Minnesota Twins Unveil Their Nike City Connect Uniforms
Minnesota are you ready for The Ripple Effect? Nike has designed a city connect jersey/hat that the brand feels will help fans appreciate the region of the ball club even more. With that being said, the Minnesota Twins unveil their new Nike City Connect uniforms and merch that are inspired by the area’s iconic lakes and bodies of water.
Heather Hinkel, who is the vice president of brand marketing for the Twins. Reveals the full inspiration behind the Nike collaboration uniforms representing the Land of 10,000 Lakes. She explains,
“We really wanted to talk about an experience everybody across our state has had. And it’s truly that sitting by a water understanding, hearing it come and ripple in and seeing the sunset, that is an experience, no matter who you are, where you’re located, that is something that you can experience and find that sense of peace and serenity around the lake.
If you think about it, we could have just done a plain blue jersey. But making the sublimated pattern that really reflects those ripples in the waves, making the blues sort of multidimensional, adding movement to the jersey by depending on what angle it is, I think that’s what we wanted to make sure we captured.
People know Prince is from here, but it’s not the only thing our state’s known for. We actually think our state’s more known for how many lakes that we have. And so we felt like if we were going to tell a first story in our City Connect uniform, that we better double down on the essence of our state. But that’s not to say Prince isn’t off the table for future years.”
Some other cool design elements include:
- Minnesota’s state bird — the common loon — appears on the sleeve patch with the North Star appearing as the head and beak.
- The yellow accents in the design are a reference to the Minnesota sunlight.
- The North Star indicates where the Twins reside in the twin cities.
- Minnesota’s cap has an outline of the state.
- Under the hat’s brim is a design with the topography of Lake Minnetonka, the uniform’s only nod to Grammy Award-winning artist Prince.
Yeah… doing a uniform with some Purple Reign influences could also have been pretty sweet. However, at least that is not off the table in the future. Yet, how do the players themselves feel about the new fits?
Well, Twins’ pitcher Joe Ryan is in favor of the new uniforms. He states,
“It’s cool that they’re different. It’s cool to get away from what our normal uniforms look like. They did a good job with that. It will be fun to see what works and doesn’t work with cleats and have a little bit of our own personal flair in there.”
Minnesota Twins Unveil Their Nike City Connect Uniforms
The Twins are a part of this year’s massive rollout of city connect jerseys. It was announced back in the middle of February that nine teams would get city connect uniforms during the 2024 season. You no doubt got to see the Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies and others proudly display and wear theirs so far this year. However, if you can’t seem to remember who all make of the nine teams to get Nike City Connect uniforms in 24’; here’s a quick cheat sheet:
- Cleveland Guardians
- Detroit Tigers
- Los Angeles Dodgers
- Minnesota Twins
- New York Mets
- Philadelphia Phillies
- St. Louis Cardinals
- Tampa Bay Rays
- Toronto Blue Jays
Nonetheless, now that the new uniforms have been announced the Twins are also wasting no time in putting them on the field. They’ll be worn for the first time on Friday. Then 10 more times through the end of the ‘24 regular season. Mostly on Fridays at home.
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