{"id":210256,"date":"2024-02-23T14:53:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T19:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/?p=210256"},"modified":"2024-02-23T14:53:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T19:53:33","slug":"cnn-article-about-mlb-jersey-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/2024\/02\/23\/cnn-article-about-mlb-jersey-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN article about MLB Jersey Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the story: \u201cSports uniforms are really symbolic for people. They foster a collective identity between fans, a city and players,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/~andons\">Stephen Andon<\/a>, an associate professor of sports communication\u00a0 who studies sports team branding and merchandise. When a star player signs with a new team, the player holds up his jersey at a press conference. Teams retire their most important players\u2019 jersey numbers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUniforms are draped in big history. The expectation from fans is that the jersey has to carry that weight,\u201d Andon said. \u201cThey expect major league quality from their garments, especially at the prices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Playing on the dynamic between popular culture and the rhetorical theory of memory, his research interests involve a wide array of topics dealing with sport, including the nostalgic influences of media sport, sport and social media, and the development of sports fan cultures. Specifically, his writing includes pieces on the National Hockey League\u2019s Winter Classic, the trend of throwback uniforms in Major League Baseball, and supporters\u2019 culture in professional soccer.<\/p>\n<span class=\"prpl-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/02\/21\/business\/baseball-fans-are-up-in-arms-about-new-mlb-jerseys\/index.html\">Read the full story at CNN.com<\/a><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featuring Stephen Andon, SCM sports communication professor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":210258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-announcements","category-235_school-of-communication-and-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210259,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210256\/revisions\/210259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}