Pro Baseball Uniform History

History is best learned when broken into stages. In this section we want to study the unifrom shirt history of MLB baseball how we go to what they look like today, what they were made up of throughout time and look at the evolution of each component we see.

The photo above in the banner is from Wikimedia Commons. This is a photograph of a photo of the Maple Leaf Baseball team in 1874. The team is in uniform and sitting on benches in a stadium with covered bleachers behind with spectators. The players are in light coloured uniforms with maple leafs on the right side of their shirts. The men are all wearing caps, one of the men's caps is striped. The men have dark coloured belts around their waists and argyle style socks. The men in the front row are holding baseball bats. There are also four men in suits. On the far right in the front row is George Sleeman. In the back row in the middle in a suit is Thomas Goldie. The spectators in the back are mostly women but there is one man and a few children. On the back, in pen is "Mr. Sleeman & Sunley 1874". A black stamp "F. Grundy" is also stamped on the back.