Cubs’ opener vs. Phillies, April 4, 1989 or The day I thought my TV was on the fritz. The Phillies quietly bid farewell to the powder blue era and usher in the grey era. I remember watching this game thinking something was wrong with my TV. Fortunately they only wore this version for a few years.
June 10, 2023
Cubs’ opener vs. Phillies, April 4, 1989 or The day I thought my TV was on the fritz. The Phillies quietly bid farewell to the powder blue era and usher in the grey era. I remember watching this game thinking something was wrong with my TV. Fortunately they only wore this version for a few years.
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I personally was fine with the road uniforms the Phillies wore from 1989 to 1991.
Notice how fast the game is even without a pitch clock. Batter is right back in the box. Pitchers right back on the rubber. Mound visits are fast. Pitchers aren’t running their hands through their hair or rubbing their arms between pitches…
This is how baseball is played. The players have no one to blame but themselves for the new rules.
Damn these are kinda sweet. Our road greys would look better with maroon than the red
Omg yes I remember my brother asking me if they changed their uniforms because they looked gray now and I was like nah it must be the color on the TV. It was so much easier to be unaware of changes like that before the internet and social media. Now they would announce it in January with a big reveal and tweeted by every beat writer.
Also just want to take a moment and to appreciate Schmitty’s sweet HR swing. So sad that he would shock everyone the following month and retire immediately. I can’t imagine this was a normal thing for a ball player to do but fans sure showed their appreciation for him by voting him in as the starting 3B after he had already retired. Today of course the top (or formerly top) players often announce their retirements before the season and then spend the year getting celebrated; and now mlb can also add them to the all-star rosters if they are not selected on their own.
These look so much better than the powder blues. I love the maroon and love the script P and Phillies logos but my main reservation about ever going back to them is the loathsome return of powder blue. This would be perfect
I totally forgot the years the meatball logo went grey on the road. Had completely built it in my mind that the powder blues didn’t go away until the logo shift a little later.
Mitch Williams up in the bullpen. The last opening day for Mike Schmidt. Joe Girardi’s MLB debut. This is a fantastic first 2 minutes of baseball.
By the way I didn’t get the express written consent of Major League Baseball.
It was no secret that they were ditching the powder blue road uniforms. They had run their course by then.
Those grays were pretty sharp though.
I do not remember these Jersey’s. Just did the math. I was in college and don’t remember much from this period.
Extremely underrated uniforms. I love maroon and gray together.
The most notable thing that happened in these uniforms was Tommy Greene’s no hitter against the Expos on 5/23/91.
Haven’t seen those uni’s for a good minute! Never really took to them, but they worked well for the time. What bugs me is how we wear the powder blues at home for Throwback Thursday’s. The powder blues were away uniforms and the white with maroon pinstripes were home.
Why they have them flipped is a head scratcher.
Williams making it exciting with bases loaded. Yeah, that’s the Williams I remember. Then he strikes out the last three. If only we had seen that Mitchie-Poo in Game 6.
Also, the Cubs looked like they were wearing pajamas to me.
This picture would have to be pretty rare. Schmidt would retire within a couple of months, meaning that he would have only worn these road grays a handful of times.
15 comments
I personally was fine with the road uniforms the Phillies wore from 1989 to 1991.
Notice how fast the game is even without a pitch clock. Batter is right back in the box. Pitchers right back on the rubber. Mound visits are fast. Pitchers aren’t running their hands through their hair or rubbing their arms between pitches…
This is how baseball is played. The players have no one to blame but themselves for the new rules.
Damn these are kinda sweet. Our road greys would look better with maroon than the red
Omg yes I remember my brother asking me if they changed their uniforms because they looked gray now and I was like nah it must be the color on the TV. It was so much easier to be unaware of changes like that before the internet and social media. Now they would announce it in January with a big reveal and tweeted by every beat writer.
Also just want to take a moment and to appreciate Schmitty’s sweet HR swing. So sad that he would shock everyone the following month and retire immediately. I can’t imagine this was a normal thing for a ball player to do but fans sure showed their appreciation for him by voting him in as the starting 3B after he had already retired. Today of course the top (or formerly top) players often announce their retirements before the season and then spend the year getting celebrated; and now mlb can also add them to the all-star rosters if they are not selected on their own.
These look so much better than the powder blues. I love the maroon and love the script P and Phillies logos but my main reservation about ever going back to them is the loathsome return of powder blue. This would be perfect
I totally forgot the years the meatball logo went grey on the road. Had completely built it in my mind that the powder blues didn’t go away until the logo shift a little later.
Mitch Williams up in the bullpen. The last opening day for Mike Schmidt. Joe Girardi’s MLB debut. This is a fantastic first 2 minutes of baseball.
By the way I didn’t get the express written consent of Major League Baseball.
It was no secret that they were ditching the powder blue road uniforms. They had run their course by then.
Those grays were pretty sharp though.
I do not remember these Jersey’s. Just did the math. I was in college and don’t remember much from this period.
Extremely underrated uniforms. I love maroon and gray together.
The most notable thing that happened in these uniforms was Tommy Greene’s no hitter against the Expos on 5/23/91.
Haven’t seen those uni’s for a good minute! Never really took to them, but they worked well for the time.
What bugs me is how we wear the powder blues at home for Throwback Thursday’s.
The powder blues were away uniforms and the white with maroon pinstripes were home.
Why they have them flipped is a head scratcher.
Williams making it exciting with bases loaded. Yeah, that’s the Williams I remember. Then he strikes out the last three. If only we had seen that Mitchie-Poo in Game 6.
Also, the Cubs looked like they were wearing pajamas to me.
This picture would have to be pretty rare. Schmidt would retire within a couple of months, meaning that he would have only worn these road grays a handful of times.