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Many Major League Baseball teams hold Star Wars promotions at their ballparks at some point in the season. Thanks to one graphic designer, the teams could now even change their logos for the special night.

The designer who blended NHL teams’ logos with The Simpsons tried his luck with another sports league and an iconic movie franchise. This time, he did his best to blend MLB teams’ logos with Star Wars characters.

All 30 teams’ logos can be seen on the designer’s Instagram account. Below are some of the most intriguing designs.

Atlanta Braves

Boston Red Sox

Cleveland Indians

Kansas City Royals

Los Angeles Dodgers

New York Yankees (aka “The Evil Empire”)

San Francisco Giants

Toronto Blue Jays

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Lifelong baseball fan Tom Willis was born without arms, but that hasn’t stopped him from throwing out first pitches in ballparks around the country.

Willis has learned to do things, such as throwing a baseball, with his feet.

On Thursday, Willis threw out the first pitch at the Minnesota Twins-Kansas City Royals game. It’s remarkable to see how easy he makes pitching out of the windup look.

According to the broadcast, Willis has thrown out a first pitch at 22 different ballparks as part of his Pitch for Awareness tour.

[MLB]

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Los Angeles Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw is the best pitcher in Major League Baseball, so if anyone can knock an apple off someone’s head with a baseball, he’s probably the best bet.

Jimmy Kimmel thought it’d be a good idea to give Kershaw a chance to try his luck.

It took the southpaw a few attempts to knock the apple off the talk-show host’s head, but Kershaw eventually did it—just not the way Kimmel had hoped.

[Jimmy Kimmel Live]

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The Colorado Rockies had good intentions with their gameday promotion for Saturday night against the Pittsburgh Pirates, but the execution didn’t go as planned.

Update: Saturday, July 26, 2014, 8:15 p.m. ET

The Rockies have apologized for the misspelled jerseys, offering to exchange the jersey for one spelled correctly and a free ticket to a future game.

—End of update—

The first 15,000 fans were to be given free Troy Tulowitzki shirts. Unfortunately, there was a typo in the All-Star shortstop’s name, with the manufacturers accidentally spelling it “Tulowizki.”

[Twitter]

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A group of San Francisco Giants fans is doing everything it can to honor baseball’s all-time home run leader with a statue.

Barry Bonds slugged 762 home runs in his 22-year career, with 15 of those seasons played with the Giants. For most of his career, Bonds was a perennial All-Star and Most Valuable Player award candidate. 

Unfortunately for him, he became one of the faces of baseball’s steroid era, which has kept him from getting inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

If Bonds can’t get into Cooperstown, some Giants fans want to make sure he is properly honored in San Francisco.

A collection of Giants fans created a Kickstarter campaign to try to raise money for a bronze Bonds statue. The group’s goal is to raise $60,000 by Aug. 21 so that an eight-foot statue can be built to honor the controversial star. If the goal of $60,000 is met, any additional money raised would be used to try to make the statue even bigger.

The location for a potential statue has not been determined, although the group wants it placed near AT&T Park. If the statue does indeed get built, it will be unveiled on Opening Day 2015. 

This project leaves us wondering one thing: Does Bonds deserve a statue in San Francisco?

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A man that appears to be guitarist and singer-songwriter Jack White was in the house for the Chicago Cubs’ showdown vs. the San Diego Padres, and he did not look happy. 

As you can imagine, the combination of a miserable-looking famous fan and the Cubs made the jokes almost too easy for some on Twitter.

Cheer up, Jack! At least the Tigers (from White’s hometown of Detroit) are solid this year!

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If there are no more questions, Cliff Lee would like to end this interview on a wet, crinkly note. 

After two months on the disabled list, the Philadelphia Phillies starter returned to the mound in uninspiring form on Monday night, chalking up one of the worst games of his career against the San Francisco Giants (12 hits, six runs in just under six innings).

It was a night to forget for Lee, who could be hopping towns if the Phillies can convince an eligible suitor to take a chance on the 35-year-old lefty and pick up the $12.5 million buyout left on his contract.

Thus Lee concluded what could have been one of his final interviews in a Phillies uniform with a definitive (ceremonious?) passing of gas. 

CSNPhilly.com (h/t Barry Petchesky of Deadspin) was on hand to capture the endearing moment.

After halfheartedly going through the postgame motions with reporters (he wants to win games, he’s not worried about leaving Philly), Lee waited patiently for a final question from the pack.

The pause soured into awkwardness and, sensing conclusion, Lee adjourned the forum with a judicious gavel clap of butt thunder.

Is there any punctuation in public discourse more final than the screech of the barking spider? I believe there is not. 

No matter how serious the business or matter afoot, it will be derailed—if not ended entirely—by the sound of the boxer bugle’s crisp reveille. Farts end discussions and, as Lee proved, introduce newer, deeper lines of conversation. 

“Did you get that on tape?” Lee asked, not in the least ashamed.

Yes, the reporters got that all down, and if Mr. Lee believes his bottom was misquoted, he may take that up with the editors at CSN.

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Yasiel Puig and Hanley Ramirez were bored Monday night.

After a weekend of painful plunks to their respective left hands, the two Los Angeles Dodgers found themselves confined to the dugout for their away opener against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Like kids stuck inside on a rainy day, they fussed about restlessly before deciding to invent their own entertainment: annoying SportsNet LA reporter Alanna Rizzo.

The two men stuck their hands up and made faces during Rizzo’s live-air segment at the top of the sixth. Puig made a finger mustache, and Ramirez mouthed the lyrics to “Soul Man.”

A professional to the end, Rizzo played along with the distraction.

“Yasiel Puig and Hanley Ramirez continue to not leave me alone,” Rizzo said.

Some people found Puig and Ramirez’s gimmick entertaining.

Puig and Hanley are going to do the things Puig and Hanley do, but there comes a time when they need to let the other pros do their jobs.

The good news is that the kids might not be be cooped up for long. J.P. Hoornstra of InsideSoCal.com reports that Puig and Ramirez didn‘t suffer any broken bones after each was hit by a pitch over the weekend.

On Monday, Dodgers manager Don Mattingly told Hoornstra and fellow reporters that Puig and Ramirez are sore and their timetable for return remains fluid.

“Hanley’s sore. Yasiel is still a bit sore,” Mattingly said. “Hanley, we’re not going to try to do anything with. Yasiel, as the day goes on, we’ll see if he can do anything.”

Please, Don. If they can play, get them back on the field. Do it for Alanna. When they’re hurt, she hurts.

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Major League Baseball players have to find a way to keep busy during rain delays. While some choose to slide around on the tarp, others just sit back and relax. 

The Philadelphia Phillies bullpen has come up with a great way to have fun together: bocce.

This video was reportedly taken at Turner Field on July 20, when the Phillies and the Atlanta Braves had to endure a rain delay that lasted an hour and 39 minutes. Philadelphia relievers killed time by playing some bocce.

[YouTube, h/t SB Nation]

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There was bad blood between the Chicago White Sox and Texas Rangers’ Nolan Ryan, and after this 1993 beatdown from Ryan on Chicago’s Robin Ventura, there’s no doubt who came out on top.

Ryan, then 46 years old and 20 years older than Ventura, told the Austin-American Statesman (via Wikipedia) he used the same move on the steers on his Texas ranch as he grabbed Ventura, put him in a headlock and started whaling. 

Ventura was thrown out of the game while Nolan was not. 

[MLB]

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