MLB power rankings: 30 best baseball uniforms of all time

24. 1950 Philadelphia Phillies (Home)

The Philadelphia Phillies currently utilize a classic looking uniform set at home that ranks among the best in the American League. However, the franchise has looked better, if only slightly.

The Phillies are one of the oldest franchises in professional sports, have played in the same city since 1882 and have played under the same nickname almost as long (the Phillies officially changed their name from Quakers in 1890). However, the franchise has had several different color schemes and uniform combinations through the decades.

The earliest logo on record is a blue block P, which changed color and style through the first two decades of the club, to black, then red to black again, and eventually green in 1910. The Phillies implemented an Old English P in the 1920s, but eventually stumbled on a stylized P in the 1930s that popped up again in the late 40s before the team finally put it all together uniform-wise.

Red became the team’s primary color in 1911, and other than 1938 (when the team used a yellow P), and 1942-45 (when blue was the top team color), it has remained. When the stylized P meshed with red as the team’s primary color in 1950, the perfect Phillies uniform was finally born. That season, the Whiz Kids also put it all together on the field, winning 91 games and the NL pennant.

Philadelphia kept the classic uniforms for two decades before moving to a more modern P, and introducing powder blues (the second best powder blue uniforms in baseball behind the Expos), before returning to a 1950-ish uniform set still in use today.