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Schneider Max MVP, Other Recent MLB PE’s
It’s time to check in with some new stuff from around baseball…
(AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
Brian Schneider recently started wearing a new Max MVP PE. It looks like these have white patent accents on the upper (and grey patent on the away PE at upper right), orange MCS outsoles, and blue Air units. I’ll work on finding some views of these without all of the catchers gear in the way, but these look impressive so far.
Red Sox-Yankees Weekend Series Cleats
Sox-Yankees games are great for many reasons, but one of the best things about them is that they’re all photographed like it’s the World Series, making for some great footwear shots. Here’s a couple good views of some recent cleats:
Here’s a better shot of the new David Ortiz signature shoe… he wore these during his recent rehab assignment, but they made their MLB debut this weekend. I’m guessing Reebok hasn’t made him a black version yet; he wore his black ‘08 sigs on Saturday.
(Photo by AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
UPDATE: This model is now available at Eastbay (thanks to rbkguy for pointing this out). It’s called the Big Papi 2M Mid II, and the product image can be seen here.
Albert Pujols Air Max MVP Player Exclusives
As promised, I finished up my renderings of Albert Pujols’ home and All-Star versions of his Max MVP PE’s. For whatever reason, Albert must prefer the Zoom heel cage to the Max Air unit in the MVP, but they look great regardless. The All-Star version appears above, and the home version appears below.
You’ll be seeing these and many others in the PE Gallery within the next few weeks.
Player Exclusive Gallery; New Matt Holliday PE
If you’ve visited the site over the past few days, you may have noticed the addition of the “PlayerExclusive.com PE Gallery: Coming Soon” graphic at the top of this page. The gallery isn’t up and running quite yet, but here’s the deal: One of my main goals for this site (beyond following the daily beat on PE’s) is to create an extensive visual collection of custom footwear from each sport. Much of this will hopefully be accomplished through PE close-up photos, but since it’s often difficult to obtain close-up shots for many models out there, I’ll be doing quite a bit of Photoshopping.
If you check out the gallery link now, you’ll see a few of my early renderings from the ‘08 baseball season. Even though I’ve only focused on Nike thus far (they’re the easiest to find photos to work from), I will definitely be doing all the major brands in the future. Here’s an example of one of my most recent renderings:
The above graphic is based on Matt Holliday’s latest Air Max MVP PE, as seen below:
(AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
I probably won’t be launching the gallery until the beginning of August (I’d like to get at least 20-30 models in there before I open it up), but in the meantime I’ll be sharing more renderings in my daily posts. I’ll be doing Albert Pujols’ latest Max MVP PE’s next, and Holliday’s All-Star PE’s (which, due to the pinstripes, will likely be ridiculously difficult to do) are on deck.
If you have any suggestions of what Nike models you’d like to see in the future, feel free to leave them in the comments section.
2008 MLB All-Star Game: Player Exclusives
One of my favorite things about the MLB All-Star cleats is the fact that it’s the only day that players wear colorways that they couldn’t wear otherwise. They’re able to disregard the “dominant cleat color” uniform rule and wear whatever they want, which means that we’ve seen a lot of white, grey, silver, and non-team colored cleats over the past few years. Even though I’ve always gravitated towards more conservative designs in baseball, I always look forward to seeing the bizarre colorways from the Midsummer Classic.
This year, there were so many All-Star PE’s that I actually had to split the ASG footwear into two posts (new releases post is here). The top PE’s appear below.
It’s not much of a surprise that Alex Rodriguez wore a white PE of his signature cleat — he’s worn white Shox cleats at the All-Star Game for the past few years. This PE featured embroidery on each cleat (the date on the shoe above, and “NEW YORK” on his other cleat), and additional views are available here and here.
(Photo by Nick Laham / Getty Images)
Albert Pujols wore the most attractive white PE in the game — they’re pretty simple, but they’re my favorite model from last night. These featured a Nike Air Max MVP upper, a 5-Tool Zoom Air midsole, and a white MCS outsole. Unfortunately, not too many photos of these were out there tonight… this is the only other decent view I could find. If anyone has any better shots of these, please get in touch.
(Photo by Jim McIsaac / Getty Images)
2008 MLB All-Star Game: New Releases
Over the past few years, companies have started using the MLB All-Star Game as a showcase for their new footwear and equipment. This year’s ASG carried on that tradition, and several new cleats were on display last night. (And just to clarify, even though this site is named PlayerExclusive.com, I’ll also be giving you a heads-up when new kicks hit the field or the court, PE or not.)
Here’s what we saw:
The most noticeable new model from last night was the Nike Air Max MVP. In addition to Joe Mauer above, these were worn by Ben Sheets, Dan Uggla, Edinson Volquez, Milton Bradley, Dioner Navarro, and Geovany Soto (Albert Pujols and Matt Holliday also wore PE’s of these, discussed in the All-Star Game PE post). The colorways worn by these players (all of which are in the 2009 Nike Baseball Catalog) will be available for purchase this fall, and solid colors will be available as well.
(Photo by Nick Laham/Getty Images)
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