Major League Baseball’s annual Opening Day serves as many things: an important marker that spring is officially here, a huge day for both giant American flag and red, white, and blue bunting manufacturers, and one of the few days a year that baseball players bust the big fits out of their closets.
As far as America’s major sports go, baseball is several tiers below the NBA and NFL as far as player fashion goes. The MLB Fits Instagram page does not have a content well nearly as deep as their basketball or football counterparts, but the first day of the season still provides some heat. Every year on Opening Day, you’ll hear committed fans talk about how it should be a national holiday. While that will never happen—unless Eric Adams, who visited the Yankees’ TV booth for a few innings, promised to take the broadcast crew to the club, and said his office is already mapping out championship parade routes, becomes president—it is a holiday for baseball swag, which is admittedly graded on a curve.
Thursday’s festivities featured a few people who came correct, both on the field and with their tunnel entrance fits. In my ten-plus hours of watching Opening Day, I saw some typically outstanding jewelry, heard some great walk-up tunes (Justin Turner, the new Red Sox designated hitter opting for “Boston” by Augustana and the Cardinals’ Brendan Donovan using Rihanna’s “Desperado” for the second year in a row were among the most inspired choices), and tried to keep track of who treated the baseball diamond like a red carpet. (Excluding, for now, baseball-adjacent figures like Travis Scott and Mets owner Steve Cohen, who showed up to games in characteristic outfits.)
Megan Thee Stallion
Did we really expect anything else from Meg at her ceremonial first pitch from the Astros game?