Remember Nick the awesome jerseys guy? Â He hooked us (thats you and me Mr. Reader, not a royal “we”) with this….
Shannon,
I thought I’d provide you home and road pics from that 2-button pull-over era (front and back of each jersey).
Home: Kelvin Chapman
Road: John Pacella
Some interesting tidbits about this style —
All were made by Rawlings.
1978: Only year of this era where no names were worn on the backs of home and road jerseys. This is the LAST road jersey the Mets would ever wear on field withouta name on back (in 1999, the team experimented with the number only on the back of home jerseys, but kept the names on the roads)
1979: Names on backs were added to both homes and roads. The jerseys featured nameplates for the first time.
1982: The road jersey changed (to the style most associated with the 1986 championship year) but the home jersey remained the same 2-button pull-over style. Two notables for this final year of the 2-button pull-over… 1. the font on the back of the jersey was altered, and the size of the nameplate changed. 2. the skyline logo sleeve patch was removed from the jersey. Skyline patches would later return in 1993.
Very awesome. Â Yeah we cheated and slipped into the 80’s a bit. Â Believe me 1979 and 1982 were the same: awful.
What I learned this week is there’s a lot of Piazza Generation readers of the blog, and all this stuff is lost on you. Â Maybe next time I will do 00’s week.
