Good call JD.  They were 5'th worst...

5. Pittsburgh Pirates-1970s

                  

Okay, I don't like the black top, or the yellow pants, but this team wins the award for worst hat ever. It was strangely squared shaped, and it was a mix up of stripes and solids and too many strong colors. Not good.

No. They were spared. In fact the guy who wrote the article actually liked powder blue uniforms in general.

I liked the away uniforms too. I liked the fact they said MILWAUKEE on them. Now they just say Brewers.

I think we're the only team in the major leagues that doesn't put their city name on their road uniforms anymore.

tigers stadium 1970s



Comerica Park 2000.....

how bout that advertising....

Jr - that may not be true. I am actually trying to recall, but I think all the Phillies jerseys just say Phillies. I never really pay attention. And I am sitting here trying to picture the away uniforms. And some genious had a brilliant idea to create an alternative jersey that the Phils wear at home sometimes. Um, hello? You can't be at home and not have white with red pin stripes. The new uniforms have this cream color with a red Phillies across the chest and blue collar and sleeve hems.

I don't think the Brewers had bad uniforms and I enjoy that their Friday night homegames are retro nights and they wear the old uniforms. Houston's orange uniforms were bad and so was Pittsburg's yellow. If you take a look at Pittsburgh though, you will see that all theie major sports (baseball, footbal and hockey) are all black and gold. No other city can say that.

Oooooooo. I forgot about our powder blue road uniforms from way back when.

Wow Fuzz!! Turns out several teams don't use the city name on road uniforms anymore. I found this...

I've never really noticed the fact that most road jerseys have the team city on them while the home uniforms have the team nickname. When you think about it, it's entirely logical and it got me to wondering of the Orioles were the only team to employ this silly error of putting "Orioles" on both the home and road uniforms.

I knew that the Cardinals, Brewers and Angels all didn't put their city name on the road uniforms, but I didn't realize the Phillies the also used "Phillies" on both the road and home unis. That's only 5 teams, but these are changes that definitely need to be made. Back in the day, Milwaukee actually had "Milwaukee" on their road uniforms. From 1961-1964, the Los Angeles Angels actually had "Los Angeles" on the front. The California Angels never had "California" on the front, but the Anaheim Angels had "Anaheim" on the front from 2002-2003. The Phillies have never had "Philadelphia" on their road jerseys. St. Louis had "St. Louis" on their road jerseys until 1908, left it off and then went back to it from 1920-1921. Got rid of it and then went back to it from 1930-1932 and 1932 was the last time "St. Louis" was dawned on a Cardinals road uniform.

The Orioles had "Baltimore" on the road jerseys from 1956 until 1972. In 1973, they switched to "Orioles" on the road jerseys and they've never gone back. I'd love to see them go back but right now it doesn't look like it's going to happen anytime soon.

Interestingly enough, the two most beatiful uniforms in all of baseball never mention their team nickname on either the home or road jerseys. Those two teams would be Detroit and the New York Yankees. Detroit uses the Old English "D" on their home uniforms and "Detroit" on their road uniforms, while the Yankees use the stunning "NY" on their home unis and "New York" on their road greys.

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I remember when they first started putting advertising on the outfield walls of County Stadium. I hated it. It looked like a minor league park

I didn't know that about the Phil's Fuzzy. I guess we're not alone.

They say they stopped putting MILWAUKEE on our road uniforms because of the five county tax they put in effect to raise money for the ballpark.

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 I still hate the scrooling signs behind home plate. I despise that completely.

But the cities wised up to that years ago. If your city has a wage tax, these guys are paying it for their salary earned while playing home games. It is where your income is earned, not your residency. Plus, the state will get it's share too. Same principal. Your wages are earned in a state. If your state does not have a reciprocal agreement with your residency state, they get to keep the tax earned (provided there is state tax). There only a few states without state tax, FL being the biggest.

Sorry. But you should stop dragging the accountant out of me. You only do it to yourself. You will become boring if that keeps happening.