MLB's new All-Star Game uniforms, which were worn in-game by both teams this week for the first time in the storied history of the Midsummer Classic, will apparently be back for at least one more season.
The league and uniform designer Nike are already at work on threads for next year's installment of the annual exhibition between the National and American Leagues, according to Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times.
The AL and NL uniforms worn in Tuesday night's game marked a first in the game's 91-year history.
The new pullover-style in-game jerseys are uniform in color and cut, with the only variation being each player's cap bearing his team logo, which is also displayed on the left breast over a vertical rendering of his team's three-letter acronym.
Players have traditionally worn their respective team uniforms for the official All-Star Game, creating a rainbow-like mix of colors on both sides, and for at least a couple decades they've worn warmup-style alternate gear emblazoned with league signage for warmups and exhibition activities like the Home Run Derby.
The new look -- and the breaking with nearly a century's worth of sartorial precedent -- were hot topics on social media among baseball observers.
The All-Star uniform experiment comes as MLB continues rule changes first implemented last season, including seven-inning doubleheaders, automatic baserunners on second base to start extra innings, and the three-batter minimum for pitchers.
However, this week MLB commissioner Rob Manfred said the league is likely to abandon the shortened twin bills and ghost runners, and might adopt a ban on infield shifts, a rule which is being tried out this season in the minor leagues.
Meanwhile, Manfred classified the universal designated-hitter as a "non-radical" rule change for the game, suggesting it could be re-adopted for 2022, after it was deployed during the virus-shortened 2020 season and then scrapped in 2021.
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