Minor League teams are known for completely out-there, strange, wacky promotions. There is a whole genre of promotions that recently have gone to a new extreme and that would be the promotional jersey. The most basic form of this promotion has been in the majors for years and that would be “Turn Back the Clock Night.
Searching the net I found a few examples of crazy Minor League Jerseys:
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The link above takes you to a picture of a Star Wars Jersey from the West Michigan Whitecaps for their Star Wars night. As you can see there is a storm trooper on the front of the jersey. I found the link to the picture on uniwatch.com.
The idea of uniforms like this is really just goofy, but when you go to a lot of Minor League games, you understand the charm of these types of gimmicks.
Have you ever been to a Minor League game thats a tribute for a player? Most of the time its for a player that used to play for the team and they give out bobbleheads of that player in the Minor League team's uniforms. Well the Lowell Spinners decided to take this idea to another level when they named their team after Mike Lowell from their parent team for one night. I found this picture on ESPN.com of Keith Foulke in a rehab assignment wearing the jersey:
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Its a little hard to read but above Lowell it says Mike and and they changed the font of their jerseys to look more the like the Red Sox front. It is an interesting idea.
I have some more of these that I will post at a later time. If you see at a game or online a crazy Minor League Jersey and would like to be featured in this article, please let me know: eteich@umd.edu
Some of the ones I will be writing about later are the Aquasox and the Fresno Grizzles.
