Diamondbacks' new threads, or ...

[alleyallen]

what happens when an Astros jersey and a Nationals jersey get it on.

http://www.mlb.com/ari/photogallery/year_2006/month_11/day_04/cf1733289.html

Man, why you gotta bring the Astros into this?

 

[tommyp]

Irish: The Pirates had two caps. The gold with black stripes and black with gold stripes.

 

[writing irish]

Must have blocked that out. I remember the black, spaced on the gold. But yeah, I now remember the gold ones.

Does anyone else remember the NL centennial season when lots of NL clubs celebrated by going stovepipe? I think that's where the Pirates got the idea. Fortunately, the other teams just limited the stovepipe look to a few games.

It's good, overall, to see the dumb fads of the 90s (teal and purple, mainly) falling by the wayside.

Brick and khaki are the new teal and purple. At least it looks better.

 

[beefncheddar]

what happens when an Astros jersey and a Nationals jersey get it on.

http://www.mlb.com/ari/photogallery/year_2006/month_11/day_04/cf1733289.html

Man, why you gotta bring the Astros into this?

Because the Diamondbacks just stole their colors.

 

[Hooray4snail]

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.

 

[buckweaver]

Must have blocked that out. I remember the black, spaced on the gold. But yeah, I now remember the gold ones.

Does anyone else remember the NL centennial season when lots of NL clubs celebrated by going stovepipe? I think that's where the Pirates got the idea. Fortunately, the other teams just limited the stovepipe look to a few games.

It's good, overall, to see the dumb fads of the 90s (teal and purple, mainly) falling by the wayside.

Brick and khaki are the new teal and purple. At least it looks better.

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>).

 

[writing irish]

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

 

[writing irish]

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

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

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

 

[BYH]

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

 

[BYH]

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 **** up.

 

[Mateo]

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.

 

[Cadet]

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

 

[HoopsMcCann]

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...

 

[dixiehack]

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

 

[HoopsMcCann]

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

 

[Columbo]

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 almost wants to be The Shocker

 

[Crimson Tide]

Better than the **** they had. Seriously, purple and teal for a team based in the desert?

And why are there no white helmets/hats in the pros?

 

[BYH]

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...

Holy ****, you're right.

Guess the DBacks wanted their fair share of the idiot frat boy market, along with Oregon State, South Carolina and Wichita State.

 

[Herky_Jerky]

I can't believe we've gotten this far in the post without anyone commenting on the Young MC sighting among those photos in the galleries.

Go to the fifth photo in the second D'backs gallery. He's sitting there with Kurt Warner and Larry Fitzgerald.

Apparently, Arizona's new unis will allow them to bust a move this season.

Also, regarding the 1976 uniforms, did anyone notice that the Astros' home and road unis were the same? Kinda makes you wonder what they would've looked like if they'd had different road uniforms.

By the way, I'm really digging the new D'backs uniforms and am tempted to by some gear.