MLB power rankings: 30 best baseball uniforms of all time

Sep 13, 2016; Bronx, NY, USA; Los Angeles Dodgers left fielder Howie Kendrick (47) watches New York Yankees center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury (22) round the bases after hitting a home run in the seventh inning at Yankee Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Noah K. Murray-USA TODAY Sports /

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CIRCA 1960’s: Second baseman Joe Morgan #8 of the Houston Astros swings and watches the flight of his ball circa late 1960’s during a Major League Baseball game. Morgan played for the Houston Colt .45’s/ Astros from 1963-71 and 1980. (Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images) /

25. 1971 Houston Astros (Home)

The Houston Astros have long been an innovative franchise, and not always in the best way. Playing in the Astrodome was one thing, the tequila sunrise uniforms the team wore from the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s were quite another. Simply, the Astros were one of the franchises that got it right from the beginning. Well, the beginning after the franchise changed its name from the Colt .45s in 1965, that is.

Blue and orange is a good combination for a sports team, and Houston used it from the franchise’s beginning in 1962. When the team changed its name to Astros, the club put its best logo – which featured a shooting star – on the home jersey, and kept things simple with the rest of the look.

In 1971, the club switched to an inverse jersey logo, switching “Astros” to orange with a blue outline, swapping out the blue star for an orange one and making the tails blue instead of orange – which is also a fine look. But, if something’s not broken, there’s really no reason to fix it, and in 1975, the team began a journey of strange uniform decisions.

The move to navy blue and gold (an underutilized color in the major leagues) was fine, and the modern star logo and lettering made sense. We’re talking about space, after all. Switching to red and black (and gold) and script lettering wasn’t a terrible decision, but never really looked right, either.

In 2013, Houston returned to the original navy blue and orange, but missed an opportunity to return to the perfect uniform by using boring blocky lettering instead of the slimmer and more modern font used in the ‘60s and early ‘70s.

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