MLB power rankings: 30 best baseball uniforms of all time

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Apr 19, 2017; Toronto, Ontario, CAN; Toronto Blue Jays second baseman Darwin Barney (18) celebrates the win with Toronto Blue Jays first baseman Kendrys Morales (8) at the end of the ninth inning during a game against the Boston Red Sox at Rogers Centre. The Toronto Blue Jays won 3-0. Mandatory Credit: Nick Turchiaro-USA TODAY Sports /

13. Toronto Blue Jays (Home)

The Toronto Blue Jays produced a nearly perfect uniform set when the franchise began play as an expansion team in 1977. The simple logo, which featured the head of a blue jay placed in front of a baseball with a maple leaf by its ear, worked well. Because of the era in which the club began, even the pullover jerseys and powder blue road uniforms (Toronto didn’t play in road grays until 1992) looked fine. The lettering and number style was perfect.

The Blue Jays attempted to modernize in 1997, making red a larger part of the color scheme (somewhat understandably as one of just two Canadian MLB teams at the time), but the cartoon bird with a maple leaf bicep tattoo the team introduced in 2001 missed the mark.

Silver is an underutilized color in the big leagues, and the Blue Jays tried to claim it in 2004 while also moving to black as a primary color and a more vibrant blue as an accent. The color combination may have been a hit for an expansion team born in the 2000s, but for a team nicknamed Blue Jays (even though the lettering on Toronto’s jerseys said only “Jays” at home from 2004-11), it didn’t really look right. Hungry for simpler times, the team wore throwback powder blue uniforms on occasion from 2008-10.

Whether nostalgia took over, or the team finally realized it had hit the nail on the head 35 years earlier, the Blue Jays made the move back to blue and white in 2012. There were even able to do something rare: invoke the spirit of the original uniforms, and make a subtle improvement to the logo. Adding a white panel cap and helmet option in 2017? (Kisses fingers).

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