American flag designs appear everywhere during the Fourth of July. Many uses, though, go against what federal guidelines consider respectful.

This occurs in baseball too, of course, as noted in those Bank of America-sponsored flags and countless other bits of for-hire patriotic display. While patriotism is a laudable trait -- and while I ...

That's the price for one of the giant American flags that take center-stage at sporting ... 4th of July, Postseason Games, as it is a great part of the tradition of big baseball games,” Joe ...

NBC Sports writer Craig Calcaterra complained on Monday that "the entire right wing media" came after him after he complained about the use of American flags at Major League Baseball games.

NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 13: A giant American flag is stretched across the outfield during the performance of the National Anthem between the New York Yankees and the Detroit Tigers during Game One of ...

Outfielder Rick Monday of the Chicago Cubs dashes between two men in the Dodger Stadium Outfield in Los Angeles, in this April 25, 1976 photo, snatching an American flag the men were about to burn ...

At the World Baseball Classic, Team USA copied Army regulations by having an American flag patch on their right sleeve with the stars facing forward.