MLB quietly forbids most teams from wearing rainbow jerseys on Pride Night

Major League Baseball (MLB), the professional league representing 30 North American teams, has quietly announced a policy that will indirectly bar teams from wearing rainbow-colored jerseys during their annual Pride night events.

“MLB informed teams during the offseason that they could only change their gameday uniforms for league-wide observances like Jackie Robinson Day,” reporter Adam Berry wrote on MLB.com, adding, “Pride Night is considered a local event.”

Only two teams, the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants, were granted exemptions based on a pre-existing agreement, Berry noted.

Cyd Zeigler, co-founder of the LGBTQ+ sports website Outsports, noted that the policy forbids the 28 other teams from wearing uniforms modified for any local events, not just Pride nights. That means that the members of the Tampa Bay Rays, some of which wore rainbows on their official team uniforms during their team’s 2022 Pride night, won’t be allowed to anymore.

“If you’re p**sed off at MLB about this new policy, know that these decisions aren’t made in a vacuum,” Ziegler wrote. “You can bet the…

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