Have a Happy Mother's Day, MLB Style!

It's that wonderful day of the year again, time to celebrate Mother's Day the best way possible -- with the MLB!

From pink gear to video homages to Dallas Braden's perfect game, Mother's Day has always been a day to remember around the league, and this year should be no different.

From Little League to the Major Leagues, baseball will always be a family game. This Mother's Day, celebrate the joys of baseball and family with our article dedicated to moms and when you're done be sure to check out the Susan G Komen For the Cure website. The best way to celebrate moms is to help find a cure.

A special thanks to my mom, Bonnie. My biggest fan in the stands and my biggest fan on Bleacher Report. An incredible woman with an incredible passion for her family.

Pink Crazy

Pink bats, pink cleats, pink armbands and pink bases. Everywhere you look on Mother's Day in an MLB ballpark, players are commemorating moms everywhere with gear that they wear in honor of breast cancer.

Much of the gear will be auctioned off on team and league websites to benefit breast cancer research, and you can even buy a pink bat for the special woman in your life (and $10 of the price will also go to research).

It's only one day a year, but there's no denying it on Mother's Day around the MLB—tough guys wear pink.

30 Mother's Day Bat Girls

What a great idea for a promotion. For Mother's Day, every major league team, in partnership with Susan G Komen For the Cure, selected a special ball girl with a unique story, picked from thousands of entries on Honorary Bat Girl. The ball girls will be different, ranging from breast cancer survivors to daughters who recently lost their moms to cancer.

No matter how bad a 90-mile-per-hour fastball to the ribs may feel, it's nothing compared to what these women have fought through. If you're looking for inspiration, be sure to check out the 2012 Honoree Stories, sure to bring a tear to your eye and make you grateful for everything you have in your life.

Players' Stories About Their Moms

It's one thing for players to don the pink apparel, but it's a whole other great story to actually listen to them open up about their personal family stories.

For instance, hearing Jim Thome discuss his mother's battle with cancer and the promise he made to draw her initials in the dirt before he belted his 500th home run was something that would make any sports fan want to run and hug their mom.

Joe Blanton is another player whose mom battled with breast cancer. In his interview with MLB.com, he recalls his mom throwing out the first pitch at one of his games when she was recognized by throwing on the ceremonial first pitch and constantly being motivated by her will to beat cancer.

What players do on the field makes them All-Stars, but it's their off the field stories that make them heroes.

Little League Moms with Major League Hearts

For any of us that grew up playing Little League, we are eternally indebted to our moms for all the uniform washing, carpooling, and snack providing they did over the years. For some of us, we even had the honor of calling them "Coach".

Without the help of moms, it's doubtful that many of the current professionals would have accomplished all of their incredible feats.

Matt Kemp's walk-off home run described the relationship between mother and son perfectly earlier in the season when he touched home plate and sought out his mom for a hug. Not all mothers and sons will get that moment, but the moments growing up on a ball field are things that no child or parent will ever forget.

Dallas Braden Throws Perfect Game in Honor of Late Mother

Could there be any more touching Mother's Day moment than this? 

After losing his mother to cancer in high school, Dallas Braden honored his mother's memory the best way he knew how—pitching his heart out.

After never throwing a complete game in his brief major league career, Braden toed the rubber on Mother's Day and pitched one of the most masterful games in MLB history, a perfect game against a hot Tampa Bay Rays team.

After losing his mother, Braden's grandmother became his primary caregiver and was on hand to witness the historic, heartfelt event. The scene of Braden and his grandmother hugging on the field at the conclusion of the perfecto is an image that will forever be cemented in baseball and Mother's Day history.

Not much in Braden's life could be considered perfect—he lost his mom and had to sleep in his car because that was the only way to keep his big league dream alive—but for one afternoon, everything in his life was perfect.