Custom Authentic Jerseys

Aside from the advent of the Boston Red Stockings first introducing the knickerbockers and showcasing their red stockings as a part of their baseball uniform stockings took drastic changes in look. Styles through out the 1900’s included diamonds and stripped stockings ranging in color combination as well as stirrups intended to create distinction from NFL uniforms.

Stockings also aided in spawning some ball club names because of the distinct changes to their uniform and focus on the look of their stockings including the Red and White Stockings as well as the Detroit Tigers as they were nicknamed since somewhere around 1895 becuase of the stripped stockings they wore but would not enter their first major league game until 1901.

Now long gone they days of the pull over fold down collared shirts with a front laced or buttoned jersey but in 1906, the New York Giants became the first team to play without collared MLB jerseys.

It had been nearly a sixty year tradition by then of wearing collared jerseys that resembled something along the lines of a bankers’ outfit. But after this debut by the Giants the Major League players were finally freed from the eternal annoyance of the collared shirt.

During the 1906 Giants season that was rocked by an earthquake the New York Giants strove to a 96 game winning record.

During baseball’s formative era of the 19th century, the 1868 Cincinnati Red Stockings were not only the first publicly announced professional team and became the first team to wear knickers as a part of the baseball uniform rather than pants spawning a major change in the baseball uniform. This was then considered revealing by players and fans, but the new stockings and short knickers quickly caught on and was embraced by ballplayers. The new look spawned the teams nickname ‘Red Stockings’ and established the color of Cincinnati marking an important point in baseball history with influences on the Boston Red Sox and Braves as well.