Batters Up: Major League Baseball Now on WordPress.com
Attention baseball fans, today we’re launching a triple-header of new themes just for you.
We’ve partnered with MLB.com to bring its Fan, Modern, and Retro blog themes to WordPress.com. The designs range from minimal (“Modern”) to loud (“Fan”), and there’s even a throwback to old MLB Club logos and styles for a bit of nostalgia (“Retro”, of course).
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- Fan
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- Modern
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- Retro
But that’s not all: you can also customize each of the MLB themes with your favorite team’s colors and logo. So whether you prefer O’s to A’s, pinstripes over blues, or Red Sox instead of White, we’ve got a theme for you.
We would also like to welcome the MLB.com blogging community, and thank them for waiting patiently in the bullpen while we prepped their new home here at WordPress.com. MLB bloggers: if you have any questions, please review our FAQ about the transition to WordPress.com, read our support guides, or feel free to get in touch.
So go ahead and join folks like Tommy Lasorda, Ozzie Guillen, Keith Olbermann, and thousands of other blogs of summer, by heading over to Appearance → Themes → Friends of WordPress.com in your WordPress.com dashboard to activate an MLB theme, and Appearance → Theme Options to pick your favorite team.
- May 17, 2011
- New Features, Themes
WordPress.com News 
great news…
Good job wordpress.com… 😉
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Ha, this is very FUN! ( If you’re loving baseball! ) I wish a lot of fun for those, which will use it! 😉 *hrhrhrh* Awesome.
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Wow, Awesome stuff. You guys are amazing. You impress me every time you bring out a new theme.
Keep up the great work!
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These themes will be a lot of fun for Baseball fans. Will WordPress be partnering with other Friends to develop more special interest themes?
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will there be more like this with other sports?
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COOL 🙂
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cool nice, do you also have football themes?:D these are very nice tnx
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This is really cool, WP! 🙂
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You guys rock…constantly coming up with new ideas and genius solutions. 🙂
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hmm..looks so nice..Wordpress show the surplus again, but I don’t like baseball..likely football will better than it..
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Very nice! How about something for the NHL, too? 😉
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Really Cool! Sport lovers thanks.
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Very cool!
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I want football themes, may you launch some, please!
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Realy good. I love it WordPress. thanks.
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“Any consideration being given for team customizations for Minor League teams?” asks the guy with a Gravatar image of a guy wearing an Albuquerque Isotopes hat.
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Great! Beautiful theme guys!
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It’s time to conquer the MLB official site!? 😛
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Now that is cool. I really like the Fan design.
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Bring tennis and the NHL to WordPress too!
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That’s pretty cool.
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great news if your american
football would be nice i dont mean american football, but football which americans call soccer but to the rest of the world its football
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That’s awesome, it’s nothing like my NFL interviews site
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“It’s like deja vu all over again!” 😉
Welcome to the new MLB bloggers and thank you for helping WordPress.com roll over to 20 million users. That’s a home run in my book.
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I’m not a baseball fan, but if I was, I’d be freaking out over this…LOL. Great job, WordPress! These themes look fun and inviting.
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It sounds really cool! Fan seems too loud for me, but Retro and Modern look really good. Great job!
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Oh, and I agree with Eric. A tennis theme would be cool!
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Very nice. I’m liking this!
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This is GREAT news for Major League Baseball (MLB) fans everywhere! A friend recently turned me on to WordPress for my own baseball site, and I have loved the beautiful simplicity of using it for sharing my MLB passion. This is smart for MLB, and great for baseball loving WordPress users!
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While I am no longer a rabid fan of MLB, I did take a look at the work done by your artists and liked what I saw there very much. I had the twinge of nostalgia I had for baseball when I was a kid. If we could do then what we could do now with technology, I would have stayed such a sports fanboy. Keep up the great work, guys.
Thaddeus
@ebonstorm
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GO CARDS!!!!!
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sounds great… need one for NBA though
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It’s a real pity that baseball is not a priority for me. Such a fun theme to use. Will you one day cater to figure skating also? That’s what I do.
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Very awesome idea, WP. Thanks.
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Cool, very innovative feature. Can we also have such a fan theme for soccer as well… (just kidding!)
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Very cool Themes
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That looks really nice.
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I’m sorry, but as a European, I fail to see the appeal of, or the need for, a bunch of themes that aimed solely at US bloggers and readers.
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Cool !
This is suitable for young people 🙂
Thank you
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Ironic that you launch this layout, the day that MLB Hall of Famer, Harmon Killebrew passed away. It is his silhouette that was used for the Major League Baseball logo.
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MLB won’t let us use their logo because it’s right protected, but as a member of WordPress it’s okay. Who knew? That’s good news. Thanks WordPress.
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how about English Premier League? we’re asian don’t know much about MLB 🙂
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looks cool,. nice job,.
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hot!!
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That’s cool! I don’t like baseball that much, but it is still cool. If you could do that with football or soccer, that would be great!
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I went to the theme showcase and it says that using these things requires agreeing to a page of unintelligible legalese separate from wordpress’s own terms and conditions? I’m thinking ‘no’.
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Wow, that’s exciting.
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WP has gone “three for three” today.
Good job thinking outside the … box.
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I’m loving this a lot!
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Awwwwww yeah. I’m not a baseball fan, but I appreciate the MLB’s endorsement. If you guys end up with NHL or NFL themed sites by the way, I am so there.
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Glad to see everyone digs our new Major League Baseball themes and welcome! Please join us on the MLB.com community blog anytime and get to know other MLB fans. Thanks, Paul and everyone at WordPress.com for helping to make this happen!
Mark/MLB.com
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ahh. a sports theme. i really like this. will you be making an NBA theme, soon?
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I didn’t know much about MLB.. but it’s cool, and I’m waiting for NBA theme.. 🙂
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football (soccer) themes please 🙂
great job wordpress, you are awesome 😉
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I’m not particularly into baseball, but thanks a lot for the sake of those who are. Way to go!
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That’s a great theme, good job.
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I’m not a baseball fan but but it looks cool.
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Lovely!! 🙂
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MLB will be heating up more after the NBA Finals – Thanks for keeping us updated!
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Let’s go Oakland! Clap clap, clap clap clap!
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I want a skateboarding theme.
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As I’m a Brit these don’t appeal to me at all. Can I put a request in for a theme with: a large header image so I can display my pictures nicely, at the moment I can only see a third of it. Totally customisable background, variable sized center columns plus change the colour and constrains large images and doesn’t bork them completely but still displays them and a variable side-bar width. (not asking much huh?) I use Modularity lite at the moment. WP is fantastic for posting large multi-chaptered docs *shakes fist at LiveJournal* and a breeze to use, how great was it to post a 28 chapter doc with links in 15 mins, so great! it’s just the blog that I just can’t get to look pretty enough, Blogger is customisable to death but a pig-dog to post anything large *shakes fist at Blogger*
vic
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How about a real game – like cricket? 😀
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oh man i don’t even usually get excited about new themes and stuff but this is sweet!!!
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Batter up!
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Very cool. Give the UK some love, let’s have some football (soccer!) themes
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Can we just get it over with and start football season already?
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Go Braves!!
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Great news good job wordpress
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Coooool!!
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how kool is that!
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Well done. I have an established custom theme, but this tempts me to switch…
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they did this cause they integrated mlb’s blogging site, mlblogs, with wordpress. So they moved all the mlblogs here. Example- my blog, Tiger Life, was a mlblog. Now it’s here.
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Smart move and a great idea WordPress! Bravo!
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The suprises never end!!
Thanks wordpress for providing a great blogging system, and quality entertainment as well.
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I’m really enjoying WordPress since we came from MLBlogs. Thanks to the WP community for being so cool and checking out my Phillies Blog!
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This was sporty and exciting enough to motivate many big wig with new ideas of unique collaborations.
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more of this. how about one for apple fans. keep up the great work.
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Good – now give us a live twitter and editable calendar widget.
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WordPress- You make me proud to be an American.
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GREAT WORK NOT JUST GREAT BUT ALSO CREATIVE I LIKE IT KEEP IT COMING
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Thanks to wordpress. This the awesome blogging system ever. I really love my own blog.
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