{"id":673896,"date":"2026-05-16T03:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T03:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/673896\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T03:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T03:05:09","slug":"green-caps-camo-socks-across-mlb-for-armed-forces-day-weekend-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/673896\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Caps, Camo Socks Across MLB for Armed Forces Day Weekend 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Major League Baseball players are wearing olive green, Armed Forces-inspired caps and socks for all games played the weekend of May 15-17, 2026.<\/p>\n

The caps are being worn in recognition of Armed Forces Day, which in the United States is on the third Saturday each May. The holiday was established by President Harry Truman and first celebrated in 1950, as a way for citizens to thank active military members for their service.<\/p>\n

SHOP: 2026 Armed Forces Day caps for all 30 teams are available now<\/a><\/p>\n

This year\u2019s cap design features olive green over the entire cap \u2014 crown, visor, and button. Each team\u2019s usual cap logo is featured on the crown, recoloured in lighter green, darker green, and white. On the right side of the 29 U.S. teams is the American flag, positioned with the stars up front to give the effect of the flag flying as the wearer charges forward; the Toronto Blue Jays are wearing the Canadian flag in this spot.<\/p>\n

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On the visor, near the crown, is the team\u2019s name written out in dark green lettering. Inside the cap, the inner crown is a military-style camouflage pattern. The under visor is black with six stars for six branches of the military on U.S. team caps; the Blue Jays have three maple leaves in this spot.<\/p>\n

In addition to the cap and camouflage socks, each player will wear a special \u201cArmed Forces Day\u201d patch on the front of their jersey during games played on Saturday, May 16, only. This patch features the MLB logo placed inside a red circle with \u201cARMED FORCES DAY\u201d and the date \u201cMAY 16, 2026\u201d written within it.<\/p>\n

SHOP: 2026 Armed Forces Day caps for all 30 teams are available now<\/a><\/p>\n

Major League Baseball says that \u201c100% of the licensed royalties from the sale of Armed Forces Day On-Field Authentic Collection apparel is donated to MLB Charities to support military programs.\u201d This year, the programs that will benefit from this initiative are\u00a0Blue Star Families<\/a>,\u00a0SkyHope<\/a>,\u00a0Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors(TAPS)<\/a>,\u00a0Travis Manion Foundation<\/a>,\u00a0United Service Organizations (USO)<\/a>, and\u00a0Wounded Warrior Project<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Armed Forces Day has been recognized by the league with special on-field caps each season since 2019<\/a>. Prior to that, military-inspired caps were instead worn during Memorial Day weekend in the U.S., which is observed each year on the last Monday in May. Since the change in 2019, teams playing on Memorial Day instead wear a special poppy patch on their jerseys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Major League Baseball players are wearing olive green, Armed Forces-inspired caps and socks for all games played the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-673896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}