MLB Using Special Pink Mother’s Day Balls (Photo)

It’s Mother’s Day today, and while baseball has long been a sport shared between father and son, the sport is honoring the unsung heroes of the baseball worlds — mothers. Teams around the MLB will be using a special pink stitched baseball to honor the mothers out there in addition to donning other pink items of clothing this Sunday.

The pink balls and the pink clothing items are an obvious nod to the cause of Breast Cancer Awareness and while Breast Cancer Awareness month is typically celebrated in October when the NFL is in full swing and can bring the cause to the front of everyone’s minds, baseball typically celebrates awareness during it season as well.

We are closely moving towards more and more pink on Mother’s Day in baseball and that’s a beautiful thing. We can never have enough awareness for the disease that kills tens of thousands of women and mothers every year. Pink has never been a traditionally “manly” color, but it’s becoming more than something Paris Hilton and other immature teenage girls likes to splatter all over her walls. It’s becoming the symbol for awareness and that has everything to do with it’s incorporation into sports for the purpose of awareness.

Every time you see pink in public, out first thought goes to Breast Cancer Awareness and that’s a powerful thing. Baseballs will be pink on Sunday, but while it will only last one day, the awareness it raises will go on long after that.