This year the Cardinals are slated to play the Giants at historic Rickwood Field for a Negro League throwback game. There is no doubt this will be an awesome event at an awesome historic site. I always love when there are Negro League tributes incorporated in, mainly because the NNL at certain points in history … Continue reading Inauthentic Negro League Unis, as usual
Reposting the lead from Uni-Watch this morning.. Yes the Nike rollout has been disastrous, the worst is behind us, there's no way this could get worse. Wait! It gets worse! The gray shirts are a different color than the gray pants. Anyone else hearing circus music continually playing in their head? Photos below stolen from … Continue reading The Grays Don’t Match
Amongst the changes of the new 2024 uniforms the font for the player names is also changing. We've seen this in photos in the last few weeks, but now we're here to show them graphically to get the best comparison. In the image below, the letters on top are from 2023 and prior years. The … Continue reading 2023 v 2024 letter comparison
Derek Goold on Twitter sent out a picture of the front of the jersey, our first look. My first impression? It's wrong in so many ways. Let's cover all the points we can see. First, let's start with the shirt buttons. Historically with the Birds on the Bat the buttons have been even spaced down … Continue reading Our First Look at the 2024 Birds on the Bat
We got a quick glimpse from Jeff Jones on Twitter of the BACK of the jersey. Very reminiscent of the 1928 World Series. Players are pretty unhappy. Miles Mikolas says they also don't fit right; pants are no longer customized, and the fabric is a very different consistency. "They look cheap," another player said. https://twitter.com/jmjones/status/1757410006247342288?s=12&t=VjfO6v3EoAZhWPfo2DgDBw
Uni-Watch got the scoop this morning about the 2024 Batting Practice Caps. The caps are yet to appear on MLB shop or on New Era's website as of ~11AM Central time. Here is the Cardinals BP cap shown in the Uni-Watch lineup. Ah. Finally. A Classic look. I like the look of this cap a … Continue reading 2024 Batting Practice Caps
The new 2024 Spring Training caps have been revealed and are on sale at the MLB shop website. Take a look. Let's take a look at some details before we get to any opinions. The new pattern of the hat is this checkered looking texture. The cap is nearly identical to the Sunday caps, with … Continue reading 2024 Spring Training Caps
This is the 1928 National League Champion St. Louis Cardinals. The Cardinals in the regular season wore two different style uniforms. The home uniform featured a single bird on a bat, while the road uniform featured the Birds on the Bat. When the team reached the World Series, they brought out new uniforms with a … Continue reading Championships: 1928
Further compiling the uniforms, logos, graphics, hardware, anything uniform & logo related to each championship year… This is the 1926 World Champion St. Louis Cardinals. In the regular season, the team wore bland home uniforms, and pinstriped Birds on the Bat road uniforms. When the Cardinals reached the World Series, they received 3 sets … Continue reading Championships: 1926
Further compiling the uniforms, logos, graphics, hardware, anything uniform & logo related to each championship year... This is the 1888 American Association Champion St. Louis Browns. Based on a number of photographs, we know the uniforms above are what the Browns wore in the 1888 season, however we do not know if new uniforms were … Continue reading Championships: 1888
I wanted to compile and talk about the uniforms, logos, graphics, hardware, anything uniform & logo related to each championship year, one year at a time. I’ll roll these posts out in subsequent days. This is the 1887 American Association Champion St. Louis Browns. We have a number of accounts that describe what the team … Continue reading Championships: 1887
I wanted to compile and talk about the uniforms, logos, graphics, hardware, anything uniform & logo related to each championship year, one year at a time. I’ll roll these posts out in subsequent days. This is the 1886 American Association and World Champion St. Louis Browns. https://cardinalsuniformsandlogos.com/styleguides/1886browns/ We have plenty of photography, and know at … Continue reading Championships: 1886