To coincide with the team’s new-ballpark opening next season, the Minnesota Twins are debating whether to yet again tweak with the team’s myriad of uniform designs.
To coincide with the team’s new-ballpark opening next season, the Minnesota Twins are debating whether to yet again tweak with the team’s myriad of uniform designs.
Not that there’s a lot of choice right now for the Twins. Sometimes it’s a little hard to keep track of what uniform is supposed to be worn on a specific day, especially this season after the introduction of a classic uni design based on the original 1961 look. Home modern whites, home retro, road blue, home sleeveless…and let’s not even discuss the ill-fated home reds designed solely for Sunday games.
So we’re cheering for any simplication of the Twins uniform situation. From this article, it sounds like players are leaning toward the classic look. Interestingly, they want something clean and wouldn’t mind if names were omitted from the backs of the jerseys. (There’s an interesting reason why original Twins owner Calvin Griffith didn’t put uniform numbers on the original unis: he felt fans should know who the players were, without the assistance of a name on the jersey.) From what we’re hearing from team offices, we’re guessing the Twins will more toward an almost-fulltime usage of the class TC logo. (More trivia for you: the original TC logo was designed when the team was moving from D.C. to Minnesota and the working name of the team was the Twin Cities Twins. Minnesota business leaders prevailed upon Calvin to change the name to the Minnesota Twins — to better draw fans from greater Minnesota — and he went with the suggestion, but stayed with the cap design because it was already a done deal.)
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