(AUDACY) MLB's new All-Star Game uniforms will apparently be back for at least one more season.
The league and uniform designer Nike are already at work on threads for the All-Star Game in 2022, according to Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times.
The American League and National League uniforms worn Tuesday marked the first time in the 91-year history of the Midsummer Classic that players didn't wear their own team's uniforms.
The new pullover-style in-game jerseys are uniform in color and cut, with the only variations 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.
Max Scherzer delivers during the 2021 All-Star Game at Coors Field in ColoradoGetty Images
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 to utilize rule changes that were first implemented in the shortened 2020 season, including seven-inning doubleheaders, automatic baserunners on second base to start extra innings and the three-batter minimum for pitchers.
However, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred said earlier this week that the league is likely to abandon the shortened doubleheaders and ghost runners. MLB might also adopt a ban on infield shifts, a rule which is being tried out in the minor leagues this season.
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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