1993 New York Mets Swoosh Jerseys

Yesterday we talked about Casey Stengel’s original design for Mets uniforms.

I asked the question if it made the early 90’s “swoosh” jerseys more palatable…but I couldn’t quite remember the year and didn’t have a picture….

Osh41 sent this over

Sparks has left a new comment on your post “Casey Stengel’s Prototype New York Mets Uniform“:

“So does that make the underline Mets jersey they wore for one year in the 90’s (can’t find a picture right now, someone send it to me) less of an abomination?”

I guess I was feistier yesterday. Sparks said…

No.

Here’s the home jersey modeled by the quintessential Met of 1993, Anthony Young:

The underlining swoop alone was bad enough, but if you look closely, they also distorted the “M” somewhat. It looks a mile away from the “ets” when compared to the usual design.

Here’s the road version, of which I’m actually rather fond even though the 3-color sleeve striping is a little to 1970s/early ’80s for the rest of it:

These are pretty awful aren’t they?

If you like this kind of thing, I’m working on a piece about the Mercury Mets for Monday (it’s been 10 years). If you have any pics, anecdotes, comments please email me at shannon@metspolice.com and much thanks to several of you who have done so already.

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