Major League Baseball today announced details of league-wide efforts during games on Father’s Day 2021, Sunday, June 20th, to raise awareness about prostate cancer as well as supporting both the Prostate Cancer Foundation and Stand Up To Cancer in their pursuit to fight the disease. 

During Father’s Day games, players and on-field personnel will wear the symbolic blue ribbon on their uniforms along with blue wristbands. Also, players will wear specially-designed New Era caps to raise awareness and funds for the fight against prostate cancer. The caps will feature blue Club logos along with the symbolic MLB blue ribbon. Players also have the option to wear Stance multi-pattern blue-dyed socks. MLB will again donate 100% of its royalties from the sales of specialty caps and apparel emblazoned with the symbolic blue ribbon to the Prostate Cancer Foundation and Stand Up To Cancer.  

Commemorative base jewels and dugout lineup cards also will be blue. In addition, the following game equipment can be used for prostate cancer awareness throughout Father’s Day Weekend: light blue compression sleeves, light blue batting gloves, light blue wrist/elbow/leg guards and catcher’s equipment. Players and all on-field personnel have worn blue ribbons and sported blue wristbands on Father’s Day since MLB first partnered with the Prostate Cancer Foundation in 1996. 

This effort also includes the annual Prostate Cancer Foundation “Home Run Challenge” (www.homerunchallenge.org), which has given fans the chance to make a one-time monetary donation or pledge for every home run hit by their favorite MLB Clubs during the time period of Tuesday, June 1st through Father’s Day, Sunday, June 20th, all the while tracking where their team stacks up in a “Team vs. Team” competition. Every dollar donated through the Home Run Challenge goes to PCF to fund critical research to defeat prostate cancer. Since inception, the Home Run Challenge has raised more than $50 million for PCF, the world’s leading philanthropic organization funding and accelerating prostate cancer research.  

Founded in 1993, Prostate Cancer Foundation has raised more than $865 million for cutting-edge research led by more than 2,200 research projects at 220 leading cancer centers in 22 countries around the world. Because of PCF’s commitment to ending death and suffering from prostate cancer, the death rate is down by over 50% and countless men are alive today as a result. PCF research now impacts more than 70 forms of human cancer by focusing on immunotherapy, the microbiome, and food as medicine. Learn more at pcf.org.

Stand Up To Cancer® (SU2C) raises funds to accelerate the pace of research to get new therapies to patients quickly and save lives now. SU2C, a division of the Entertainment Industry Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, was established in 2008 by media and entertainment leaders who utilize these communities’ resources to engage the public in supporting a new, collaborative model of cancer research, to increase awareness about cancer prevention, and to highlight progress being made in the fight against the disease. As of January 2021, more than 1,950 scientists representing more than 210 institutions are involved in SU2C-funded research projects.