Awesome Baseball

Modify applies their mix-and-match design aesthetic to Major League Baseball, offering team logo watches for all 30 teams. Since the faces and straps are interchangeable, you can easily switch teams if yours starts to suck.

This young Barney Stinson was handed a foul ball at an MLB game. He then hands over a ball to a lady behind him, who was of course very touched by his gesture. We hate to break it to you like this ma’am, but you’ve been punked.

An oldie but a goodie from Freddie Wong, in which he shows off his impressive rapid-fire baseball batting technique. Given who it is in the video, we’re gonna guess it was VFX, not talent or luck, that helped him hit all those balls.

Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Munenori Kawasaki is still working on his mastery of the English language, but that just makes this locker room interview all the more endearing. His English is already so much better than Chico Escuela’s.

The Minor League team El Paso Chihuahuas pranked their new member by making him believe one of his teammates was deaf. They kept it up – even during games – for a month. He was clueless right until they confessed.

Shwood teamed up with Louisville Slugger to create these awesome limited-edition shades that are perfect for a sunny day at the ballpark. They’re made from reclaimed ash wood from old and broken baseball bats.

Rookies is a free iOS app that makes photos look like old baseball cards. You can then pay to have Rookies print your cards on premium recycled card stock. If you’re more of a basketball fan, check out this app instead.

A series of artful posters inspired by Major League Baseball’s players and stadiums, designed by great illustrators from around the world. Available printed on cotton rag paper, gallery-wrapped canvas, or brushed aluminum.

South Korean actress and taekwondo jin Tae-Mi threw this eye-catching first pitch at a Korean Baseball League game. She seems to have taken windup lessons from this Cirque du Soleil performer.

British comedian Anthony Richardson – the man behind the hilarious CPU vs. CPU – takes his commentating talents to the ball field. Fortunately for us, it seems like he also knows nothing about America’s pastime.

While his situation isn’t as precarious as ducks on an Indy track, this dog that ran onto the field during an NCAA baseball game is definitely out of place. Or is it? Seems that the crowd found its presence more exciting than the game itself.

A baseball fanatic’s dream machine, this NASA-inspired control panel created by Breakfast offers immediate access to tons of real-time baseball stats at the flip of a switch. On display at the MLB Fan Cave in NYC.

The latest trailer for Brian Helgeland’s 42, a drama about American baseball legend Jackie Robinson and the odds he and his supporters faced when he broke the color barrier in professional baseball.

Dude Perfect and his crew head to a baseball stadium to perform more outrageous basketball trick shots. Just once we’d like to see the outtakes of the video. The last trick shot is ridiculous!

The Mets’ 2012 season is but a distant memory, but before they ran out of steam, director Marc Rienzo and his team at Digital Domain Media Group created this futuristic CGI short to inspire fans. More here.

Mythbusters’ Kari Byron and Tory Belleci join S.F. Giants’ rockstar pitcher Matt Cain as he destroys objects flung into the air with his precision fastball. Best line: “Oh, god. The cheese!”

For the final out of a Yankees/Blue Jays matchup, pitcher Chad Jenkins makes an epic catch, grabbing the ball hit by Curtis Granderson in his glove, and the glove kept going. (Thanks Dan!)

An early look at Brian Helgeland’s Jackie Robinson bio pic, starring a bowtied Harrison Ford as Dodger’s GM Branch Rickey, who broke baseball’s color barrier by signing the great Number 42.

Michael Peebles started the Huntington Baseball Co. in hope of bringing the game’s rich history back to life with a series of hand-made, old-fashioned gear including bats, gloves, baseballs and hats.

Apparently the umpire at this Daytona Cubs game doesn’t have much of a sense of humor, as he ejects Derek Dye, the team’s music guy/announcer for playing “Three Blind Mice” over the PA.

The boys of Ultimate Batting Practice are back with another “Is it fake?” stunt. This time they play a weird amalgam of tennis and baseball, using bats to volley a baseball back and forth.

PRO-Keds teamed up with Louisville Slugger to create this special edition of the Royal Hi. It has a baseball leather upper, baseball cross-stitch detailing, rawhide laces and a cork footbed.

FPS Russia shows off what his his M2 semi-automatic 12-gauge shotgun can do, but around the 2 minute mark he gets down to business, playing baseball the only way he knows how.