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The Cincinnati Reds and Atlanta Braves will meet at Bristol Motor Speedway next month in the first-ever regular season Major League Baseball game played in the state of Tennessee. Billed as the 2025 MLB Speedway Classic, the event will see the two clubs facing off on a field constructed within the infield of one of NASCAR\u2019s most iconic tracks.<\/p>\n
To match this fuel-injected setting, the league unveiled a pair of special uniforms for the game this morning, styled after the typical visual identity of a stock car.<\/p>\n
The design changes are most obvious on the helmets. Each team will wear a fully custom shell featuring a large player number in a racing-style font on one side, a stylized version of the team name in an autograph-style script, a checkerboard pattern, and two crossed checkered flags on the back. The front logo remains the usual team mark, now paired with the club name beneath it in the same autograph font.<\/p>\n
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\u201cYou\u2019re not afraid to fill a space in NASCAR, and these things help fill a space,\u201d said Jason Yeadon, MLB\u2019s Senior Creative Director, in a conversation with SportsLogos.net. \u201cThis is the first time we\u2019ve designed a full custom [batting] helmet. The overall look of the uniform is going to be a big part of telling the story.\u201d<\/p>\n
With Atlanta in their navy blue alternates and Cincinnati in its standard home whites, the jerseys will appear unchanged for the game, at least from the front. Turn the jersey around and you\u2019ll see a new racecar-inspired player number font, identical in style for both teams, with Atlanta\u2019s in red and Cincinnati\u2019s in white. A 2025 MLB Speedway Classic logo<\/a> will be worn on one sleeve.<\/p>\n \u201cWe designed one set of numbers for both clubs and then used them in two different colourways,\u201d Yeadon said. \u201cIt\u2019s a custom typeface we created for this event to continue the overall racing theme.\u201d<\/p>\n The on-field caps will also feature NASCAR styling, although I unfortunately don\u2019t have any photos of them at this time (I will soon; check back!) If I recall correctly, the caps included a flame design along the side panel. According to Yeadon, New Era led the design process for the caps.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have a good relationship with New Era,\u201d he said. \u201cWe typically talk to them about some of the design and show the style guide. For this, we were moving quickly on other stuff, so we let them run with it.\u201d<\/p>\n The overall Speedway Classic branding includes a full visual identity package created by the league. At the centre is the primary logo, revealed last year, that uses the league\u2019s simplified block font paired with angled ovals, checkerboard flags, and other speed-related elements. The name of the host city, Bristol, Tennessee, is worked directly into the mark.<\/p>\n \u201cOverall, the logo is pretty simple, but the style guide around it and the patterns are really what we wanted to promote,\u201d said Yeadon. \u201cOne of the big pieces is starting to bring in that speed of the track, showing the angle, showing the circle or the oval they\u2019d be racing on, and the stars and the lights and how that\u2019s going to be a spectacle.\u201d<\/p>\n Supporting design elements include NASCAR-style driver signatures, flame streaks, oversized decals, and a variety of classic racing car-style patterns. These secondary logos and graphics were created for use across merchandise, social media, and event signage.<\/p>\n Yeadon also noted the artwork was developed with consumer products in mind, and then expanded across the rest of the branding. The colours used throughout (the various shades of blue and red) are part of MLB\u2019s recently standardized palette of event-specific and officially approved colours.<\/p>\n \u201cIf we\u2019re picking a red or a blue, or even a green or an orange, we have an MLB version of what those colours are,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The event\u2019s visual direction reflects NASCAR\u2019s long-standing design approach, characterized by full-body graphics, oversized lettering, and layered visual elements. Both the logos and uniforms of the MLB Speedway Classic incorporate many of these same ideas to create an on-field product that blends the traditional baseball look with the more fast-paced NASCAR style.<\/p>\n The Braves and Reds are officially set to play a regular season game inside Bristol Motor Speedway on August 2, 2025<\/p>\n Here’s what the view will look like from The Last Great Colosseum \ud83e\udd29 pic.twitter.com\/iA5xu3s4OX<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mlb-speedway-classic-2025-uniforms-reds-braves-nascar-sportslogosnet-235736c.jpg\")
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