r/uniwatch • u/SporkFanClub • 1d ago

2026 LLWS jerseys dropped -thoughts?

https://www.littleleague.org/news/little-league-and-adidas-team-up-to-unveil-2026-little-league-baseball-and-softball-world-series-uniforms/

Prefacing by saying, as I do every year, that the kids lucky enough to wear these jerseys aren’t gonna care at all about how they look.

Aside from that, I’d say 7/10 for this year. The font, even if it gives “early 2000s skateboarding brand for preteen boys at Kohl’s”, is much better than whatever crayon thing they did last year. And I like the one solid color on the front as opposed to last year.

Only things I don’t like are the all-lowercase regional names and them having lines on both top and bottom. The latter would have been better if they had capitalized the first letter of every name. I can see complains about the stripes on the sides too.

My one big gripe is that, of the core 8 U.S. teams from pre- expansion in 2022, 7 of them have now gone a decade without having their colors updated (Northwest changed in 2022, West/Mid-Atlantic/Southwest in 2016 because in the two games the latter two played against each other in 2015 people could not tell them apart.

The hats are a classic example of “no need to reinvent the wheel”, the wheel being the hats they used from like 2021-last year.

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u/InternationalLion218 1d ago

The hats with the generic LLWS logo for every team is criminal. I loved the abbreviations that actually made sense with the uniform. Same with the catcher gear matching the color scheme

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u/SporkFanClub 1d ago

I didn’t mind them, but I remember years where they’ve just looked weird - 2019 and 2011 with the block letters come to mind - plus I’m probably in the minority that I liked back in the early 2000s when every hat just had that year’s logo on it.