Between now and New Year’s Eve we’ll run down the top ten stories covered on Ballpark Digest in 2014, determined by page views. At #9: the ugly Christmas sweater uniforms donned by the Williamsport Crosscutters for a Halfway to Christmas promotion.
It’s appropriate that our ninth-most popular story from 2014 is posted on Christmas Eve, as the Williamsport Crosscutters (short season A; NY-Penn League) generated lots of attention for the ugly Christmas sweater uniforms sported by the team for a Halfway to Christmas promotion.
Now, Christmas-themed promotions are a staple of Minor League Baseball. But the Spinners and other teams took the promotion to a new level with colorful uniforms based on one of the most unlikely cultural trends to emerge the past few years: ugly Christmas sweaters.
The Crosscutters weren’t the only team to don ugly Christmas sweater uniforms in 2014. The Lowell Spinners (short season A; NY-Penn League) also featured ugly unis:
The Toledo Mud Hens (Class AAA; International League) flipped the formula a little, sporting two different holiday uniforms for a Christmas in July doubleheader promo:
