St. Patrick's Day Gear
Even the bases were green.
A holiday rarely passes these days without some special edition or themed sports apparel. St. Patrick’s Day is no exception.
At Holman Stadium in Dodgertown this afternoon, the Los Angeles Dodgers sported green jerseys with Dodger blue shamrocks on the sleeve. And the bases were green. Fans wore green Dodgers caps and a wide variety of St. Patrick’s Day themed T-shirts.
More than a dozen MLB teams were reportedly wearing green caps or green jerseys or both around spring training stadiums today.
In the NBA, the three teams that last year donned St. Patrick’s Day themed-uniforms – the Boston Celtics, Chicago Bulls and New York Knicks – are doing so again this year. In addition, the Dallas Mavericks wore their green uniforms on Wednesday, while the Seattle Supersonics and the Milwaukee Bucks wear their road green uniforms for home games today. The Bucks are encouraging their fans to wear green tonight, too.
Special merchandise marking the holiday, including hats, headbands, socks and pins, has been on sale at the NBA Store in Manhattan and at NBAStore.com The Bulls are selling a special Spalding St. Patrick’s Day basketball at United Center.
The NHL, meanwhile, reports St. Patrick’s Day-themed gear represented about 60 percent of sales at NHL.com for the month of February. The limited edition items included green T-shirts, hats and pucks with team logos and a shamrock.
CRAIG DAVIS In more than 33 years at the Sun Sentinel, Craig Davis has written about a wide variety of sports topics from baseball to yachting, fishing to triathlons, and also worked as a copy editor and page designer. Recently he reported on local sports, including running, swimming, cycling, equestrian and beach volleyball. He enjoys sports as a participant as well as a spectator, is active in the South Florida running scene plays in the curling club at Saveology Iceplex. This blog offers a glimpse at the business side of sports in the interest of enhancing enjoyment of the games and sporting options as a spectator as well as a participant.
