This is what happens when you mix the Rolling Stones and Miami Marlins. How to get album

Howard Cohen
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The Rolling Stones’ lips and tongue logo, the most famous logo in rock-’n’-roll history, was commissioned in 1970.

The Miami Marlins’ rebranded logo — a marlin in blue, red and black leaping through a transparent baseball with Miami scripted underneath — was introduced for the 2019 season.

In October 2023, the two logos come together on a limited edition vinyl version of the Stones’ new album, “Hackney Diamonds.”

The 60-year-old British rock group wanted to promote its first album of new originals in 18 years. The Stones must have figured the current trend of releasing multiple collect-them-all album covers works for Taylor Swift, so why not tap that marketing genius? The Stones practically patterned rock marketing.

So in addition to releasing vinyl in different colored disc configurations, the group partnered with Major League Baseball to produce “extremely limited” pressings of “Hackney Diamonds.” Each disc has custom art for each of the 30 MLB clubs.

How to buy a copy: The vinyl, at $38 plus shipping, can be ordered at therollingstonesshop.com. The 30 special editions, including the Miami Marlins version, is only available on the group’s website.

What you’re getting: Individual record albums sport a baseball white vinyl disc housed in a white pocket 12-inch jacket. Each album comes emblazoned with a team’s logo on the lower right.

Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones perform at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens on Friday, August 30, 2019
Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones perform at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens on Friday, August 30, 2019

What does the Marlins’ Stones vinyl look like?

The Rolling Stones’ ”Hackney Diamonds” Major League Baseball team up release of vinyl versions of its 2023 album feature logos of the 30 MLB teams. The Miami Marlins version includes the team’s logo in the lower right corner and MIA in lettering as part of the rock group’s iconic lips and tongue logo.
The Rolling Stones’ ”Hackney Diamonds” Major League Baseball team up release of vinyl versions of its 2023 album feature logos of the 30 MLB teams. The Miami Marlins version includes the team’s logo in the lower right corner and MIA in lettering as part of the rock group’s iconic lips and tongue logo.

For the Miami Marlins version, the eyes of the Rolling Stones’ lips and tongue logo are turned into MIA in black lettering and the unfurled tongue is a blue baseball skin.

Then-Florida Marlins outfielder Chuck Carr enters Joe Robbie Stadium with his arms up saying “MY HOME,” before a light workout in this file photo from April 24, 1995. The Miami Marlins have had its own stadium since 2012 but in the 1990s the baseball team, and rock groups like the Rolling Stones, used the Miami Gardens venue, now Hard Rock Stadium.
Then-Florida Marlins outfielder Chuck Carr enters Joe Robbie Stadium with his arms up saying “MY HOME,” before a light workout in this file photo from April 24, 1995. The Miami Marlins have had its own stadium since 2012 but in the 1990s the baseball team, and rock groups like the Rolling Stones, used the Miami Gardens venue, now Hard Rock Stadium.

Why would Rolling Stones team up with MLB?

Crews take apart the Rolling Stones’ Voodoo Lounge set on Nov. 26, 1994, the day after the band’s concert at Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami Gardens. The Miami Marlins played that stadium from its 1993 inception to the end of the 2011 MLB season.
Crews take apart the Rolling Stones’ Voodoo Lounge set on Nov. 26, 1994, the day after the band’s concert at Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami Gardens. The Miami Marlins played that stadium from its 1993 inception to the end of the 2011 MLB season.

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and their band mates have performed stadium shows on the home fields of many of MLB’s teams.

Before gaining its own stadium in 2012 in the heart of Miami (now named loanDepot park) the Marlins played at what is now Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens from the team’s 1993 birth to the end of the 2011 season.

The Stones performed at the Miami Gardens stadium for the Voodoo Lounge Tour in 1994, a year after the Marlins took the field for the first time. The group has since returned to the venue, most recently in 2019 on its No Filter Tour, its last with late drummer Charlie Watts, who is heard playing on two songs on the new album — “Mess It Up” and “Live by the Sword” which also features a guest appearance by original Stones bassist Bill Wyman and pianist Elton John.

Mick Jagger sings “Tumblin’ Dice,” the second song of the Rolling Stones’ Voodoo Lounge Tour concert date at Joe Robbie Stadium on Nov. 25, 1994.
Mick Jagger sings “Tumblin’ Dice,” the second song of the Rolling Stones’ Voodoo Lounge Tour concert date at Joe Robbie Stadium on Nov. 25, 1994.

Concerts inside baseball stadiums

Billy the Marlin waves to the crowd wearing a Florida Panthers hockey jersey before the Florida Marlins game against the Chicago Cubs at Joe Robbie Stadium on June 1, 1996. The Panthers were playing in game seven of the Eastern Conference Finals at Pittsburgh on the same night as the Marlins-Cubs game in Miami.
Billy the Marlin waves to the crowd wearing a Florida Panthers hockey jersey before the Florida Marlins game against the Chicago Cubs at Joe Robbie Stadium on June 1, 1996. The Panthers were playing in game seven of the Eastern Conference Finals at Pittsburgh on the same night as the Marlins-Cubs game in Miami.

The Stones’ history inside Major League Baseball stadiums includes the 1989 Steel Wheels Tour at Philadelphia’s Veterans Stadium, RFK Stadium in Washington, New York’s Shea Stadium and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

In Miami, Steel Wheels took over the now-departed Orange Bowl, former home of the Miami Dolphins, in the spring of 1990.

The Bridges to Babylon Tour in 1997 found the Stones inside Dodgers Stadium (and Orange Bowl, again) and A Bigger Bang Tour led off with two shows at Boston’s Fenway Park in August 2005. The group, with replacement drummer Steve Jordan, has talked of touring in 2024 to support “Hackney Diamonds.”

11/23/94 -- Photo by DAVID BERGMAN/Herald Staff -- Jim Wrenn, a member of the local crew, hoists a rope connected to a bank of lights at the top of the Rolling Stones’ stage inside Joe Robbie Stadium on Nov. 23, 1994, two days before the group filled the Miami Gardens baseball and football stadium for its Voodoo Lounge Tour.
11/23/94 -- Photo by DAVID BERGMAN/Herald Staff -- Jim Wrenn, a member of the local crew, hoists a rope connected to a bank of lights at the top of the Rolling Stones’ stage inside Joe Robbie Stadium on Nov. 23, 1994, two days before the group filled the Miami Gardens baseball and football stadium for its Voodoo Lounge Tour.
The surviving Rolling Stones in 2023. Guitarist Ron Wood (left), singer Mick Jagger (center) and guitarist Keith Richards (right) in a promo photo for the group’s album, “Hackney Diamonds,” released in October 2023.
The surviving Rolling Stones in 2023. Guitarist Ron Wood (left), singer Mick Jagger (center) and guitarist Keith Richards (right) in a promo photo for the group’s album, “Hackney Diamonds,” released in October 2023.