Inspired by Honorificus - Fashion of the Baseball Uniform

[dlgood]

I'm not just into sports for the athleticism, or the drama. Much like Jerry Seinfeld, I root for the uniforms. I read Paul Lukas' blog Uni Watch on ESPN.com. (Also published in Slate and the Village Voice)


And so, I post this review and comment on a fine website I've recently come across:

Dressed to the Nines: A History of the Baseball Uniform

It's an adjunct of the Baseball hall of fame, and one of my favorite exhibits. The site covers pretty much every aspect of the baseball uniform, and it's historical evolution. From desgins, the development of jerseys and knitting, the caps, and even stirrups and socks. That stuff fascinates me.

But the topper, of course, is the exhaustive database of every Major League team's uniform from every season, including variants. (The database from the last few years seems to be incomplete...)

Including the bad fashion statements of baseball history - even worse than the 1916 season when the Dodgers and Giants both wore checkerboard pattern uniforms. Worse than Houston's rainbow sunburst pattern, or the San Diego Padres taco uniforms or the 1979 Pirates.

The 1976 Chicago White Sox



The Shorts. The collars. Ack.

Comments

[honorh.livejournal.com]

Honorificus wishes to inform you that if you do not correct your misspelling of her name, she'll be forced to cram every item of clothing you own into one of your orifices.

[thelastgoodname.livejournal.com]

Wow. Lukas is fantastic; thanks for introducing us.

My football team went to single-color home uniforms (navy blue) a few years ago, with the same semi-stripe/swoosh on the pants that the Broncos pioneered when they finally switched from the orange jersey. No one liked it, but then we started winning, and now no one minds so much.

[nwhepcat.livejournal.com]

The Village Voice ran an article on baseball uniforms a buncha years ago -- back when the stockings were just a narrow stripe of color over the sanitary socks, and if you wore your pants in the vicinity of your ankles, you were square. Funny how fashion changes in everything.

(And ay ay ay, those Sox unis!)

[cjlasky.livejournal.com]

In football, I always had a sneaking admiration for the early Tampa Bay Bucs "out and proud" pirate uniforms myself.

(Yarrr!)