Baseball team to wear jerseys that look like Mister Rogers' sweater

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/05/31/baseball-team-to-wear-jerseys.html

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Then there are the uniforms you’re issued for the entire season. Say, cheese. Say, cheese! Dammit… say, CHEESE!!

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The GUYS GET SHIRTS

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As if he wasn’t already the most endearing human ever, the sweaters that he wore were actually knitted by his mother. Until fairly recently, the only shows I would allow my kids to watch unsupervised were Reading Rainbow and Mr Rogers Neighborhood. I would still watch with them half the time out of pure enjoyment. This is from an earlier season and, as with damn near every episode, it brought me to tears:

EDIT: Eh, sorry if the embed won’t play for you. It’s worth a click-through.

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“Won’t you please, won’t you please? Please won’t you be my grounder?”

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Hey, that was a Bill Veeck experiment, and although baseball and shorts don’t naturally go together I still give Bill Veeck a lot of credit for at least trying something that hasn’t been done before… He would have totally gone for the Mister Rogers uniform.

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Joking aside, I think it’s possible for the unfortunate wearers to have given Veeck credit for trying, while simultaneously wishing that he hadn’t.

And perhaps the lapels didn’t help the situation, either.

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Yeah, I don’t know how much those uniforms were loved or despised at the time. It was after all the 70’s and disco fever pretty much took over the popular aesthetic. I would guess that it wasn’t fun sliding into base.

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Googling would nail it, but my strong recollection from back then was that the players and fans invoked “laughing stock”.

PS: The CWS have had some excellent and noteworthy uniforms before and after 1976.

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Yeah, their current 1980’s-style home alternate uniform is still unlike anything else in MLB, but I do admit it’s grown on me over the years for it’s uniqueness. Full disclosure, I grew up in a White Sox household.

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Whatever the uniforms these days, I miss the stirrups.

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Dayn Perry’s occasionally pithy comments re current-ish baseball uniforms. A worthwhile, fun read. I don’t agree with his ranking of the current CWS uni; he ranks the Yankees’ uni much higher even though theirs are quite similar to the CWS’s. Perry doesn’t like ‘black’ apparently.

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So, did the guys get shirts or not?

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