Brett Gardner writes history

We all may have seen MLB teams are wearing different jerseys than normal. That’s all because it is players weekend. For the first time players are allowed to wear their nicknames on the back of their jerseys, wear batting gloves and cleats in wild colors. There is only one player who did not want to have a nickname on his back.

Brett Gardner, left fielder of the New York Yankees did not like the idea to have a name on the back of his jersey. He is a traditionalist and wasn’t too fond of the odd color jerseys either. Gardner rather wears the pinstriped jersey without a name on the back.

For the first time since 1914, the last year the Yankees did not wear pinstripes on their home jersey, the team will not wear pinstriped jerseys during a home game, so the team breaks with a 103-year old tradition.

But, as written before, Gardner did not want to wear any name on the back of his jersey. He made a plea to be cleared from what he thinks is nonsense. But Major League Baseball did not allow him not to put a name on his jersey.
“I tried to go no name at all and keep it original. But they made me put something. I figured I never had my name on the back of my jersey before, so instead of putting a freakin’ nickname, I put my name on there. That (having no name) apparently is not allowed.”

So by putting his family name on the back of the jersey, Gardner became the first ever Yankee to wear his family name on the back of a Yankee jersey, even though it is not the pinstriped one.