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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.

No Comments / Jul 22.08 / MLB / by Mark

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)

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5 Comments / Jul 16.08 / MLB / by Mark