MLB: Power ranking the best uniforms for 2015
By Will Osgood
1. Los Angeles Dodgers
Maybe this is just an ode to my home state, or to Vin Scully–the greatest baseball announcer who has ever lived. I don’t know, but the Dodgers seem deserving of this honor. There is something to be said for tradition.
Granted the Dodgers have played with their uniforms a bit over the years. And (gasp!) they even wore blue alternates for a road game in Pittsburgh in the 1990s back when the Pirates still played at Three Rivers Stadium.
Not long ago, when Mark Grudzielanek was the Dodgers’ shortstop, the team even sported a road jersey with “Los Angeles” across the front. Frankly, it looked pretty good and held to my normal standard for road jerseys. Of course they still do, as the picture below shows. But the ones I’m referencing had more outline on it, and in some ways looked weird, though still worked for the era. These are better though.
Yet I am OK with the Dodgers sporting “Dodgers” across the front of their road jerseys because it fits in with tradition. It doesn’t work for most teams. These are the ones you’re more likely to see them wearing.
I’m yet to figure out how they decide which ones to wear. It would be weird if the Dodgers gave their pitchers the option, but perhaps they do, as so many franchises now do.
The home uniforms have undergone no discernible changes in my lifetime (28 years). And they are delightful.
The Dodgers’ tradition is great. Their uniforms are great. Baseball is great. I love it, them, all of it.