Wednesday, May 05, 2004
The Bases Will Be Decorated on Mother's Day, Too
This MLB press release indicates that Spider-Man 2 promotional dollars aren't the only excuse for violating MLB's rules that the bases must be white.
This Sunday, Mother's Day, MLB and a breast-cancer awareness foundation called The Big Bam! Foundation will add pink accents to the normal greens, tans and whites of the diamond. From the release:
"As part of the Mother's Day activities created to raise awareness for this important cause, Clubs will display a special Mother's Day logo incorporating a pink MLB silhouetted batter logo over a pink ribbon. Players will be wearing a decal of the Mother's Day logo on their helmets. The special logo will also be painted on the field of play and be displayed on commemorative home plates and pitching rubbers. In addition, the bases used during each game that day will feature the pink MLB Mother's Day logo and pink line-up cards bearing the Mother's Day logo will be used in each dugout.
One commemorative home plate per team will be autographed by all members of that team as part of the Mother's Day program. Each of the 30 team-autographed commemorative home plates will be auctioned off with proceeds going to Big Bam!"
The "commemorative home plates and pitching rubbers" won't be used during the actual game. The bases will. I'd love to mike the umps during the pregame exchange of pink line-up cards...
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This MLB press release indicates that Spider-Man 2 promotional dollars aren't the only excuse for violating MLB's rules that the bases must be white.
This Sunday, Mother's Day, MLB and a breast-cancer awareness foundation called The Big Bam! Foundation will add pink accents to the normal greens, tans and whites of the diamond. From the release:
"As part of the Mother's Day activities created to raise awareness for this important cause, Clubs will display a special Mother's Day logo incorporating a pink MLB silhouetted batter logo over a pink ribbon. Players will be wearing a decal of the Mother's Day logo on their helmets. The special logo will also be painted on the field of play and be displayed on commemorative home plates and pitching rubbers. In addition, the bases used during each game that day will feature the pink MLB Mother's Day logo and pink line-up cards bearing the Mother's Day logo will be used in each dugout.
One commemorative home plate per team will be autographed by all members of that team as part of the Mother's Day program. Each of the 30 team-autographed commemorative home plates will be auctioned off with proceeds going to Big Bam!"
The "commemorative home plates and pitching rubbers" won't be used during the actual game. The bases will. I'd love to mike the umps during the pregame exchange of pink line-up cards...
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