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Dressed to the Nines: A History of the Baseball Uniform. Introduction · Parts of the Uniform · Timeline. Uniform Database · Activities · Credits. Online Exhibits · National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
- Uniform Database
The Hall of Fame has scanned Marc’s original drawings and...
- Introduction
Your first baseball game. There is an excitement, an...
- Timeline
The Cincinnati Red Stockings are the first baseball club to...
- Activities
Think you know all there is to know about baseball uniforms?...
- Credits
Special thanks: Marc Okkonen, author of Baseball Uniforms of...
- Parts of The Uniform
Dressed to the Nines: A History of the Baseball Uniform...
- Numbers and Names
Bill Veeck, the brash baseball executive whose “innovations”...
- Patches and Armbands
Memorial armbands and markings of one sort or another have...
- Uniform Database
Jun 19, 2019 · I decided to start by interviewing my longtime friend Tom Shieber, senior curator at the Baseball Hall of Fame, who built the Dressed to the Nines online uniform exhibit, including a uniform database based on Okkonen’s mock-ups and drawings, that has appeared on the Hall’s website since 2003.
The Hall of Fame has scanned Marc’s original drawings and incorporated them into a searchable database presented here. Marc’s images end with the 1994 season, but thanks to Major League Baseball Properties, “mannequins” for uniforms from 1995 to date are also included in the database. Finally, additional research by the staff at the ...
(“Dressed to the Nines,” a baseball uniform database, is available on the Baseball Hall of Fame’s website. See link below.) After collecting McCarthy postcards for a few years, I began to wonder if the cards could also be dated by using the reverse style.
1882. The rules of 1882 called for the use of multi-colored uniforms denoting each player’s position. For example, scarlet-and-white-striped shirts and caps were worn by first basemen, while shortstops wore solid maroon. Only the color of the stockings was used to differentiate one club from another. Derisively called “clown costumes ...
Dec 9, 2021 · In 2013, the NLBM teamed with a group of local Kansas City Royals baseball fans to recreate that spirit by putting on their “Sunday Best” to watch a Royals game. A new tradition, “Dressed to the Nines,” was born. The stylish event is now paired with the Royals annual “Salute to the Negro Leagues,” and has easily become the most ...
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