Link: the Wilpon Script.

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1. I think the Wilpon Script was designed to spread the letters out a bit to get the joint between the M-e across the placket when the team switched back to button-down jerseys in 1991.

   It was clearly in use on the 1995-97 drop-shadowless version. And it looks like the pre-1993 button-down racing stripe jersey had it too.

   And look here: This is the 1974 road jersey, which also appears to have the Wilpon Script.

2. I love precise detail, so I went back through every yearbook for the last 20 years or so…here is what I found:

   1) The problems started, as you might expect, when the stupid, idiotic underline debuted in 1993. That made the existing wordmark obsolete and the skyline logo very inconsistent with the jersey.
   2) Sanity prevailed 2 years later…in 1995, the underline was gone forever. The Mets were so proud that the jersey was restored, they decided to make the wordmark look slanted, like it does on the jersey, maybe as a subliminal message to get people to buy jerseys. That effort produced the dreaded Wilpon Script…it is clearly seen on the bottom of almost every page in the 1995 yearbook. It has nothing to do with making room for black dropshadows. It has been lurking for over 15 years already.
   3) In 1998, the Mets decided to add the black…”Believe in Black” the yearbook says.
   4) In 1999, they decided that the skyline logo needed a midnight version and at that time they decided to drop the little NY…it was too hard to do on the midnight version I guess.

   I believe the The Wilpon Script on jerseys does not seem to be too prominent until 2003, when it became very obvious.

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