Bird..Bird..Bird.. Elite Louisville is the Word

The tip-off to a new season is only a few weeks away(pun very much intended). So what should be on your mind besides making it to the chip and winning it all? Looking great as you do it. Plus I know just the right look to fix that, The Elite Louisville package. And the good news about this package is teams will be too focus on your jerseys how/where to get them, that the competition will be little to none and hopefully with that your team can ride the luck Louisville had and win it all.


TSP: Elite Louisville Package

The Hunt for a Pink October

Well everybody......... The hunt is over, and just in time to show your support for Breast Cancer Awareness Month or better said in the sports terminology world as "Saving Second Base". What else would look better than fighting for a W in pink camo while standing up to the fight against Breast Cancer at the same time? Don't worry I can wait........(nothing).......... cause I can't come up with a better look than this Elite Camo Rama package. Plus choose your style by showing off the team as "On the field vets" in three color traditional  or "Leaders of the new school" in four color digital. Either way you look at it, its a win-win. You're standing up for a good cause and looking good as you do it.


 

Elite Camo Rama 

Color ways for the guys who

 want to feel "Pretty in Pink" too

while showing some support

Here's a idea for the fall ball players and teams that will be playing in October; For the whole time during Breast Cancer Awareness Month DON'T steal second base in support for the fight our close friends & love ones are going through.

 And it doesn't have to stop there with only the uniforms,

                                                 up the ante with accessories to match.

Mizuno Organizer Bat Pack

Mizuno Premier G3



Jennie Finch Headband 

Rawlings 2 Tone Coolflow



Back to the Future

If your eyes haven't been following the CWS (College World Series), don't worry - you didn't travel back in time. The retro look is just stepping out of its time capsule and making a comeback. Louisville, NC State and Mississippi State are going for the 70's/80's look of the Houston Astros and Chicago White Sox. I have to say "I can dig it"! At least it's easy on the eyes, unlike their basketball uniforms from this years tournament.

Camouflage Fastpitch Softball Uniforms

Camouflage baseball uniforms have become extremely popular in the last few years, with teams like the Padres sporting them a few times a season at home. The USA Baseball Collegiate National Team was also looking sharp in a simple camo design, as they competed in this years’five-game international friendship series. As you can imagine, camo fever has caught on with other sports, including women’s fastpitch softball. Gone are the days of strictly tan hues, as teams get creative with their choice of color schemes. For many softball teams, bright vivid colors rule the field – hot pinks, limes, purples and oranges are no exception when choosing colors. Check out some of these vivid softball camo uniforms that are sure to turn heads!

These are some of the newest softball uniforms designed at TeamSportsPlanet.com

ADV Camo 2

Blue and Cyan Camouflage Softball Uniform

Hot Pink and Yellow Camouflage Softball Uniform

Red and Grey Camouflage Softball Uniform

Elite Bash Deluxe

Teal Camouflage Softball Uniform

US Woodland/Army Camouflage Color Scheme

"Chocolate Chip"/Desert Camouflage Softball Uniforms

Purple and Athletic Gold Camouflage Fastpitch Softball Uniform

Orange and Teal Camo Uniform


Royal and Grey Camouflage Uniform


Florescent Green/Neon Green and Hot Pink Fastpitch Softball Uniform


Hot Pink and Teal Camouflage Softball Uniforms


Forest Green and Black Camouflage Fastpitch Uniforms

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The Best Fastpitch Softball Uniforms on the Planet!

Sublimated Uniforms...The New HDTV?

I remember going the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas in the early '90's. Every other booth seemed to have a high definition television displayed. Serious, sweaty & emphatic sales people gushed effusively that HDTV was going to be all the rage. Was going to change the world. Blah, blah, blah.

They went on & on about how unbelievably clear the picture quality was. When I mentioned that, if you changed the channel, the picture looked like crap, I was informed that that was because no one was yet producing televison in HD. Oh.

In short, the "awesome" technology of high definition television (read: the Hardware) was only as good as the content it displayed (the Software). The technology was so good, it made "inferior" low def. content look WORSE. "But you wait....", they told me.

I did. For over a decade.

Now, I love watching sports on my 52" HDTV. Incredible. (Sure, the non-HD stuff is almost unwatchable) but in sum, good things did come to those that waited.

We're about 5 years into the "Decade of Sublimated Uniforms" and I guess I can't help but feel kind of the same way I did at the mid-point of the HDTV revolution.

Sublimated uniforms, without question, have some really, really excellent qualities. The decorative elements (names, numbers, etc.) will never peel, crack and so forth. You can make the case that sublimated uniforms a are inherently lighter in weight as no "third party" elements are screened, sealed or sewn to the garment itself, sparing the athlete the ignominy of the classic "puddle of sweat" around these decorative elements.

But there's likewise little question that we are still in the early stages of this technology's developmental curve. It's still a little pricey, for one thing. The fabric restriction (read: polyester) is another.

Don't get me wrong, the splashy colors & design freedom that sublimation empowers is a welcome trend. But, IMHO, style needed not supercede substance. And a lot of what I see in sublimated uniforms today, skews toward the stylish and even if ever so slightly, away from the substantive. I honestly don't know if this aspect is simple market positioning by the manufacturers or is somehow a byproduct of the existing technology. But I know what I see and feel in my hand.

I remember the 1st time I did a presentation for the head of a large city's school board. The 1st thing the decision maker did when I handed her a uniform was turn it inside out. She didn't care what it looked like. She wanted to see the quality of how it was made.

Kind of like HDTV in the '90's!


Sports Uniform Guy
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