MLB power rankings: 30 best baseball uniforms of all time
6. San Francisco Giants (Home)
Also like a few other teams listed behind them in the rankings, the Giants earned a spot in our top 10 after they strayed from a beautiful classic look in the 1970s, ‘80s and ‘90s before returning to a classic style, and even making a slight improvement.
When the franchise relocated to San Francisco from New York in 1958, the Giants wore practically the same home jersey, which featured the team name in black with an orange outline. The team swapped the colors for a three-year period from 1973-76 before making the switch to a new style altogether in 1977. It was a disappointing uniform period in San Francisco, though the change in 1983 was arguably worse, especially the bubbly effect the font gave the team’s numbers.
Finally, San Francisco returned to its classic jersey font in 1994, though the letters were made slightly bolder. The bold lettering was an improvement over the previous 16 years, and even looked better than the original.
In 2000, the club moved from Candlestick Park (its home since 1960) to what is now called AT&T Park. Though a brand new stadium, AT&T Park was built in vintage fashion, including a non-symmetrical outfield layout, and with brick featured prominently. Capitalizing on the vintage feel of the new ballpark, the Giants made the change to a cream-colored home uniform, which can come off a gimmicky with the wrong team, but is a perfect fit with the Giants.
Add the striped socks Sergio Romo preferred during his time in San Francisco, and there are few better big league uniforms.