Major League Baseball's new uniforms for Memorial Day in 2019 evoke World War I with a poppy theme.

Bye, Camo: MLB changes its approach to Memorial Day uniforms 

By Mike Oz
via the Yahoo! Sports web site

Major League Baseball has changed the way it is approaching Memorial Day uniforms for 2019, heeding criticism from the past and hoping to strike a subdued tone that’s more in line with the true meaning of the holiday.

Gone are the camouflage caps and camouflage accents on jerseys. Instead, MLB is adding a poppy to its Memorial Day uniforms — a symbol that has been used since the 1920s to honor those who died in war — with the phrase “Lest We Forget.” These will appear on teams’ regular uniforms. The caps will feature a special stars-and-stripes Memorial Day patch.

Neither the Memorial Day jerseys or the caps will be sold at retail stores, another change in MLB’s approach. The camo uniforms fans are used to seeing on Memorial Day will instead be worn May 17-19. The league is shifting that look to Armed Forces Day, the annual holiday that celebrates the military and falls on May 18 this year.

The difference between the two holidays is important: Armed Forces Day is about celebrating the military and its members, while Memorial Day is a solemn occasion to mourn soldiers who died in combat.

“We wanted to make sure we were sticking to the true meaning [of Memorial Day],” Melanie LeGrande, MLB’s vice president of social responsibility, told Yahoo Sports. “It’s really about observing all those who were lost.”

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