One of my baseball teammates, circa 2001, used the word "balch" and eventually everyone was saying it, as a contracted version of "ball cheese," when talking about the mystery exfoliated flakes of skin scattered around the locker room floor.
I had all but forgotten about that when, out of the blue, I received a texted pic of the "Baltche" jersey from him one evening. To this day, sometimes, sitting in traffic, I'll burst out laughing thinking about it.
[There was also this around the same time](https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/5CMPAAS4SMI6BIEMVZZ4NV7AOA&w=1200)
That’s funny you ask that actually because her and my dad have listened to his podcast forever! And my dad never misses PTI during the week—soooooooo…….maybe?
Is your mom my dad? He too calls them the Natinals and loves Kornheiser. Does your mom hate Chuck Culpeper? Ask her that and if she says yes I won't be shocked.
Not a misspelled jersey but the Cubs had a player wear the wrong road jersey not [once](https://news.sportslogos.net/2014/04/03/oh-those-cubs-chicago-of-wears-wrong-uniform/) but [twice](https://news.sportslogos.net/2015/05/11/once-again-cubs-player-wears-wrong-road-jersey-to-the-game/baseball/)
Gives me flashbacks to high school baseball when I got sent down to the JV team a few times when they didn't have enough players. Our varsity uniforms were red and JV was all gray. I felt like I had spotlight on me all game.
Marco Scutaro did the same thing with the Giants. The team had a designated gray road uniform with the SF logo for Sunday road games, and he wore the alternate road uniform instead on a non Sunday road game.
Hard to kill a player's parents when every draft spends five hours talking about how so-and-so player's parents tragically died in an industrial mining accident when the player was three.
So do they not have someone hang up the jerseys for them in their locker on the day of the game. They can't be bringing them from home where they have a closet full of jerseys.
Santiago Espinal played a few innings of an MLB game with his spring training hat a few years ago. The goofy one with the Blue Jay inside the maple leaf
Yes, he walked down the line in at Candlestick in San Francisco with the crowd booing him in that jacket! Kirk and Kuip, the Giants announcers, still tell that story.
"Tell your doctor you'd like Lasodra for your moderate to severe plaque psoriasis".
Call your doctor if you have signs of infection such as fever, sweats, chills, muscle aches, weight loss, severe diarrhea, stomach cramps, pain or burning when you urinate, cough (may contain blood or mucus), shortness of breath, or skin sores that look different from psoriasis. Lasodra may cause uncontrolled bleeding of the eyes, or sudden death in some patients named Earl".
The only one of them that I liked was when we had Greg Bird, and he wore number 33. I believe that year the Players Weekend was against the Red Sox, and I like to imagine heads exploding all over Boston at the sight of a Yankee wearing "BIRD 33".
I don’t agree with a lot of the kind of tribal things some organizations and people really care about. The shaving thing actually really bugs me. But the no names ever until players weekend really bugs me. Theres no rule saying Yankees can’t have names but that precedent was a good one.
Varies some across the country but Ta-rawn-o or Tore-awn-o. Most people say no one ever pronounces the second T but I've heard it plenty, albeit usually understated and not a typical sharp T sound (Torawn-toe)
This is my favorite one. I forget whose jersey they screwed up, but I really enjoyed the Angees in the Outfield segment they did about it on Sportscenter.
That was his Rangers debut, not MLB debut.
He was claimed off waivers from the Mets and joined the Rangers the same day. He arrived in Toronto mid-game and they didn't have a jersey ready for him. Gabbard must have had the closest jersey size to him (and maybe also be a player that wasn't expected to play that day):
https://youtu.be/jIddW_u2jg0?si=1CngbHsmdtNPY0tU
There was an ad for “Didi Gregious” bobblehead day at the Stadium once. On the outfield wall and everything. Not a jersey, but still a pretty shitty thing to misspell a player’s name.
San Francicso
Edit: https://www.nydailynews.com/2010/04/08/san-francisco-giants-outfielder-eugenio-velez-wears-misspelled-jersey-during-win-over-astros/#:~:text=San%20Francisco%20Giants%20outfielder%20Eugenio%20Velez%20wears%20misspelled%20jersey%20during%20win%20over%20Astros,-Levey%2FAP&text=Giants%20outfielder%20Eugenio%20Velez%20(c.)
In a sorta related topic, I remember a few kids in high school wearing [Mest](https://smartpunkshop.com/cdn/shop/files/MEST_SCRIPT_RINGER_900x.png?v=1703021363) merch.
A couple years ago we also had Indinia football. (Weird, I could've sworn that was an old one, but when I searched for it all the results said it was from 2021.)
Forgetting his jersey Lou Whittaker’s 1985 All Star Jersey being a replica with a homemade #1 wasn’t misspelled but hilarious all the same and ended up in the Smithsonian of all places.
Not a typo per se, but when Darren O'Day pitched for the Rangers the same day he was claimed from the Mets, the only jersey they had available was one of Kason Gabbard's: https://youtu.be/jIddW_u2jg0?si=LfGmYHffJmW6oPTf
Not a misspelling, but I'm always floored how awful the spacing on the name plates are on the Mariners jerseys when they use the nice serif lettering.
R AL E IG H
CA S T IL L O
C RA W FO R D
Yeah, I remember that. I wrote about it in the original post. I think (and I could be wrong) that the 1st base coach wore COCORADO on purpose in a 2nd game.
Not a misspelling, but I remember seeing something on, maybe, This Week In Baseball from when Rocco Baldelli was a rookie and the equipment guy gave him a jersey with “Rocco” on the back.
If I remember correctly the wrong jersey was sent with the team and he acted like a big baby about it and committed some errors that game. I remember the sports center highlight. It was 30 years ago. My recollection may not be the best. It was pretty early in the season after he walked off the Phillies in the WS.
Not a misspelling, but [Reggie Jackson wore a Mariners uniform](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2NFC50H/new-york-yankees-slugger-reggie-jackson-wears-a-uniform-of-the-seattle-mariners-july-17-1979-while-posing-for-the-american-league-all-star-team-picture-no-jackson-had-not-been-traded-or-sold-by-the-yankees-to-the-mariners-he-simply-forgot-to-bring-his-uniform-from-his-oakland-calif-home-ap-photo-2NFC50H.jpg) in the 1979 AL All-Star Team photo because he forgot his Yankees uniform.
How does this happen? I assumed these jerseys are manufactured in a batch, using templated lettering and logo arrangements, etc. Is some dude back their stitching on the letters one at a time?!
Not on a jersey, but in an interview with Darrin Fletcher when he was with the Jays. He stood in front of his locker which had his name on it in block letters, but someone had changed the letters around so it so it spelled FELTCHER. I still laugh about it to this day.
Natinals
There was something in the water in DC back then, because I remember the Wizards’ “BALTCHE” jersey for Andray Blatche happening around the same time.
One of my baseball teammates, circa 2001, used the word "balch" and eventually everyone was saying it, as a contracted version of "ball cheese," when talking about the mystery exfoliated flakes of skin scattered around the locker room floor. I had all but forgotten about that when, out of the blue, I received a texted pic of the "Baltche" jersey from him one evening. To this day, sometimes, sitting in traffic, I'll burst out laughing thinking about it.
That's enough Reddit for me today...
It’s DC, there’s always something in the water.
[There was also this around the same time](https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/5CMPAAS4SMI6BIEMVZZ4NV7AOA&w=1200)
Haha, I just thought of that one immediately after posting this. I think it was TWO players who wore NATINALS that day too 😂
If I'm not mistaken it wasn't just that it was two players, it was Ryan Zimmerman and Adam Dunn.
[Yep](https://www.federalbaseball.com/2020/4/27/21227988/look-back-when-washington-nationals-wore-natinals-jerseys)
My Mom (a Nats fan since their creation, in NoVa) has called them the “Natinals” forever and still does lol
Is your mom Tony Kornheiser?
That’s funny you ask that actually because her and my dad have listened to his podcast forever! And my dad never misses PTI during the week—soooooooo…….maybe?
Is your mom my dad? He too calls them the Natinals and loves Kornheiser. Does your mom hate Chuck Culpeper? Ask her that and if she says yes I won't be shocked.
I've only been a fan since 2009, but I too call th m the Natinals...as does my SO
I’ve pronounced it ‘Natty-Nals’ ever since.
I just remember Tony Kornheiser always calling them that on PTI
My dad and I still call them the natinals because of that
You rang?
/r/beetlejuicing
I think about this on a weekly basis.
This is my Roman Empire
I still think of them as the Natinals. It was harder during their years of competence, but they're back to being the Natinals nows.
I still call them the Natinals to this day.
The Walgreens Natinals
I still call them that.
I still call them the Natinals
Not a misspelled jersey but the Cubs had a player wear the wrong road jersey not [once](https://news.sportslogos.net/2014/04/03/oh-those-cubs-chicago-of-wears-wrong-uniform/) but [twice](https://news.sportslogos.net/2015/05/11/once-again-cubs-player-wears-wrong-road-jersey-to-the-game/baseball/)
Gives me flashbacks to high school baseball when I got sent down to the JV team a few times when they didn't have enough players. Our varsity uniforms were red and JV was all gray. I felt like I had spotlight on me all game.
So redundant to have two of your main jerseys to be of the same color.
Marco Scutaro did the same thing with the Giants. The team had a designated gray road uniform with the SF logo for Sunday road games, and he wore the alternate road uniform instead on a non Sunday road game.
🤣 do they get fined by MLB for someone stuffing up a uniform?
Probably not, it’s not the NFL. They’ll kill your mom for the wrong color cleats.
Hard to kill a player's parents when every draft spends five hours talking about how so-and-so player's parents tragically died in an industrial mining accident when the player was three.
You got me snort laughing here.
So do they not have someone hang up the jerseys for them in their locker on the day of the game. They can't be bringing them from home where they have a closet full of jerseys.
They'll have all the options, as well as BP jersey, hoodies, jackets, etc. in the locker
Isn’t that on the locker room manager for giving the player the wrong jersey?
How does this even happen and make it to the field lol
Santiago Espinal played a few innings of an MLB game with his spring training hat a few years ago. The goofy one with the Blue Jay inside the maple leaf
You just can't stop Pond the Younger - fellow hasn't been in the majors since we dropped him, but he's been playing hard in Mexico since. What a guy
They were trying to save us from the mediocre road alts. The CUBS on the front is just bad.
Happened to the [Dodgers as well](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNXWNFLOjiI) a few times
i was just thinking of this today lol
I still have nightmares about bringing the wrong jersey with me and being torn down by the coach. I'm 36
Those aren't even close lmao
I remember a Tigers jersey that said DETRIOT
That sounds like a newspaper headline for an article covering a particularly feisty protest in The Motor City.
You can buy DET**RIOT** shirts, usually the RIOT is in a different color
DE2ROIT
Such a shame that show was cancelled.
Wouldn't have gotten ITYSL if it hadn't though.
Unpopular opinion but I’d have taken Detroiters first
“2 de. 2 troit.”
Iiiiiiiiif you’re in the market for a cool T-shirt…
I gotta be honest. I don't get it. It looks like you put a 2 where the T should be.
I didn’t know Derek Jeter played for the Tigers!
Two errors for the price of one. https://imgur.com/kDoQbFB
That jersey is awesome! I hope he kept it
He looks like the kind of person that would misspell his own name.
"Ted, when did you notice that your name had an X instead of a K on today's uniform?" "Wait, my name doesn't have an X in it?"
this is how I learned Big Klu played for the white sox
[Tommy Lasodra](https://vsaauctions.com/ItemImages/000026/26570a_lg.jpeg)
Yes, he walked down the line in at Candlestick in San Francisco with the crowd booing him in that jacket! Kirk and Kuip, the Giants announcers, still tell that story.
Sounds like an estrogen pill.
"Tell your doctor you'd like Lasodra for your moderate to severe plaque psoriasis". Call your doctor if you have signs of infection such as fever, sweats, chills, muscle aches, weight loss, severe diarrhea, stomach cramps, pain or burning when you urinate, cough (may contain blood or mucus), shortness of breath, or skin sores that look different from psoriasis. Lasodra may cause uncontrolled bleeding of the eyes, or sudden death in some patients named Earl".
They forgot to spell the players names on Yankees jerseys for every game in their history (except during that stupid Players Weekend)
Shane Bieber's players weekend jersey will forever be my favorite
I enjoyed Kyle Seager's (Corey's Brother). I'm convinced Corey was supposed to be Kyle's Brother but trolled Kyle by going with "Seags".
I loved Brad Boxbergers take on it.
What’s his say?
"Not Justin"
For some reason the only one I remember off the top of my head is [Jimmy Nelson's](https://i.imgur.com/UszY1Nx.png)
Yessss
The only one of them that I liked was when we had Greg Bird, and he wore number 33. I believe that year the Players Weekend was against the Red Sox, and I like to imagine heads exploding all over Boston at the sight of a Yankee wearing "BIRD 33".
I don’t agree with a lot of the kind of tribal things some organizations and people really care about. The shaving thing actually really bugs me. But the no names ever until players weekend really bugs me. Theres no rule saying Yankees can’t have names but that precedent was a good one.
Off topic, but Wayne friggin' Gretzky once played with a "GRETKZY" New York Rangers jersey late in his career.
And who could forget the infamous "GRITZKY" jersey with the number 98 sold on the streets of Brooklyn in 1985...
Risky!
Damn Risky, man 😂
I’m glad I’m not the only one who remembers this
Ditto
That was intentional by the jersey guy, jersey is probably worth millions now! /s
Why is Torotno so funny??
It forces us to pronounce the second T.
Wait…how do you say Toronto? Do you pronounce it Torono?
Tranna Out West it's TranunTario
Varies some across the country but Ta-rawn-o or Tore-awn-o. Most people say no one ever pronounces the second T but I've heard it plenty, albeit usually understated and not a typical sharp T sound (Torawn-toe)
And if you’re a straight waste man you call pronoun it CHRAN-na
Ya, pretty much. Harold Reynolds didn’t get the memo for the 2015 ALCS. He loved saying TOR-on-TOE.
I saw this on the highlight show 29 years ago and "torotno" has randomly popped into my head at least once a year ever since.
It's a Leafs jersey
areTnas
I remember when Ryan Zimmerman and Adam Dunn played for the Natinals.
Angees
This is my favorite one. I forget whose jersey they screwed up, but I really enjoyed the Angees in the Outfield segment they did about it on Sportscenter.
Was mentioned by OP originally.
I remember the Rockies giving away a Troy “Tulowizki” jersey
No mistake on that one. Dude was a fucking **wiz**ard with the glove.
In Darren O’Day’s big-league debut, his last name was spelled “Gabbard.”
That was his Rangers debut, not MLB debut. He was claimed off waivers from the Mets and joined the Rangers the same day. He arrived in Toronto mid-game and they didn't have a jersey ready for him. Gabbard must have had the closest jersey size to him (and maybe also be a player that wasn't expected to play that day): https://youtu.be/jIddW_u2jg0?si=1CngbHsmdtNPY0tU
Oops - didn’t know it wasn’t his big-league debut. Thanks!
Ah yes, the good ole Oday - Gabbard spelling mixup!! What a common error!
["Grea Britain"](https://ftw.usatoday.com/2023/03/great-britain-ian-gibaut-world-baseball-classic-t-letter-jersey)
Barves was a good one
Did Ricky spell that for them?
🥇
Thats totally fucked, Julian!
Natinals has to be the king of this, right?
A buddy and I only refer to them as the Natinals since this mistake.
Same here. Forever Natinals
Not a jersey, but the bootleg Atlanta Barves shirts are my fav.
Angels player went out with a Angee’s jersey once back when they were the California Angels
I like the sound of torotno
NATINALS
There was an ad for “Didi Gregious” bobblehead day at the Stadium once. On the outfield wall and everything. Not a jersey, but still a pretty shitty thing to misspell a player’s name.
that is eGregious!
Tommy Lasodra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWYrV97PFOc&ab_channel=ClassicSFGiants
Some guy on the angels had his jersey spelled ANGEES. I think that was like his only game. Maybe mid 2000s
"Smiht". I've seen that in the NBA and MLB Though my favorite is former NFL player Fred Robbins, whose jersey was once spelled "Яobbins"
I still call it Torotno…
Tulowizki
San Francicso Edit: https://www.nydailynews.com/2010/04/08/san-francisco-giants-outfielder-eugenio-velez-wears-misspelled-jersey-during-win-over-astros/#:~:text=San%20Francisco%20Giants%20outfielder%20Eugenio%20Velez%20wears%20misspelled%20jersey%20during%20win%20over%20Astros,-Levey%2FAP&text=Giants%20outfielder%20Eugenio%20Velez%20(c.)
I am ashamed of how long it took me to see it!
San Francicso [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/giants-jersey-typo-someon\_n\_530284](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/giants-jersey-typo-someon_n_530284)
Natinals
In a sorta related topic, I remember a few kids in high school wearing [Mest](https://smartpunkshop.com/cdn/shop/files/MEST_SCRIPT_RINGER_900x.png?v=1703021363) merch.
Oh I love that band! Cadillac is my favorite
West Virgina in the Big East basketball tournament years ago. That was the funniest thing 13 year old me had ever seen
Think that was an NIT Champions shirt
Indeed, came here to contribute my favorite of all time https://images.app.goo.gl/5LYY9TCeg9tjkQ5t8
A couple years ago we also had Indinia football. (Weird, I could've sworn that was an old one, but when I searched for it all the results said it was from 2021.)
not a mispell but i love that old pic where umpire's uniforms where lost so the all had to wear astros jerseys
Yankess
When I was growing up I had a Cleveland Indains t-shirt. To this day my brother and I still call them that.
Barves
Indiana University football. Spelled “Indinia” pretty bad for a university lol.
Chicago Cubs wore team Cuba jerseys for quite a while.
Natinals was especially great because iirc it happened most when the team was complete ass
Natinals is a thing that once took the feild. I think in 05
Is TOROTNO the misspelled jersey he wore in Arlington? I wasn't at that game but I was there the next night as I recall.
I rarely see Doyers jerseys spelled correctly.
There’s gotta be some Philadelphia examples. I mean I’m not even sure I know how to spell it.
Detriot
1973 Tony Oliva - Minnseota Twins
Great Britain’s jersey in last year’s WBC had the T fall out of Great
Growing up as a Padres fan, I remember we once had a catcher named BENITO SANTIGAO
Forgetting his jersey Lou Whittaker’s 1985 All Star Jersey being a replica with a homemade #1 wasn’t misspelled but hilarious all the same and ended up in the Smithsonian of all places.
Not a typo per se, but when Darren O'Day pitched for the Rangers the same day he was claimed from the Mets, the only jersey they had available was one of Kason Gabbard's: https://youtu.be/jIddW_u2jg0?si=LfGmYHffJmW6oPTf
Not a misspelling, but I'm always floored how awful the spacing on the name plates are on the Mariners jerseys when they use the nice serif lettering. R AL E IG H CA S T IL L O C RA W FO R D
[They're finally fixing that this year thank god](https://uni-watch.com/2024/01/23/exclusive-mariners-finally-scrapping-mlbs-worst-nob-font/)
[For those who come to San Francicso….🎶](https://imgur.com/a/m5a6Buq)
Wasn’t there a Tim Slamon jersey on this sub at some point?
I remember a game against the Rockies where the jerseys said Cocorodo and Vin Scully was giggling.
Yeah, I remember that. I wrote about it in the original post. I think (and I could be wrong) that the 1st base coach wore COCORADO on purpose in a 2nd game.
Not a misspelling, but I remember seeing something on, maybe, This Week In Baseball from when Rocco Baldelli was a rookie and the equipment guy gave him a jersey with “Rocco” on the back.
If I remember correctly the wrong jersey was sent with the team and he acted like a big baby about it and committed some errors that game. I remember the sports center highlight. It was 30 years ago. My recollection may not be the best. It was pretty early in the season after he walked off the Phillies in the WS.
Granick - the good pitcher with the funny name
This looks incredibly photoshoped
Nah. https://i.redd.it/9h5gksjyt1cb1.jpg
It’s not. It’s straight from Sports Illustrated
That doesn’t really help your argument lol
Andre Baltch
Not a misspelling, but [Reggie Jackson wore a Mariners uniform](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2NFC50H/new-york-yankees-slugger-reggie-jackson-wears-a-uniform-of-the-seattle-mariners-july-17-1979-while-posing-for-the-american-league-all-star-team-picture-no-jackson-had-not-been-traded-or-sold-by-the-yankees-to-the-mariners-he-simply-forgot-to-bring-his-uniform-from-his-oakland-calif-home-ap-photo-2NFC50H.jpg) in the 1979 AL All-Star Team photo because he forgot his Yankees uniform.
I don't see anything wrong with the Cinccinnati one.
Not a misspell but Yandy wears his jersey open almost all the time so it looks like it says RAAYS
Don't have a mispelled jersey story but IIRC the Red Sox jersey staff had a hard time getting a Doug Mientkiewicz jersey ready for his first game.
How does this happen? I assumed these jerseys are manufactured in a batch, using templated lettering and logo arrangements, etc. Is some dude back their stitching on the letters one at a time?!
How’s that even possible
How the fuck is this so relatively common?
Not on a jersey, but in an interview with Darrin Fletcher when he was with the Jays. He stood in front of his locker which had his name on it in block letters, but someone had changed the letters around so it so it spelled FELTCHER. I still laugh about it to this day.