MLB’s Uniform Fiasco Is About More Than See-Through Pants

Let’s take Major League Baseball’s word for it that this year’s much-maligned Nike-designed, Fanatics-produced uniform pants—the ones players call “see-through,” the ones they drag reporters to their lockers to feel, the ones they are trying to get away with not wearing—are the same as last year’s pants.

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Every sports story is a labor story, and this one dates back to 1965 when the fledgling Major League Baseball Players Association began to strengthen in response to the owners’ threat that they would cancel the players’ pension plan. Since then the sport has seen nine work stoppages, some $270 million in owner fines after the players proved the tea... See more