Yankees players push for unprecedented alternate jersey: report

For more than 120 years, the New York Yankees were traditionalists, the only team in Major League Baseball without an official alternate jersey. But all of this can change.

According to The Athletic, Yankees players pitched the idea of ​​a new jersey to the team’s higher-ups.

According to the news, the players want the jersey to be on the away side and the pinstripes on the home field to remain unchanged.

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The Bronx Bombers wear navy blue tops with “New York” during spring training, spring road games; this is what they will likely wear on the road if a change is made. Compared to the same blue top as the interlocking NY, home pinstripes have become more common in home spring training competitions in recent years.

This skin is normally used with players’ “t-shirts” and is also a replica sold online.

The Yankees have worn different jerseys in the past; these included Players’ Weekend from 2017 to 2019, a tribute to the 1912 team while playing in Boston on the 100th anniversary of the opening of Fenway Park, and jerseys commemorating the Black Yankees in 1996. The Yankees also wore replicas of their 1921 away jerseys for their first Field of Dreams game in 1921. 2021. However, none of these jerseys have been officially placed in rotation.

Ben Rice of the New York Yankees runs the bases after hitting a solo home run against the Chicago Cubs in the third inning of a spring training game at Sloan Park in Mesa, Arizona on March 24, 2026. (Chris Coduto/Getty Images)

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The Yankees also remain the only team to not have their last name on the back of their jerseys, home or away. They are also one of only two teams, including Athletics, that do not have a City Connect jersey. The Athletics, currently based in Sacramento after their lease in Oakland expires after the 2024 season, will begin play in Las Vegas in 2028.

Team owner Hal Steinbrenner, who The Athletic said will likely make the final decision, has tended to change in recent years. The Yankees added an advertising patch to their jerseys in 2023, and “well-groomed” facial hair under the lip was reintroduced starting last year after it was banned for 50 years by Steinbrenner’s father, George.

Paul Goldschmidt, Ben Rice and Cody Bellinger of the New York Yankees wait for the start of a spring training game against the Chicago Cubs at Sloan Park on March 24, 2026 in Mesa, Arizona. (Chris Coduto/Getty Images)

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But for the foreseeable future, the Yankees will be wearing their road gray. Those bases will return to Fenway Park on Wednesday for the second game of the 14-9 Yankees’ nine-game road trip.

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