Some Knuckle Tattoos

While the tattoo is mostly commonplace in baseball, there seems to be (with the exception of journeyman reliever Justin Miller) a real dearth of knuckle tattoos — i.e. the classiest possible tattoo.

Perhaps, one thinks, the reason for so few knuckle tattoos is a lack of inspiration among their potential human canvases. It’s with said lack of inspiration in mind that the author submits here five proposals for specific and active major leaguers.

To wit:

For Brett Gardner, the Yankees’ underrated star:

For Bobby Abreu, who’s drawn more base-on-balls than anyone else since 1998, his first full season in the majors:

For Justin Verlander, who is brilliant and rare and white:

For Mike Napoli, who, you might know, is an Italian-American:

And for the author’s personal cause celebre, Mr. Charlie Blackmon: