Lukas: A Cincinnati Reds uniform history mystery
From SABR member Paul Lukas at Uni-Watch on October 6, 2017, with mention of SABR members Tom Shieber and Marc Okkonen:
Time for a trip down another rabbit hole today, people. This one involves a four-season stretch in Reds history, from 1968 through 1971.
Let’s start by consulting Dressed to the Nines. If you look at Marc Okkonen’s renderings for those four seasons, you’ll see that the “Cincinnati” lettering and front numbers on the road jerseys has white outlining. It’s a little hard to see on those thumbnail images, but it’s more apparent if you click on one of the individual years. I asked Hall of Fame curator Tom Shieber, who administers Dressed to the Nines, if he could check Okkonen’s original renderings, and he confirmed to me that Okkonen included white outlining on the road typography for all four of those seasons.
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But reader Brice Wallace recently pointed out something I hadn’t been aware of: When the Reds made it to the 1970 World Series, they wore road jerseys without the white outlining. Here are some photos from that Series.
Read the full article here: https://uni-watch.com/2017/10/06/a-cincinnati-reds-history-mystery/
Originally published: October 9, 2017. Last Updated: October 9, 2017.