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Even if you’re just now discovering Ebbets Field Flannels, there’s a good chance you’ve seen its work before. The company re-created all the minor league and Negro League uniforms for the Jackie Robinson biopic 42, as well as the Tour of Japan baseball uniforms in the recent Paul Rudd film, The Catcher Was a Spy.
Celebrities such as Spike Lee, David Letterman and Ashton Kutcher have all sported Ebbets Field Flannels. Letterman is such a fan he had throwback Late Show gear designed and created by the company. But no one has embraced the nostalgia of Ebbets Field Flannels quite like ESPN’s Keith Olbermann, who is now a minority owner. A noted baseball historian—Olbermann drops Federal League references like they’re going out of style—Olbermann oftens gives shoutouts to his Ebbets Field Flannel gear on Twitter and in interviews.
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