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Here then is the history of the Brewers’ Uniforms …
#1A & B.
1969 The Milwaukee Brewers franchise began in 1969 as an expansion team
in Seattle, and was known as the Seattle Pilots. After finishing last in the
six team American League West with a record of 64-98 (actually a respectable
record for an expansion team), the team was in financial disarray and moved to
Milwaukee where it was renamed the “Brewers”. Milwaukee had enjoyed a major
league team from 1953 to the end of 1965, when the Milwaukee Braves moved to
Atlanta.
The first two uniforms we see on
the poster are the Pilots home and road jerseys. On both tops the lettering is
a very non-traditional script and has a certain “futuristic” look. Note also that
there is a patch on the front of the jersey as opposed to the more traditional
patch location on the sleeve. The patch is a baseball with pilot’s wings.
The home jersey, which says
“Pilots”, also features numbers on the front of the uniform. Uniform numbers
first made their appearance on the front of a uniform in 1952 - the Brooklyn
Dodgers were the first team to wear uniform numbers on the front of their
jersey. The Braves followed suit in 1953, and the Reds joined in beginning in
1956. The 1916 Cleveland Indians actually wore a uniform number on their
sleeve, but it wasn’t until the ’52 Dodgers that the number made it to the
front.
Although barely visible, the
commemorative patch on the right sleeve of each jersey, which features the MLB
batter logo, was worn by all Major League teams in 1969 in honor of the 100th
year of professional baseball. The patch celebrates the Cincinnati Red
Stockings’ 1869 team that was the first openly professional team and went 65-0
in a nationwide barnstorming season.
#2A & B.
1970 In the Brewers inaugural season, the city of Milwaukee welcomed
back major league baseball with open arms – as noted earlier Milwaukee was home
to the major league Braves from 1953 to the end of 1965, when the team moved to
Atlanta.
The Brewers began play in 1970 at
Milwaukee County Stadium, and they would stay there until 2001 when Miller Park
was opened. The team crawled out of the A.L. West basement, finishing fifth in
the standings with a 65-97 record (9 games ahead of the woeful White Sox). One
reason for optimism was the play of third baseman, Tommy Harper. Harper led the
team in batting (.296), home runs (31) and RBI (82), while finishing second in
the American League in both stolen bases (38) and doubles (35).
The 1970 Brewers’ uniforms owe a
little of their design to the 1969 Seattle Pilots, but gone is the “futuristic”
lettering and the numbers on the front of the home uniform (the home uniform is
the white jersey, the road uniform the blue jersey). Of note about the road
uniform: for years baseball tradition was that a team would wear their nickname
on the front of their home uniform, and the city name on the front of their
road uniform. But in the late 60’s and early 70’s many teams (Oakland A’s,
Minnesota Twins, Washington Senators, California Angels, Atlanta Braves, St.
Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates and Montreal Expos), went against baseball
tradition and displayed the teams’ nickname, not hometown, on their road
uniform.
#3.
1974 Although the Brewers finished last or second last in their division
every season from 1970 to 1974, in 1974 a ray of hope appeared in the person of
an 18 year old rookie shortstop named Robin Yount. In 1974 Yount batted .250 in
107 games and the Brewers inched their way closer to a .500 season with a
best-ever mark of 76-86.
Please note: After starting out
life in Seattle in 1969 in the AL West, and staying there for their first two
seasons in Milwaukee, the Brewers shifted to the AL East in 1972. This was
perhaps a harbinger of things to come as the nomadic Brewers would later leave
the AL East for the brand new AL Central (in 1994), then leave the AL entirely
for the NL (they made the move in 1998).
This home jersey is of a
double-knit style that most major league teams succumbed to during the 70’s and
early 80’s. The jersey is a pullover style, made of stretchy, synthetic
material. The pants were called “Sans-a-Belt”’s because the elasticized
waistline eliminated the need for a belt. The 1970 Pirates were the first
double-knit sans-a-belt team, and the Cards and Astros joined them in 1971. By
1975 two thirds of major league teams had succumbed.
Note also that the stripes on the
sleeve have gotten much thicker since the 1970 jersey, and note also that
uniform numbers have reappeared on the front of the jersey.
#4.
1978 Finally – the Brewers finish above .500! In fact, Brewers smash
their previous best season record (1974’s 76-86 mark) and finish with a
remarkable 93-69 record, good for third place in the AL East, just 6˝ games
back of the Yankees.
1978 is also notable because it
was the season that rookie 2nd baseman Paul Molitor joined shortstop
Robin Yount in the Brewers’ infield. Molitor hit .273 in 125 games this season.
Pitching was also a major improvement, led by Mike Caldwell who finished with a
stellar 22 and 9 record. Things were looking up and would only get better.
This season would mark the first
appearance of “Milwaukee” on the front of the team’s road uniforms. As noted
earlier, baseball tradition calls for a team to wear their nickname on the
front of their home jerseys, and the city name on the front of their road
jerseys. The Brewers (and several other teams in the 70’s) bucked this trend
but finally fell to tradition in 1978.
While not pictured, the 1978 home
uniforms adopted a pinstripe style (see the 1981 uniform).
#5.
1981 1981 was an unusual season in baseball - because of a player strike
partway through the season, the season was split in two halves, with the
division winner of the first half matched up against the division winner of the
second half.
In an extremely tight race in the
AL East, the Brewers finished the second (post-strike) season in first, one
game ahead of the Orioles and two games up on both the Yankees and Tigers. Thus
the Brewers (who finished both seasons with a combined 62-47 record) make their
first appearance in the post season, playing a best of five Division Playoff
series against the AL East first half winners, the Yankees.
With the Brewers on the verge of
elimination down 2 games to 0, they stormed back to win the next 2 games in New
York, thus forcing a fifth and deciding game, also in New York. Milwaukee took
a quick 2-0 lead in game five, only to have the Yankees take the lead in the 4th.
The Yanks would go on to win the game 7-3.
The off-season would see Brewers’
relief pitcher Rollie Fingers showered with both the Cy Young Award and the
American League MVP honor, the first time in major league history that a relief
pitcher won both awards in the same season.
Note that this home uniform
features pinstripes. The brewers adopted the pinstriped look in 1978. Gone is
the yellow trim around the arms, while the yellow and blue trim around the
collar and waist are now just blue.
#6.
1982 Not skipping a beat, the 1982 Brewers finish the season atop the AL
East, with a 95-67 record. The batting leaders were Robin Yount, who hit .331
and 29 homers, Cecil Cooper who hit .313 with 32 dingers, and Paul Molitor, who
chipped in with a .302 average and 19 home runs. Pete Vukovich led the way for the pitchers
with an 18-6 mark and a 3.34 ERA, and every starter finished above .500
(Caldwell went 17-13, Haas 11-8, McClure 12-7, Slaton 10-6 and Randy Lerch
8-7).
In the post-season the Brewers
came up against the California Angels for the pennant in a best of 5 series. It
was a sense of déjŕ vu as the Royals dropped the first two games in California
(they went down 2-0 to the Yankees the season before), only to come back and
win the next two games at home, forcing a fifth and deciding game in Milwaukee.
With the Angels up 3-2 in the 7th,
the Brew Crew scored two runs off a Cecil Cooper single to take a 4-3 lead. The
Brewers shut down the Angels after that and hung on for the win to collect
their first American League pennant. The Brewers were also the first team to
win a Championship Series after trailing 2-0.
Their next opponent was the
National League champion St. Louis Cardinals. The World Series saw the 1st
two games played in St. Louis, followed by three in Milwaukee, with the final
two back in St. Louis.
Milwaukee took the first game in a
rout 10-0 only to lose the following two games. The Brewers then won the next
two games to go up 3 games to 2 and only needed one more victory to claim their
first World Series Championship.
In game six, however, the Cards
crushed the Brewers 13-1, forcing a deciding game seven in St. Louis. The
Brewers were up 3-1 going into the bottom of the 6th when the Cards scored 3
runs of their own to take a 4-3 lead. Try as they might, the Brewers were
unable to score again and the Cards added 2 more runs in the 8th to take the game 6-3 and
deny the Brewers their first ever championship.
Molitor and Yount again led the
team in the World Series, with Molitor going 11 for 31 for a .355 average, and
Yount going a remarkable 12 for 29 for a .414 average.
This road jersey is virtually
identical to the 1978 uniform, featuring “Milwaukee” written across the chest
with the uniform number below the team name.
#7.
1988 After losing seasons in ’84, ’85 and ‘86, the Brewers turned it
around in ’87 (when they finished 3rd with a 91-71 record) and ’88,
when they again finished third (with an 87-75 mark), only two games behind the
AL East Champion Red Sox, and one behind the Tigers.
Several Milwaukee players finished
the season among the American League leaders. Paul Molitor was third in stolen
bases with 41 steals and fifth in batting with a .312 average. Robin Yount was
also a standout finishing with a .306 average and tied for the league lead in
triples with 11. Pitching was also strong as 16-9 Teddy Higuera led the league
with a 2.45 ERA (tied with Allen Anderson of Minnesota) and closer Dan Plesac
had 30 saves and a 2.41 ERA in just 52 innings of work in 50 games.
The road uniform is now gray,
something that began in 1986. The patch on the left sleeve is a round patch
with a bat separating the initials H.K., in memory of the Brewers’ former
manager Harvey Kuenn who passed away in February 1988. Kuenn was a fan favorite
and managed the team in the 1982 (when they came within a game of winning it
all) and 1983 seasons.
#8.
1992 The Brewers finished the 1992 season with a stellar 92-70 record,
good for second place in the AL East, 4 games back of the eventual World Series
champion Blue Jays. One of the season’s highlights was the fact that on
September 9th Robin Yount became the 17th player to record 3000 hits.
The future Hall of Famer was also the 3rd youngest ever to do so (he
was a week shy of his 37th birthday), behind Ty Cobb and Hank Aaron.
Yount would retire at the end of 1993 after 20 seasons with the Brewers, with a
lifetime average of .285; 3,142 hits in 2,856 games.
This pinstriped home uniform has a
“swoosh” under the team name, which was added in the 1990 season. This underline
“swoosh” style was introduced to baseball by the 1932 Cubs, and has been worn
by many teams since then. Note also that a Brewers’ “M” and “B” ball glove logo
is on the collar of the undershirt. The trend to adding embellishments to the
undershirt began in baseball in the late 80’s.
#9.
1994 The commemorative patch on the right sleeve is in honor of the 125th
year of professional baseball. The patch has the Major League Baseball logo and
“125th Anniversary” on it, and celebrates the Cincinnati Red
Stockings’ 1869 team that was the first openly professional team and went 65-0
in a nationwide barnstorming season.
In this, the year of professional baseball’s 125th Anniversary,
there would be no World Series for the first time in 90 years, when a player
lockout in August 1994 put an end to the season. The Brewers were sitting in 5th and last place in the AL
Central with a 53-62 record.
The 1994 Brewers have radically
changed the look of their uniforms, as we see on this “3rd jersey”. A “3rd
jersey” is a concept that became commonplace by the mid 90’s. Most 3rd
jerseys are worn occasionally at home as well as on the road, giving a team a
third option as to what uniform to wear. And of course, the addition of a third
jersey adds to the options fans can buy, thereby increasing apparel revenues
and ultimately benefiting the team. More recently, teams have begun adding 4th
and even 5th jerseys to their roster of uniform combinations.
A new logo adorns the front of
this 1994 3rd jersey, while the lettering style across the chest has
been totally revamped. The patch on the left sleeve is in honor of the team’s
25th anniversary in Milwaukee (1970-1994), while
the commemorative patch on the right sleeve (although barely visible) is in
honor of the 125th year of professional baseball. The patch has
the Major League Baseball logo and “125th Anniversary” on it, and
celebrates the Cincinnati Red Stockings’ 1869 team that was the first openly
professional team and went 65-0 in a nationwide barnstorming season.
#10.
1997 Milwaukee finishes the season 3rd in the American League
Central with a 78-83 record. This would actually be the Brewers’ last season in
the AL. In Major League Baseball’s realignment, the Brewers opt to move the
National League Central division.
Here’s a bit more about the
Brewers’ penchant for changing their division: After starting out life in
Seattle in 1969 in the AL West, and staying there for their first two seasons
in Milwaukee, the Brewers shifted to the AL East in 1972. This was perhaps a
harbinger of things to come as the nomadic Brewers would later leave the AL
East for the brand new AL Central (in 1994), then leave the AL entirely for the
NL (they made the move in 1998).
The patch on the sleeve of this
road uniform marks the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking
baseball’s color barrier. All MLB teams wore this patch in honor of Jackie
Robinson and all he achieved, and all MLB teams retired his number 42 - the
first time in the history of the big four North American sports (MLB, NFL, NBA,
NHL) that a number has been universally retired (hockey has since done it with
Wayne Gretzky’s #99).
#11.
2001 This season would mark the opening of a brand new home for the
team. Miller Park has a brick facade on the outside, making it look like a ballpark
from the past, but the future is inside, as a retractable roof slides into
place to shelter fans from both rain and cold.
But despite their stunning new
home, the Brewers finish the season with a 68-94 record, good for fourth in the
six team NL Central, 25 games behind the Houston Astros. The leaders on the
field included Richie Sexson who hit .271 with 45 home runs and 125 RBI, and
Jeromy Burnitz who hit .251 with 34 homers and 100 RBI. Attendance at Miller
Park in its first season would reach 2,811,040, in sharp contrast to the
1,573,621 fans who attended the final season at County Stadium.
The Brewers have another new
uniform look, as we see on this home jersey. This style was introduced for the
2000 season. They have gone back to the older script on the chest, and have a
stylized “M” on the left sleeve. The patch on the right sleeve (although barely
visible) commemorates the new ballpark by featuring a diagram of the stadium
from the outside, topped by the heading “Home to Heroes”.
For true Milwaukee ball fans, 2001
was a sad year because it marked the passing of Milwaukee Braves great Eddie
Mathews. Matthews, who hit 512 home runs, played in the majors from 1952 –
1968, including the Braves’ 13 seasons in Milwaukee (1953-1965).
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