Yesterday the Cardinals Instagram posted some pictures from Spring Training, and it gave us this fantastic photo of prospect Tink Hence.
Before getting into the details, let us just say, this is the correct way to wear the uniform. He looks fantastic on the mound with the red glove, high socks, red shoes, the whole ensemble. Tink, you look incredible wearing the Cardinals uniform.
But zoom in on Tink’s left calf. I guess MLB’s sock manufacturer, Stance, can’t be bothered to update the graphics on their garments from 5 years ago. That STL logo seen on the socks is the STL first used in 1963, and was worn up until it was refreshed in 2020. Zoom in, take a look.
The giveaway is the T with the trapezoid shaped top, and the S with the mismatched serifs on either sides. Here is the detailed comparison seen below.
So again, it’s been 5 years since we’ve updated our STL logo, why hasn’t Stance bothered to fix the logo? Nike and Fanatics have been burning money wildly in the past couple years trying to “fix” things. What about Stance? Perhaps if no one notices, and apparently no one cares, why change it? Perhaps Stance won’t spend any extra money fixing something that no one seems to care about if they’re still selling merchandise.
I went to Stance’s website to see if their On Field merchandise still has the old STL, and yes it does! https://www.stance.com/st-louis-cardinals-arches-diamond-pro-otc-socks/M75917BCAO.html?dwvar_M75917BCAO_color=RED&dwvar_M75917BCAO_size=L&quantity=1
But interestingly enough, the Off Field merchandise has the new STL… https://www.stance.com/mlb-2025-squeeze-crew-socks/MLBSQUEEZE2025STL.html?dwvar_MLBSQUEEZE2025STL_color=St.%20Louis%20Cardinals&dwvar_MLBSQUEEZE2025STL_size=L&quantity=1
So they have the new graphics, they know we’ve made the change, they just aren’t updating the official on-field socks for some unknown reason…
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