{"id":750866,"date":"2026-06-21T13:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T13:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/750866\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T13:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T13:07:17","slug":"mlb-players-recognize-fathers-day-with-blue-ribbons-on-uniforms-prostate-cancer-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/750866\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Players Recognize Father’s Day with Blue Ribbons on Uniforms, Prostate Cancer Donations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Why are all the baseball teams wearing blue ribbons on their jerseys today?<\/p>\n

Because it\u2019s Father\u2019s Day, of course!<\/p>\n

In the world of Major League Baseball, this means we get baby blue ribbons on the uniforms of Major League Baseball players, coaches, managers, and umpires for all games played on Sunday, June 21st.<\/p>\n

Beyond the ribbons, on-field personnel can add blue socks from Stance and blue wristbands from Franklin Sports, while players are free to swing blue, cause-inspired bats from Marucci, Victus, and other approved suppliers. Commemorative base jewels and lineup cards carrying the Father\u2019s Day prostate cancer awareness logo round out the day at each ballpark.<\/p>\n

It all ties back to the cause. The league\u2019s Father\u2019s Day program supports the Prostate Cancer Foundation, with this year\u2019s effort again powered by the Home Run Challenge, meaning every home run hit through the month of June, right up to today, generates proceeds for the foundation.<\/p>\n

What still isn\u2019t happening this year are the special blue caps. After being introduced in 2016, this is now three seasons in which there are no special caps for Father\u2019s Day \u2013 the 2020 pandemic-shortened year (which didn\u2019t start until July), and now both the 2025 and 2026 seasons.<\/p>\n

\"\"FATHER\u2019S DAY CAPS THROUGH THE YEARS<\/p>\n

Below is a quick trip back through time at the various Father\u2019s Day caps and jersey designs that we\u2019ve seen on the field since the program was first introduced in 2016. Note that there was no Father\u2019s Day cap during the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, nor in 2025 or 2026. Father\u2019s Day-themed jerseys were worn along with the caps in 2016 and 2017.<\/p>\n

\"\"\"\"<\/a>2023 Father\u2019s Day caps\"\"<\/a>2022 Father\u2019s Day caps\"\"<\/a>2021 Father\u2019s Day caps\"\"<\/a>2019 Father\u2019s Day caps\"\"<\/a>2018 Father\u2019s Day caps\"\"<\/a>2017 Father\u2019s Day uniforms\"\"<\/a>2016 Father\u2019s Day uniforms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why are all the baseball teams wearing blue ribbons on their jerseys today? Because it\u2019s Father\u2019s Day, of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-750866","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\/750866","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=750866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}