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Players Weekend was an annual Major League Baseball (MLB) event held from 2017 to 2019 in which players on all 30 MLB teams wore colorful baseball uniforms based on youth sports designs and sported nicknames on the back of their jerseys during regular season games. The league also relaxed the rules for cleats, batting gloves, wristbands, compression sleeves, catcher's masks, and bats, allowing players to use custom-designed gear. The multi-day event was designed to give players the opportunity to express their personal style, appeal to the youth demographic, and acquaint hometown fans with newer team members.

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  • Players Weekend was an annual Major League Baseball (MLB) event held from 2017 to 2019 in which players on all 30 MLB teams wore colorful baseball uniforms based on youth sports designs and sported nicknames on the back of their jerseys during regular season games. The league also relaxed the rules for cleats, batting gloves, wristbands, compression sleeves, catcher's masks, and bats, allowing players to use custom-designed gear. The multi-day event was designed to give players the opportunity to express their personal style, appeal to the youth demographic, and acquaint hometown fans with newer team members. In a departure from previous seasons, the 2019 event saw monochromatic uniforms and caps. The all-white or all-black apparel was intended to make logos and accessories, which players were allowed to customize, stand out more. Following the COVID-19 pandemic-shortened 2020 season and a change that season in uniform suppliers from Majestic to Nike. (Nike added their logo to all 30 MLB uniforms, also of which instituted a new "City Connect" uniform program). The event did not return for 2021. (en)
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  • Cleveland Indians pitcher Carlos Carrasco wears his team's two-color jersey emblazoned with his nickname "Cookie" during Players Weekend 2017. (en)
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  • Major League Baseball, Major League Baseball Players Association (en)
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  • Annual (en)
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  • Players Weekend (en)
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  • All 30 MLB teams (en)
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  • Major League Baseball ballparks (en)
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  • Players Weekend was an annual Major League Baseball (MLB) event held from 2017 to 2019 in which players on all 30 MLB teams wore colorful baseball uniforms based on youth sports designs and sported nicknames on the back of their jerseys during regular season games. The league also relaxed the rules for cleats, batting gloves, wristbands, compression sleeves, catcher's masks, and bats, allowing players to use custom-designed gear. The multi-day event was designed to give players the opportunity to express their personal style, appeal to the youth demographic, and acquaint hometown fans with newer team members. (en)
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  • Players Weekend (en)
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  • Players Weekend (en)
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