Mailbag: Mets Uniform Choices, Ignoring Mets History and the Mets Museum

Jackie Robinson night and the Rotunda brought up a lot of frustration from Mets fans about the team ignoring their own history.

One of the main things the Mets Police hate are the black uniforms.

The following is direct form the Mets own website.

The Mets’ colors are Dodger blue and Giant orange, symbolic of the return of National League baseball to New York after the Dodgers and Giants moved to California. Blue and Orange are also the official colors of New York State.

So…on a night when the Mets honored a Dodger, did they wear the official color Dodger Blue hats? Nope..they wore black. Why?

The below was a comment posted to Mets Police article Why Are Mets Uniforms a State Secret?

They should go back to what they were wearing when they first entered the league: no names on the back, no number on the front, and darker hue of blue, and the current road uniform without piping.

No black…you can sell anything you want in stores, just keep it off the field. And by the way this is the year to do it (2009) as they enter into a new park that is suppose to emulate Ebbets Field.

I agree. Sell whatever the heck you want. Just don’t wear it. It also makes no sense to have names on the back every day of the year, except when everyone wears #42. If you didn’t need them on JR night, you never do. It looks better without them. People know who #7 is. If not the PA announcer, Howie Rose and Gary Cohen can tell them.

More comments from readers:

So glad that someone else feels the way I do. I felt I had to reply to this today because I cannot believe they opened their new stadium last night and did not wear the pinstripes. Okay, it wasn’t the black uni. They wore the snow white but they wore that horrible cap with it. I just don’t understand this organization.

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It was a disgrace opening the new stadium with a team in three-tone hats and Stay Puft uniforms. Please join “NY Mets, Take Back the Black” onFacebook. Let’s get together and force Wilpon to respect the legacy of our team, not just his team the Brooklyn Dodgers.

The “hybrid” cap (blue/black) is ugly. I actually hate it more than the all-black hat from the Bobby V days.

Why don’t they ever have “honor the New York Giants Day?” Then the Mets could wear black and orange stuff like the hat on the left. That’s right…the Giants never existed in Wilpon-land….but I digress.

Why would we honor the Giants when we don’t even honor the Mets? There’s nearly a half century of history now.

What’s going to happen in ten years when that Jackie Robinson loop has played for the 10 millionth time. Maybe then they can add some Mets stuff to the video. Maybe they could hang some Mets stuff up around the park.

Fred Wilpon did tell the Daily News that a Mets museum is coming although there are no plans and no timetable so I will believe it when I see it.

Mets fans, this week has been great. As the Mets Police site grows, I realize there are lots of fans like us. We’d all like the Mets to be honorable, be honest (cough, obstructed seats) and dress like the traditional Mets.

Blue and Orange. Never black.