Right Team, Wrong Uniform!?by stevejrogers - 12 cards (Last updated on Jul 10, 2020) |
But there are a few long tenured players whom seemingly spent their entire time with a franchise that made only one or two different changes.
And sometimes, whether its just before the sweeping change to a long standing uniform style happens, or the player's last year or so was played after the franchise made a change from a long standing style; it does seem weird to see the player in a different style, even if its all with the same franchise you'd associate the player with.
Note: This does not include any Retro/Turn Back The Clock/Tribute sort of one time only or an alternative style for specific home games.
As well as returning players as managers, coaches, Spring Training Instructors, etc.
Or, as often was the case, a card depicting a retired player in an Old-Timers Day, or like event, clad in the team's uniform style of the day.
1. 1975 Topps #640 Harmon Killebrew
Something seems off when seeing Killebrew, a Minnesota Twin icon of the 1960s in the garb that the Twins would wear during the late 1970s and into the 1980s. |
2. 1984 Topps #483 Fergie Jenkins
The home uniforms the Cubs wore when Fergie returned for the 1982 through 1983 seasons were pretty much the same style as it was Jenkins' time from 1966-1973 (pullover with a solid blue trim, but the basic look was the same), but seeing Jenkins in those road softball uni blues is a bit off putting. |
3. 1984 Topps #740 Tom Seaver
As great as it must have been for Met fans to see The Franchise back on the Shea Stadium mound as a Met since his 5 and change year exile in Cincinnati. It does seem odd to picture him in that racing stripe era jersey of the mid-1980s-early 1990s Mets.
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4. 1988 Classic Red #200 Phil Niekro
To be fair, Knuksie started his illustrious Brave career in this uniform style in 1964. But by 1968 the Braves were shedding what they brought over from Milwaukee in 1966. So for most of his time in Atlanta, the Braves would be clad in various different uniform styles, mostly trying to make blue their dominate color. That is until his final game ever return to the Braves in 1987. |
5. 1982 Donruss #568 Harold Baines
Oddly enough, Baines did help close the door on the previous error...I mean era in White Sox uniform style history, with the final three seasons of the collared softball unis. |
6. 2001 Pacific #90 Harold Baines
Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame Class of 2019, Harold Baines can be considered the mirror Frank Thomas for the White Sox, as he would wear the current day garb upon both of his brief returns to the White Sox in 1996-1997 and finally in 2000-2001. This after wearing the variations of the Sox' 1980s attempts to add red to their color scheme, which did include what Frank Thomas debuted in. |
7. 1982 Topps Stickers #170 Carlton Fisk
Not homegrown like Harold Baines, but another White Sox HOFer of the 1980s joined the team just as the white and navy blue style was on its way out. |
8. 1991 Classic #51 Carlton Fisk
While Baines left, and returned, Fisk managed to be with the team long enough to still be around when the softball styles with red were finally dropped. Fisk would play his final three years in pinstriped style! |
9. 1991 Fleer #138 Frank Thomas
When one thinks of The Big Hurt Frank Thomas, its probably him clad in the sleek monochrome, and pinstriped at home, uniforms the White Sox have had since 1991.
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11. 1998 Bowman #100 John Elway
John Elway may have won his two Super Bowls in the uniform the Broncos still have to this day in 2018, but the changeover was made literally during the last two seasons of his 16-year career. The bulk of which with the orange crush style uniforms and the bronco charging out of D on the helmet logo. |
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Opps, hit delete by accident. Good point about Baines @switzr. Which reminds me of Carlton Fisk wearing the last vestiges of the softball unis with collars. | ||
As a Buccaneers fan, I thought of Warren Sapp and Mike Alstott. They caught the end of the Orange era, and were huge stars of those real good teams in Crimson. There haven't been too many NFL teams do a huge uniform overhaul in the modern era, but Elway's Broncos and the Bucs sure come to mind. Of course NBA is the complete opposite, with frequent changes, but I thought of John Stockton. This kind of stuff is what makes card collecting so much fun! | ||
Yeah, I’ll add Stockton & Malone soon. Actually Olajuwon also works as well. Good call on Sapp & Alstott!
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https://www.tcdb.com/ViewCard.cfm/sid/5402/cid/1233399/1997-98-Leaf-74-Kirk-McLean
For hockey fans Kirk McLean is most known for the skate era Canucks logo. Didn’t last long with the new look though. https://www.tcdb.com/ViewCard.cfm/sid/4366/cid/962951/2000-Bowman-177-Shaun-Alexander Associated more with the double blue Seahawks.
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