Why the 2025 MLB All-Star Game will have a throwback feel

Baseball fans might feel a bit of nostalgia during Tuesday night’s All-Star Game.

Thanks to the uniforms.

Reversing a six-year trend, players will wear their team’s primary home and road jerseys during the All-Star Game. Teams wore those jerseys in All-Star Games dating back to the 1930s, through the 2019 edition, before switching to American League and National League jerseys.

All-Star jerseys actually debuted in 1997, but were used for workouts and/or the Home Run Derby until 2019. They were first used in the game itself for the 2021 All-Star Game.

With Truist Park, home of the Atlanta Braves, hosting the All-Star Game players on National League teams will wear home jerseys, while players on American League teams will wear away jerseys.

Several players addressed the return to baseball’s roots on Monday when speaking with the media ahead of the All-Star Game.

“Growing up, I saw players wear their own jerseys, which I thought was amazing, and I’m glad to see us going back to that,” said Casey Mize of the Detroit Tigers. “It’s pretty special. I care about Detroit, I care about the organization, our fans, and I’m happy to be able to hopefully make us proud on a national scale.”

“It feels great. I’m here for those guys, I’m playing for them right now. It’s just as much their award as it is mine,” said Andrew Abbott of the Cincinnati Reds. “So it feels fantastic to be here and represent Cincinnati.”

Tampa Bay Rays infielder Brandon Lowe viewed the uniforms as a way to repay the organization that “took a risk” on him as he started his professional career.

“To wear a Rays jersey to represent, personally, the organization that took a risk on me — they drafted me, they signed me to an extension — to be able to kind of pay it forward, almost like, ‘You guys invested this in me, and now I get to repay you with playing well and show you that it was a good idea,’ it means the world,” said Lowe.

So if you feel a little nostalgia tonight as the All-Star Game gets underway, understand you might not be alone.

The players on the field might feel the same way.