I never read up on that, I didn’t realize it was for a short time
No pun intended? I sure wouldn't want to slide into a base in shorts.
The article to which I posted the link indicated that they had special inserts that went into their tube socks that protected them when sliding. I'm not sure that would be enough for me to confidently hit the dirt at full speed, but the article also says that they successfully stole 8 bases in the 3 games that they actually wore the shorts. Doesn't indicate whether they possibly were headfirst slides, though...
There used to be a sports store in Buckhead/Atlanta that was mainly for the old school hats/jerseys. That place was awesome and I got a few old Tigers/Braves hats in there back in the day.
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Nice, thank you for posting that
Some other iconic unis from that (late) 70s era...
1970's fashion was horrendous.
Best decade for Uniforms. We are family.
Its nice to see the teams bringing them back today.
Terry Bradshaw was AMAZING!!
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Hockey too! Long pants anyone ? Vancouver Canucks ?
Too much hair too 🤮😉
didnt the white sox play in shorts one year?
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
Yup, that's it. My goodness...
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
The White Sox actually wore the shorts for just a few games before ditching them.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/17159454/uni-watch-friday-flashback-shorts-came-chicago
I never read up on that, I didn’t realize it was for a short time
No pun intended? I sure wouldn't want to slide into a base in shorts.
Haha 👍. The first thing I thought of was it must have sucked sliding into second
The article to which I posted the link indicated that they had special inserts that went into their tube socks that protected them when sliding. I'm not sure that would be enough for me to confidently hit the dirt at full speed, but the article also says that they successfully stole 8 bases in the 3 games that they actually wore the shorts. Doesn't indicate whether they possibly were headfirst slides, though...
Knee is what I was worried about, I always did a kind of angled '4' with my knee side down hard.
Rickey would have been able to handle the shorts just fine
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
There used to be a sports store in Buckhead/Atlanta that was mainly for the old school hats/jerseys. That place was awesome and I got a few old Tigers/Braves hats in there back in the day.
Love the old uniforms