Cornering The Baseball Cards Market
‘The Amazon of Sports’ has already cornered baseball’s apparel market – and is now on the verge of subsuming baseball cards, too.
During spring training, Major League Baseball’s official uniform supplier, Fanatics, became a focal point for all the wrong reasons.
After arriving in Florida and Arizona, players began to complain about the quality of their new, Fanatics-manufactured uniforms.
One player for the Baltimore Orioles groused that the new uniforms looked “like a knockoff jersey from T.J. Maxx.” Others were dismayed to learn that the white pants were transparent, with seams from tucked-in jerseys – and sometimes more than just seams – visible to all.
The spring training uniform fiasco has led to more scrutiny for Fanatics, a company that had, until recently, been widely considere...
