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PHOTO: Lehigh Valley IronPigs unveil new bacon-themed uniform

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What is America? America is baseball and bacon. And the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, the Triple-A affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies, are taking it back to the United States' roots. 

The IronPigs unveiled new uniforms on Monday, and while their primary logos and uniforms remain unchanged, they'll be wearing bacon-themed apparel on Saturdays. 

[Courtesy the IronPigs' website]

It's beautiful, isn't it?

The team's website has more details:

The "Smell The Change" initiative is brought to life in the IronPigs brand-new bacon-themed Saturday ensemble, which includes a bacon strip logo transfixed to the cap, a fresh "Pigs" jersey design emblazoned across the chest as well as the first-of-its-kind bacon-style piping down both legs of the pants. Similar to years past, the Saturday top is Brick Red but now includes the endearing term, ''Pigs" across the chest with a wavy bacon underline. The bold new bacon strip logo sits atop a two-tone cap featuring the familiar colors of IronPigs Steel and Furnace Blue. The bacon-enriched pants, the first baseball pants to feature a logo design within the piping, are also IronPigs Steel. In addition to the cap and uniform offerings, innovative "scratch-and-sniff" t-shirts that smell like bacon (they'll literally make your mouth water) ...

Bacon-style piping! And a wavy bacon underline! What a country. For more on the club's new uniforms, visit smellthechange.com

God bless America. 

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