This is going to be a full article on the topic of the ridiculously awful white and black Players Weekend uniforms, clearly thought of and designed by someone who had never actually attended a baseball game, but New York Times national baseball writer Tyler Kepner sums up the weekend in one sentence:
The idea for these appears to have been inspired by the single-color uniforms worn by NBA teams several Christmas Days ago (these are from 2012):
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The thing is, an average MLB field is about 100,000 square feet.