Last weekend, the Seattle Mariners announced that they are ditching the popular "Sunday Cream" alternate jerseys for the 2026 season.

Instead, for each Sunday home game, the M's will wear the also-popular Seattle Steelheads uniforms that we've seen at various times over the last five years.

The Steelheads were a Negro Leagues baseball team that played in Seattle for one season: 1946.

Showcasing the Steelheads uniforms is a way for the M's to honor the history of baseball in Seattle during the team's 50th anniversary season. It's also the 80th anniversary of that Steelheads season, which ties in nicely as well.

We caught up with Negro Leagues Baseball Museum president Bob Kendrick on the most recent 'Refuse to Lose' podcast to talk about the Steelheads, Ken Griffey Jr.'s impact on Jackie Robinson Day and much more, including the Negro League Baseball Museum's relationship with Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki.

"Ichiro has a special place in our hearts here at the Negro League Baseball Museum because of the relationship that he had with the late, great Buck O’Neill, the founder of this museum. And the relationship was so interesting because they became kind of kindred spirits united, because Ichiro would say that he admired Buck’s style.

And Buck was very snazzy. And Buck would always be out at the K (Kaufmann Stadium), hanging out at the batting cage, not just talking to the Royal players, but talking to all the players when they came through Kansas City. And so he struck up a relationship, or I should say, the two of them struck up a relationship. And I think for Buck, Buck knew exactly what Ichiro was going to go through when he announced that he was coming to the US to play in the major leagues. Because no matter what he had accomplished there in Japan, the minute he said he was coming to go play over here in the major leagues, all the naysayers said, 'well, you did that in your league, you won’t do that in our league.' And what does he do? He comes over here and rips this league up as well.

And see, Buck understood that, Brady, because it was the exact same thing for those Negro League players when they started transitioning into the major leagues. The naysayers were saying the exact same thing."

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