2014 MLB Changes (logo, uniform wise, etc)

[Bmac]

The full D Backs look that'll be worn on August 30th vs Colorado. I may have to splurge for an authentic of that jersey.

And it appears they correctly made the Diamondbacks cap cream, rather than regular white. Nice catch if that's the case.

It's not cream, it's white. I picked one up a few days ago at Hat Club. It's also not technically the right logo, either. When the D Backs first announced all of their branding information, they were supposed to wear white caps as their primary home caps, and the first ones released had that huge A logo. Some time along the line they switched to the purple caps as their primary caps, and the white hats they did wear on the field quite sparingly, had the regular smaller A logo.

EDIT: Looking at it closely, that cap that's hung up may have the proper sized A logo. If that's the case, you can chalk that up as another D Backs on field authentic that Hat Club got wrong.

Mine is definitely cream:

You know, after looking at it closer and comparing it to my other white New Era poly 59Fifty (Seattle Mariners 2013 throwback, 1909 Seattle Turks), it is in fact cream. It's a VERY subtle cream, though. If not for comparing the two side by side, I would've never noticed that. It's MUCH closer to regular white than to the Giants cream, for example.

Yeah, I wasn't really sure until I compared my hats side by side. I was kind of disappointed when it arrived in the mail this week because it looked like regular white. But I had a hunch it was barely off-white, so I did some comparing and sure enough, it is a tad darker.

Also, here is this regarding the jerseys:

White vs. Cream

"Were the home "whites" actually white? It is hard to tell from most pictures, but from the beginning the Diamondbacks used a slightly off white, cream color. This was often used back in the flannel uniform days, prior to the 1970's, but they were the first to bring back the old tradition. The Giants would follow a few years later, using much more of a yellowish tint. I have a few authentic jerseys, and it seems like the cream became closer to white once Majestic took over in 2003, but the early jerseys definately were not white when compared to other teams' jerseys of the time. With the change in 2007, cream was no longer used, as standard white took over."

That is from the Arizona Diamondbacks Uniform History site, which I'm pretty sure is run by one of members here.

[CubsFanBudMan]

Interesting. Makes sense now that I see it, but I can't say I used to think of it as cream back in the day.

[TheOldRoman]

I remember seeing the Diamondbacks jerseys for the first time in a sports store circa 1998. I was floored when I saw that they were actually cream instead of white.

It's a shame that New Era can't reproduce cream caps now that they finally have the ability to make white caps. I mentioned it before, but in 2001 the White Sox wore 1917 World Series throwbacks, and NE paired cream-colored caps with their white jerseys, as they couldn't dye the wool white at that time. In 2006, the White Sox wore cream-colored 1906 throwback jerseys, but NE paired them with white caps. I wish a team would coordinate these things between New Era and Majestic to get the hats matching the jerseys.

Also, it's astounding to think that my cap from 2001 is now 13 years old, and we are 4 years away from the 100th anniversary of the Sox' 1917 championship. I hope they wear those throwbacks again (in white instead of cream), and pair them with white hats. Hell, I'd settle for New Era re-releasing those caps, as mine is plenty beaten up at this point.

[Gothamite]

I'm fairly confident you'll be able to replace it then.

[leroy712]

The full D Backs look that'll be worn on August 30th vs Colorado. I may have to splurge for an authentic of that jersey.

And it appears they correctly made the Diamondbacks cap cream, rather than regular white. Nice catch if that's the case.

It's not cream, it's white. I picked one up a few days ago at Hat Club. It's also not technically the right logo, either. When the D Backs first announced all of their branding information, they were supposed to wear white caps as their primary home caps, and the first ones released had that huge A logo. Some time along the line they switched to the purple caps as their primary caps, and the white hats they did wear on the field quite sparingly, had the regular smaller A logo.

EDIT: Looking at it closely, that cap that's hung up may have the proper sized A logo. If that's the case, you can chalk that up as another D Backs on field authentic that Hat Club got wrong.

That sir would be an incorrect statement. It would be New Era and their TBTC line that got the hat wrong again. Not Hat Club. That same hat will be on sale at MLB shop, Lids etc.....The teams can make the choice to wear the retail version of the TBTC caps or their own team supplied version. Perfect example was what the Astros did 2 years ago and the Diamondbacks did 3 years ago.

And if you think Hat Club has messed things up you must have never stepped foot in a Lids. That place is a joke! From the purchasing department all the way down to the store employees. Next time an employee at Lids asks me to embroider something on my hat or tells me that they don't make certain hats in USA made while I'm wearing said hat in USA made I swear I will throat punch them!

[Bmac]

The full D Backs look that'll be worn on August 30th vs Colorado. I may have to splurge for an authentic of that jersey.

And it appears they correctly made the Diamondbacks cap cream, rather than regular white. Nice catch if that's the case.

It's not cream, it's white. I picked one up a few days ago at Hat Club. It's also not technically the right logo, either. When the D Backs first announced all of their branding information, they were supposed to wear white caps as their primary home caps, and the first ones released had that huge A logo. Some time along the line they switched to the purple caps as their primary caps, and the white hats they did wear on the field quite sparingly, had the regular smaller A logo.

EDIT: Looking at it closely, that cap that's hung up may have the proper sized A logo. If that's the case, you can chalk that up as another D Backs on field authentic that Hat Club got wrong.

That sir would be an incorrect statement. It would be New Era and their TBTC line that got the hat wrong again. Not Hat Club. That same hat will be on sale at MLB shop, Lids etc.....The teams can make the choice to wear the retail version of the TBTC caps or their own team supplied version. Perfect example was what the Astros did 2 years ago and the Diamondbacks did 3 years ago.

Which caps are you referring to for the Astros and Diamondbacks?

[leroy712]

The full D Backs look that'll be worn on August 30th vs Colorado. I may have to splurge for an authentic of that jersey.

And it appears they correctly made the Diamondbacks cap cream, rather than regular white. Nice catch if that's the case.

It's not cream, it's white. I picked one up a few days ago at Hat Club. It's also not technically the right logo, either. When the D Backs first announced all of their branding information, they were supposed to wear white caps as their primary home caps, and the first ones released had that huge A logo. Some time along the line they switched to the purple caps as their primary caps, and the white hats they did wear on the field quite sparingly, had the regular smaller A logo.

EDIT: Looking at it closely, that cap that's hung up may have the proper sized A logo. If that's the case, you can chalk that up as another D Backs on field authentic that Hat Club got wrong.

That sir would be an incorrect statement. It would be New Era and their TBTC line that got the hat wrong again. Not Hat Club. That same hat will be on sale at MLB shop, Lids etc.....The teams can make the choice to wear the retail version of the TBTC caps or their own team supplied version. Perfect example was what the Astros did 2 years ago and the Diamondbacks did 3 years ago.

Which caps are you referring to for the Astros and Diamondbacks?

When the Astros did the TBTC uniforms for their 50th anniversary season they wore team issue only caps and not the retail TBTC caps. For example the Colt .45's cap they wore on the field was a wool cap with a green underbrim and no batterman on the back. Not to mention the ".45's" logo was correct sized. The Colt .45's cap that New Era put out for retail was performance poly with a batterman, black underbrim and huge oversized ".45's" logo. They also wore the 80's "H star cap" in wool with no batterman and correct gray underbrim while retail version was poly with batterman and black undervisor. The oddity of the the set was the late 90's gold shoot star cap. The ones the team wore on the field were wool with a flat batterman but had a black underbrim and white sweatband. So New Era butchered the underbrim on the team issues as well. Retail was the same as previous one. 100% performance poly with raised batterman, black sweatband and underbrim.

The Dbacks 3 years ago was a strange deal as well. The team wore accurate remakes of the purple home cap. Correct sized "A", flat batterman, white sweatband and gray underbrim. There were a lot of people saying they just wore "old stock" caps. However they weren't old stock caps as the team issued caps for that game had current (2011) New Era tagging. There were 2 versions of hats made for retail. One version was sold only at Chase field. It had the big "A" with incorrect colored snake tongue (teal instead of the correct black) and was 100% poly. It had a raised batterman and a gray underbrim. The second was released later and in line with the traditional TBTC retail series of caps with the correct sized "A", raised batterman, black sweatband and black underbrim.

In the past when teams did TBTC days they typically wore the same "Cooperstown Collection" caps that were availible to retailers such as Distant Replays etc...Now New Era has the TBTC program for retailers which doesn't guarantee the hat your team is wearing on the field is the same as you are buying now. Sucks but, it is how it is now.

[FiddySicks]

The full D Backs look that'll be worn on August 30th vs Colorado. I may have to splurge for an authentic of that jersey.

And it appears they correctly made the Diamondbacks cap cream, rather than regular white. Nice catch if that's the case.

It's not cream, it's white. I picked one up a few days ago at Hat Club. It's also not technically the right logo, either. When the D Backs first announced all of their branding information, they were supposed to wear white caps as their primary home caps, and the first ones released had that huge A logo. Some time along the line they switched to the purple caps as their primary caps, and the white hats they did wear on the field quite sparingly, had the regular smaller A logo.

EDIT: Looking at it closely, that cap that's hung up may have the proper sized A logo. If that's the case, you can chalk that up as another D Backs on field authentic that Hat Club got wrong.

That sir would be an incorrect statement. It would be New Era and their TBTC line that got the hat wrong again. Not Hat Club. That same hat will be on sale at MLB shop, Lids etc.....The teams can make the choice to wear the retail version of the TBTC caps or their own team supplied version. Perfect example was what the Astros did 2 years ago and the Diamondbacks did 3 years ago.

And if you think Hat Club has messed things up you must have never stepped foot in a Lids. That place is a joke! From the purchasing department all the way down to the store employees. Next time an employee at Lids asks me to embroider something on my hat or tells me that they don't make certain hats in USA made while I'm wearing said hat in USA made I swear I will throat punch them!

I worked at Lids (on and off) for six years. Trust me, I know how much of a total disaster that company is. I absolutely love Hat Club. It's the polar opposite of Lids, and pretty much everything that a store that specializes in selling hats should be. But one thing that they tend to mess up a bit occasionally is rushing to get stock of a product (On Fields) before it's confirmed to be accurate. While that definitely is a New Era problem, it's a bit of an issue on their part as well because they pride themselves on selling the most accurate on fields they can. New Era screwed up their first run of the Sydney Series caps by putting the patch on the wrong side, and by the time they caught it and fixed it, it was pretty much too late. They jumped the gun a little bit because they wanted to be the first to have the product. I think that could also be the case here. That happens more than you'd think with Diamondbacks hats because the company is based in Mesa, Arizona.

This one can definitely be put on the shoulders of the vendor (New Era), but they as well need to do a tighter job guaranteeing they're getting the right product from their vendor.

That's a pretty minor nitpick though in comparison to the dumpster fire that is Lids. Hat Club absolutely OWNS them.

[leroy712]

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[leroy712]

The full D Backs look that'll be worn on August 30th vs Colorado. I may have to splurge for an authentic of that jersey.

And it appears they correctly made the Diamondbacks cap cream, rather than regular white. Nice catch if that's the case.

It's not cream, it's white. I picked one up a few days ago at Hat Club. It's also not technically the right logo, either. When the D Backs first announced all of their branding information, they were supposed to wear white caps as their primary home caps, and the first ones released had that huge A logo. Some time along the line they switched to the purple caps as their primary caps, and the white hats they did wear on the field quite sparingly, had the regular smaller A logo.

EDIT: Looking at it closely, that cap that's hung up may have the proper sized A logo. If that's the case, you can chalk that up as another D Backs on field authentic that Hat Club got wrong.

That sir would be an incorrect statement. It would be New Era and their TBTC line that got the hat wrong again. Not Hat Club. That same hat will be on sale at MLB shop, Lids etc.....The teams can make the choice to wear the retail version of the TBTC caps or their own team supplied version. Perfect example was what the Astros did 2 years ago and the Diamondbacks did 3 years ago.

And if you think Hat Club has messed things up you must have never stepped foot in a Lids. That place is a joke! From the purchasing department all the way down to the store employees. Next time an employee at Lids asks me to embroider something on my hat or tells me that they don't make certain hats in USA made while I'm wearing said hat in USA made I swear I will throat punch them!

I worked at Lids (on and off) for six years. Trust me, I know how much of a total disaster that company is. I absolutely love Hat Club. It's the polar opposite of Lids, and pretty much everything that a store that specializes in selling hats should be. But one thing that they tend to mess up a bit occasionally is rushing to get stock of a product (On Fields) before it's confirmed to be accurate. While that definitely is a New Era problem, it's a bit of an issue on their part as well because they pride themselves on selling the most accurate on fields they can. New Era screwed up their first run of the Sydney Series caps by putting the patch on the wrong side, and by the time they caught it and fixed it, it was pretty much too late. They jumped the gun a little bit because they wanted to be the first to have the product. I think that could also be the case here. That happens more than you'd think with Diamondbacks hats because the company is based in Mesa, Arizona.

This one can definitely be put on the shoulders of the vendor (New Era), but they as well need to do a tighter job guaranteeing they're getting the right product from their vendor.

That's a pretty minor nitpick though in comparison to the dumpster fire that is Lids. Hat Club absolutely OWNS them.

The Sydney patches had nothing to do with Hat Club. It was what New Era supplied them with. New Era pretty much gave them 2 options as I have heard. Either sell them and deal with it or send them back and not get the corrected version until around now. They obviuosly decided to sell them instead of dealing with the nightmare of sending them back to Derby. At least they were able to get the Saturday alt. with the correct sided patch out of it!

As far as guaranteeing theyr'e getting the right product from their vendor? I guess I don't understand the context of that. If you are talking about the Diamondbacks TBTC there is no right or wrong product. New offers them the 2014 AZ Diamondbacks TBTC cap to buy. They say yes or no and thats it. They can't control the fact that New Era's proofing department or lack there of can't get logos, colors and sizing right. Or the fact that some teams decide to do their own run of hats and not go along with the retail TBTC caps. The funny thing is these hats are the exact same (exept the wool/poly and underbrim/sweatband thing) as the original retail caps made by New Era. So they aren't that far off in the grand scheme of things.

And yes Lids is a dumpster fire of epic size! As a hat collector it pains me to walk into a Lids. I remember one time walking into a Lids and asking about the new Marlins caps before they came out a couple of years ago. The guy working there proceeded to get in an argument with me whether or not the Marlins were changing hats and uniforms. He kept saying they aren't changing caps and there is no new cap scheduled to come out and so on. It blew my damn mind that someone that was so wrong could think they were that right! On the flip side Hat Club is the complete opposite of Lids. They get it and they seem to care which is a huge plus in my mind! Plus some of the guys I know that work there are great dudes!

[Delicate Genius]

Blue Jays are wearing red hats tonight for National Day of Honour.

https://twitter.com/BlueJays/status/464853124214439936

[dsaline97]

Rockies wearing black vests in Cincinnati. What a shame, if they want to wear a vest, this is their best by far:

[Bmac]

The White Sox are apparently going to wear pink hats in honor of Mothers Day. I'd post a picture but I'm in phone.

[Anubis2051]

From MLB's instagram, the White Sox pink hats

Please don't let this become a thing like in the NFL...

[Soarindude]

From MLB's instagram, the White Sox pink hats

Please don't let this become a thing like in the NFL...

NFL will never do that. A pink uniform is 1/16th of the season, versus baseball where it is 1/162. I don't mind a few teams doing this kinda thing once a year for baseball.

I really wish the Rockies would own purple and move away from black. So many teams in the league use black as a primary or secondary color, the Rockies could really own purple in the MLB.

[cappital92]

Is that pink White Sox hat the Diamond Era material? The logo looks like it would on a regular hat, but the hat seems shiny to me.

[tubby34]

Is that pink White Sox hat the Diamond Era material? The logo looks like it would on a regular hat, but the hat seems shiny to me.

Hat is made of 100% cotton- not the DE caps or tech polyester

[Anubis2051]

Is that pink White Sox hat the Diamond Era material? The logo looks like it would on a regular hat, but the hat seems shiny to me.

Hat is made of 100% cotton- not the DE caps or tech polyester

Cotton?

[Delicate Genius]

"Oh my god, Mattingly just split his pants!"

[phutmasterflex]

The sweat though...