Mariners' City Connect uniforms pay tribute to Pacific Northwest
The Seattle Mariners are the latest MLB team to unveil their City Connect uniforms.
The new threads are inspired by the Pacific Northwest, including a nod to the Seattle Pilots from 1969 and the Seattle Steelheads of the 1940s.
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The jersey also contains a patch that represents the Pacific Coast League's Seattle Rainiers.
For Seattle. For the PNW.
— Seattle Mariners (@Mariners) April 28, 2023
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"There was a lot of excitement," Mariners director of marketing Mandy Lincoln said in a statement, according to Daniel Kramer of MLB.com. "The team was going places right as we tried to come up with the story that we wanted to tell. This is exciting. This is a new era of Mariners baseball and baseball in the Pacific Northwest, and we'd be remiss if we didn't tip our caps to the over a century of baseball here."
The Mariners will wear the uniforms for the first time on May 5 against the Houston Astros.