Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
September 04, 2004
Double Dark

The Athletics and Blue Jays are both wearing dark shirts today; the A's are dark green and the Blue Jays look black. I find this very confusing. When I turned on the TV the A's were in the field and the Blue Jays were running the bases. At first, I couldn't tell which team was which. Rule 1.11(b) states:
A league may provide that (1) each team shall wear a distinctive uniform at all times, or (2) that each team shall have two sets of uniforms, white for home games and a different color for road games.

It's my opinion that the league provide for (2), or at least prohibit both team from wearing dark jerseys.


Posted by David Pinto at 04:49 PM | Uniforms | TrackBack (0)
Comments

We're not talking basketball or football here. The batter and pitcher are from different teams, and the baserunners are the ones without gloves.

Posted by: Al at September 4, 2004 08:52 PM

gee al, good thing dave's got you around. that was a very good and helpful explanation and i'm sure that even someone of dave's limited understanding understood. whatever would he do if you weren't here?

Posted by: lisa gray at September 5, 2004 08:14 PM

While your comment made me laugh, Lisa, I think Al's got a point. In baseball, you don't really ever get the kind of large-numbers scrums that you have to sort out by uniform color, like you would in the lane in basketball or on the line of scrimmage in football.

Here's a question for David: How long did the confusion last?

My prediction: Not long. It was just an initial weirdness that was quickly gotten over.

Posted by: Jason Wojciechowski at September 11, 2004 08:39 AM