Clipping:The argument for parti-colored uniforms
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| Date | Sunday, January 15, 1882 |
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| Text | It is very probable that the American Association, at their March meeting in Philadelphia, will adopt the parti-color position uniform adopted by the League. It is generally recognized to be a good idea, and one which is sure to become popular. Frequently three or four fielders run together to make a play. One handles the ball, but scorers differ as to which one it was, so thoroughly are the players jumbled together. All being uniformed alike, it is hard sometimes to say whether the second baseman, short-stop, left-fielder, middle-fielder or third baseman caught a short fly. Under the new plan every position in every club will be uniformed alike from the knees up. The distinguishing difference between players of different clubs will be in the color of their stockings alone. Thus the Chicagos will wear white stockings, the Bostons red, the Providence gray, &. The pants in every Club will be white. In this respect the seventy-two uniforms will be alike. The shirts, belts and caps will be made to suit positions. Thus there will be four solid colors. All the catchers will wear blue shirts, belts and capts, all the left fielders will wear red shirts, belts and capts, all the third basement will wear grat and white striped shirts, caps and bilts, and the second basement black and yellow strikes, and so on, each position differing. The stripes run up and down in the shirt, and around in the cap and belt. A. G. Spalding & Co. will manufacture the uniforms. The material had to be manufactured to order, and it was secured only by a good deal of trouble. It comes from a Quaker factory somewhere up in Iowa. The gentlemen have ordered enough so as to provide the American Clubs also, if the latter fall in with the plan, and will make the uniforms at the same price charged to the League Clubs. The American Association act upon a desire to please the public, and not in an envious or spiteful manner, and therefore recognize the good policy of this idea, which sprang up in the League. The plan is Al. Spakding’s, having been fermenting in his fertile brain for several years. |
| Source | Cincinnati Commercial Tribune |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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