Diamondbacks' new threads, or ...

Here's another thumbs-up on the new look. I'm with wannabe on the sleeve logo. Very cool.

Maybe the Astros should go back to their orange unis so we won't be confused next season.

 

Link, please?

According to <a href="http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/exhibits/online_exhibits/dressed_to_the_nines/uniforms.asp?league=&city=&lowYear=1969&highYear=1969&sort=year&increment=18&=Display+uniforms">this page on the HOF's Web site</a>, nobody wore stovepipe hats in 1969, which was officially celebrated as baseball's centennial year (just as 1994 was celebrated as the 125th anniversary. Uniform patches, not stovepipes, were worn in those seasons.)

Looking further, I think you might mean 1976, when the <a href="http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/exhibits/online_exhibits/dressed_to_the_nines/uniforms.asp?league=NL&city=&lowYear=1976&highYear=1976&sort=year&increment=15&=Display+uniforms">Reds, Phillies, Mets</a> used stovepipe hats at least once that season. The Pirates used stovepipes throughout that season for the first time (and continued <a href="http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/exhibits/online_exhibits/dressed_to_the_nines/uniforms.asp?league=NL&city=Pittsburgh&lowYear=1975&highYear=1987&sort=year&increment=15&=Display+uniforms">using them through 1986</a>).

 

http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/exhibits/online_exhibits/dressed_to_the_nines/uniforms.asp?league=NL&city=&lowYear=1976&highYear=1976&sort=year&increment=18

To celebrate the National League centennial in 1976, the Reds, Mets and Phils occasionally wore the stovepipe (also known as "pillbox" or "Chicago-style") caps as alternates. Pirates adopted them as standard uniform.

So yeah, four out of 12 clubs isn't exactly "lots." I remember seeing pillbox-style caps for sale for the Cubs and other teams, but it seems only a third of the league actually wore them on the field.

Anyway, here's an amusing NL all-star photo from that year with white pillbox lids...and Danny Ozark giving a little man-love to Steve Garvey...

http://static.flickr.com/77/203059085_f8305d0cd4_b.jpg

 

Great Ted Simmons' ghost! A closer look at that page reveals that the 76 Cardinals wore the stovepipes as a road cap...

http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/exhibits/online_exhibits/dressed_to_the_nines/detail_page.asp?fileName=nl_1976_stlouis.gif&Entryid=1317

 

NL umpires also wore horizontally striped caps on occasion in '76.

 

Spnited still has his Red Stockings cap from 1868. [/fucking douchebag dickhead!!!!]

 

As for the new uniform...ehh. Better than purple and teal, but so is my stool. It's hard to take a team seriously when it's less than 10 years old and already changing shit up.

 

Can't say I like the new threads. The black/red combo is the purple/teal of the new millenium.

Plus, that sleeve logo looks like a thrird grader designed it.

I'm partial to the old alternate logo they had.

 

That sleeve logo looks like a gang sign. Just sayin'.

 

hmmmm... i thought it looked like something else... but, well, cadet, not sure what you know about these things...

 

It's a "DB." That should be what we use when someone duplicates a post.

 

looks like the head of a snake, if you know what i mean...