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On April 16, 1929, the Yankees opening game was cancelled due to rain while the Indians played, becoming the first team to wear numbers on the back. By the mid-1930s every team in Major League Baseball was wearing numbers on the back of jerseys except the Philadelphia Athletics. The Athletics later added numbers to their jerseys in 1939. [10]
Pinstripes were originally worn only on suit pants but upon being adopted in America during the 20th century they were also used on suit jackets. [2] The Chicago Cubs' baseball uniforms have had pinstripes since 1907 and they are recognized as the first Major League Baseball team to incorporate pinstriping into a baseball uniform [3] Many other ...
Baseball is unique among North American sports in that a team's non-playing staff (including managers, coaches, bullpen catchers, batboys, and ball boys) wear the same uniforms as their players with their own assigned uniform numbers; this is an vestigial remnant of when players on a team often held a dual role of being a player-manager.
The New York Knickerbockers were one of the first organized baseball teams which played under a set of rules similar to the game today. Founded as the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club by Alexander Cartwright in 1845, the team remained active until the early 1870s. [1] In 1851, the New York Knickerbockers wore the first ever recorded baseball ...
It was exactly 64 years ago that the first baseball game was broadcast on television in color. WCBS-TV in New York City broadcast the Boston Braves beating the Brooklyn Dodgers by an 8-1 score.
In 1992, the Yankees, along with all MLB teams, had an MLB logo added to the back of their caps for the first time. The following year, the Yankees became one of the last teams to wear a cap with a green underbrim. They did not switch to a gray underbrim until 1994, when most teams had been wearing a gray underbrim since the late 1980s.
The Baseball World Cup (BWC) was an international baseball tournament for national teams around the world, sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation (IBAF). First held in 1938 as the Amateur World Series ( AWS ), it was, for most of its history, the highest level of international baseball competition in the world.
In 1894 the Braves became the first major league baseball team to wear letterforms on their uniform caps when they added a monogram-style device to their front. [ 7 ] In 1897, the Beaneaters, as runner-up in the National League , took part in the 1897 Temple Cup championship series against the Baltimore Orioles , losing in five games.