deliver2david Posted July 9, 2006 Share Posted July 9, 2006 Sunday of '69: The Tigers will have a rare throwback day here Sunday, joining in on the Mariners' promotion to celebrate the 1969 Seattle Pilots. Detroit will don 1969 style gray road jerseys, featuring the city name in block blue letters across the front.Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fonz Posted July 9, 2006 Share Posted July 9, 2006 Nice to see teams celebrating baseball heritage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camden Crazy Posted July 9, 2006 Share Posted July 9, 2006 The Pilots are the current day Brewers. The Mariners have no affiliation with the Pilots, so it's kind of odd that they're doing this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJWalker45 Posted July 9, 2006 Share Posted July 9, 2006 Well seeing that Tampa Bay wore minor league uniforms and some MLB teams wear Negro League throwbacks, I think this is fine. Remember the Brewers and Braves wear milwaukee Braves uni's one game a year. Â Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirwuf Posted July 9, 2006 Share Posted July 9, 2006 The Pilots are the current day Brewers. The Mariners have no affiliation with the Pilots...Other than playing in the same city for chrissakes!Who do you think has more interest in remembering the Pilots, the fans in Seattle or in Milwaukee? Should Baltimore Ravens fans celebrate their Cleveland Browns heritage? Why don't the Twins wear Washington Senators throwbacks? Sometimes you gotta just use common sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swilson160 Posted July 9, 2006 Share Posted July 9, 2006 Watching this game right now on local TV.Pilots uniforms look great; the Tigers' ones do, too, except they're wearing the road caps with the orange logo and button; I don't think they wore these in 1969.Other nice touches: The large MLB logos on the sleeves, and the lack of an MLB logo on the back of the Pilots' hats. I also like that the M's have Pilots' batting helmets in addition to hats; sometimes teams get lazy and don't do this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deliver2david Posted July 9, 2006 Author Share Posted July 9, 2006 Watching this game right now on local TV.Pilots uniforms look great; the Tigers' ones do, too, except they're wearing the road caps with the orange logo and button; I don't think they wore these in 1969.Other nice touches: The large MLB logos on the sleeves, and the lack of an MLB logo on the back of the Pilots' hats. I also like that the M's have Polits' batting helmets in addition to hats; sometimes teams get lazy and don't do this. I'm a little disappointed to see the wrong orange logo on the caps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deliver2david Posted July 9, 2006 Author Share Posted July 9, 2006 Here's another look at the Tigers:Still no M's photos across the wire, yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winghaz Posted July 9, 2006 Share Posted July 9, 2006 Oh, those old Seattle Pilots uniforms are so sweet.And by the way, sure, the Pilots became the Brewers. But the Pilots are so Seattle that it's more proper for the Mariners to use their unis as throwbacks, not the Brewers. You look at those uniforms and you think of old Sicks Stadium with Mount Rainier in the background. You think of horrible baseball. You think of the book "Ball Four." There's nothing Milwaukeeish about the Pilots uniforms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAD! Posted July 9, 2006 Share Posted July 9, 2006 I saw, I came, I left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myartsaywhat Posted July 9, 2006 Share Posted July 9, 2006 The Pilots are the current day Brewers. The Mariners have no affiliation with the Pilots...Other than playing in the same city for chrissakes!Sometimes you gotta just use common sense. Amen my borother. Since the M's actually won, I think they need to stick with these outfits for the rest of the season. The babyblue road jerseys can make a great comeback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BBM Posted July 9, 2006 Share Posted July 9, 2006 Those are some gorgeous uniforms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SabreGuy Posted July 9, 2006 Share Posted July 9, 2006 Those are some SWEET f'ing unis! I am SO buying one of those caps. "You could put an empty orange helmet on the 50-yard line at Cleveland Browns Stadium and 50,000 fans would show up to stare at it."-Terry Pluto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cianfrocco Posted July 10, 2006 Share Posted July 10, 2006 The sad thing is that the Tigers actually could have worn the proper hats and helmets to go along with these jerseys. All they had to do was bring along their home sets, which are identical to what they wore on the road in 1969 (other than the mlb logo and grey under-bill). I can understand sometimes when teams say it would be expensive and not worth the trouble to make up special helmets for just one game, but how hard is it to pack one more box worth of hats and helmets on a road trip?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harperdc Posted July 10, 2006 Share Posted July 10, 2006 watched part of the game on TV. glad we beat the Tigers, and those uniforms (favorite touch: the bill of the batting helmets for Seattle ) are pretty sweet too.I am a big fan of the old-style upside-down trident aesthetic that the Mariners have to purchase as a throwback. So very cool, and still using powder blue to good effect too. I have one of those Franchise hats, it's awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ykiki5 Posted July 10, 2006 Share Posted July 10, 2006 watched part of the game on TV. glad we beat the Tigers, and those uniforms (favorite touch: the bill of the batting helmets for Seattle ) are pretty sweet too.I am a big fan of the old-style upside-down trident aesthetic that the Mariners have to purchase as a throwback. So very cool, and still using powder blue to good effect too. I have one of those Franchise hats, it's awesome.My favorite touch - the striped stirrups! Talk about something obscure that teams might overlook. I took my Dad to the game since we never got to go to a Pilots game back in 1969 when I was only 3, and as my parents later told me, "...we never thought that they'd actually LEAVE!"Another thing that impressed me - the uniforms actually fit the players instead of the oversized, baggy look seen waaaay too ofen with "turn back the clock" games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OMMF Posted July 10, 2006 Share Posted July 10, 2006 Auction being held for some of the game-worn gear:http://mariners.auction.mlb.com/or buy the real thing for yourself:http://shop.mlb.com/product/index.jsp?prod...rentPage=family Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedo Posted July 10, 2006 Share Posted July 10, 2006 The sad thing is that the Tigers actually could have worn the proper hats and helmets to go along with these jerseys. All they had to do was bring along their home sets, which are identical to what they wore on the road in 1969 (other than the mlb logo and grey under-bill). I can understand sometimes when teams say it would be expensive and not worth the trouble to make up special helmets for just one game, but how hard is it to pack one more box worth of hats and helmets on a road trip?! Agreed. I was very disappointed in that. The helmets maybe I could see, but caps should have been a must. Other than larger-than-'69 block letters and shoulder numbers (and there should have been more of an arched curve to DETROIT), the Tiger uniforms brought back lots of pleasant memories for me. Always loved those Pilots unis too -- I actually saw Seattle wear those crazy powder blue roads with the gold numbers that year at Tiger Stadium... "Old folks" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myartsaywhat Posted July 10, 2006 Share Posted July 10, 2006 Just got off the phone with family who went to the game and they were giving out Pilot hats and they scored me one. SWEET! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sodboy13 Posted July 10, 2006 Share Posted July 10, 2006 Kuds to the manufacturer of these unis (Majestic, I would guess) for actually using the correct block number font on the Pilots' jerseys. Mitchell & Ness has been incorrectly using the Red Sox font on these forever. Strangely, the slate blue roads use the correct font, or at least a decent approximation thereof.And to every player who hiked up his pants to show those wicked striped stirrups: thumbs-up. On 1/25/2013 at 1:53 PM, 'Atom said: For all the bird de lis haters I think the bird de lis isnt supposed to be a pelican and a fleur de lis I think its just a fleur de lis with a pelicans head. Thats what it looks like to me. Also the flair around the tip of the beak is just flair that fleur de lis have sometimes source I am from NOLA. PotD: 10/19/07, 08/25/08, 07/22/10, 08/13/10, 04/15/11, 05/19/11, 01/02/12, and 01/05/12. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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