomore season in the Majors that saw him finish as a finalist in National League Cy Young Award voting for the first time -- and an even better postseason