MLB power rankings: 30 best baseball uniforms of all time

26. 1978 Montreal Expos (Away)

No one wore powder blue better than the Montreal Expos. As a whole, the trend of wearing powder blue (or yellow, orange, black or red) instead of gray on the road was one of the worst in baseball history. The Phillies, Blue Jays and Royals were among those that pulled it off best, but powder never looked good for most teams. The exception was the Montreal Expos.

The Expos had one of the most unique caps in baseball, utilizing a pinwheel-like design from 1969-91 that included a white front panel, red on the sides, and blue in the back and on the bill. The tri-color M logo was also one of the most distinctive in the major leagues. The team utilized a solid blue cap from 1992-2004, when the team left Montreal for Washington.

For some reason, the strangeness and boldness of the club’s logo and uniforms worked. The Expos always looked good, regardless of whether or not they were in pure white or pinstripes at home, gray on the road during the franchise’s final decade in Canada, or with bold red and blue piping that ran from the pants legs, up the side of the jersey and onto the shoulders, as was the case during the entire decade of the 1980s. But, the uniform combination that fit the club best was its original road powder blues.

Thanks to more subtle piping, the Expos earliest road uniform was more classic than the bulky stripes of the ‘80s. The move to a red number on the front of the jersey in 1978 was a slight improvement over the original blue, and perfected the uniform.