How skateboarding inspired the Rays City Connect jersey

Rays put the SKATE in skateboarding with this new jersey concept.

Tampa Bay is widely celebrated for many things — pristine beaches, excellent cigars, Cuban sandwiches — but when the average person thinks of the Tampa Bay area, skateboarding isn’t something that would typically come to mind.

And the Tampa Bay Rays are here to educate you on that point.

“What if we used this platform to tell a completely different story?” Rays VP Warren Hypes asked at the City Connect debut press conference.