MLB pink bats — why a special Mother's Day tradition works so well
It only happens one day a year.
MLB pink bats — why a special Mother's Day tradition works so well originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . One of the coolest traditions in sports returns on Sunday, May 10 -- Mother's Day.
MLB players around the league will use pink bats, as well as many wearing pink batting gloves, cleats, wrist bands and more. It's a way the league has raised breast cancer awareness since the inception of the pink theme on major league diamonds in 2006. It's one of those things that it feels like baseball gets very right.
The pink provides such a contrast of the day-to-day monotony of a baseball season. Even to the most diehard of fans, it's a sport that is defined more by the way it ticks like a metronome and is always present. The days can blur -- was that a Tuesday night game or a Wednesday night game?
But on Mother's Day across MLB, that monotony is replaced by a splash of color. The pink is eye-catching just by virtue of it being a bright hue, and then the places it shows up on the diamond are simply different. Bats are always black or brown or tan or maybe a bit of a dark red.