Mets Jersey
The New York Mets, founded in 1962, returned National League baseball to New York following the departure of the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles and the New York Giants to San Francisco. The Mets' uniform was designed to incorporate elements of both departed clubs, with the Dodgers' royal blue becoming the Mets' primary color and the Giants' orange the trim color, along with the Giants' "NY" crest adopted as the new team's cap logo.[1] The original Mets uniform had a "clean and classic"[2] look that, while it has undergone a number of changes over the course of the team's history, has never been substantially revised. The basic template has always been a conventional short-sleeved baseball uniform with "Mets" in cursive script on a white pinstriped home jersey, and either "NEW YORK" or "Mets" on a gray road jersey, with the lettering and numerals in blue outlined in orange. The most notable variations were the "racing stripe" uniforms of the 1980s and early '90s, and the addition of black as a trim color along with black alternate jerseys and caps that were worn from 1998 through 2011. For 2012, in recognition of its 50th Anniversary, the club restored its classic look by removing the black trim from all of its uniforms and phasing out the black jerseys and caps. Since then the club has adopted blue alternate jerseys and caps but has generally worn its primary uniform in most games, home and away.
mets jersey
The primary home uniform for the Mets is a white uniform with blue pinstripes, a conventional button-down jersey with short sleeves, and tackle-twill lettering in royal blue outlined in orange. The jersey has the word "Mets" in cursive script across the chest, angled upward, with the player's number in sans-serif block numerals underneath the "-ets" script on the player's left side.[9][10] On the back of the jersey is the player's number in sans-serif block numerals, with the player's name radially arched above it in block lettering, sewn directly onto the jersey. On the left sleeve is a circular embroidered patch depicting the Mets' primary logo.
The road uniforms are grey with blue piping on the collar/placket and sleeve ends. Like the home uniforms, the road jerseys have blue tackle-twill lettering outlined in orange. The "NEW YORK" wordmark is radially arched across the chest, in Tiffany typeface, with the player's number below "YORK" on the player's left side. The uniform pants are grey with blue piping from the beltline to the cuff on each side.[11][12] The road jerseys feature the same numerals, lettering and sleeve patch(es) as the home jersey, and the uniforms are also worn with blue socks, belts, and undersleeves.
The Mets have two alternate home uniforms. One is a blue jersey with the "Mets" script, numerals and lettering in orange outlined in white, and orange piping on the collar/placket and sleeve ends (resembling the primary road jersey). This jersey is worn with either the pinstriped pants or plain white alternate pants with blue piping from hip to cuff on each side, and an alternate cap which has the orange "NY" logo crest outlined in white, but with no corresponding alternate batting helmet; the team uses its primary batting helmets with this uniform.
The other home alternate consists of a black jersey resembling the design worn in 1998, with the "Mets" script, numerals and lettering in blue outlined in white with an orange drop-shadow, and the primary-logo patch on the left sleeve, but without the blue collar/placket piping.[13] This uniform includes the all-black alternate caps and batting helmets that debuted in 1999, and plain white pants with blue piping from hip to cuff on each side.
The original Mets uniforms from 1962 were of essentially the same design as the team's current primary home and road uniforms.[18] The home uniform was white with blue pinstripes, "Mets" script in blue outlined in orange angled upward across the chest, with the player's number on the back of the jersey in blue block numerals outlined in orange, but no player name on the back and no numerals on the front. The cap was blue with the orange "NY" crest on the front panel, the same as the current cap but with a blue button on top of the crown. The road uniform also resembled the current road grays, with "NEW YORK" in Tiffany lettering radially arched across the chest, blue placket piping, and also with no player name on the back, no numerals on the front, and no piping on the sleeves. The primary logo appeared as a patch on the left sleeve of the road jersey in 1962, then was added to the home jersey in 1963.
Apart from the addition of numerals to the front of the jerseys in 1965,[19] underneath the wordmark on the player's left side, and some variations to the numeral typeface, this uniform remained largely unchanged through 1973.[20][21] A special New York World's Fair patch was worn on the left sleeve in 1964 and '65, in place of the Mets' primary logo.[22][23] In 1969 the logo patch was supplanted by a patch commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Major League Baseball.[24]
In 1978, the home and road jerseys changed from conventional button-down jerseys to Henley-style pullover jerseys, with two buttons just below the collar. The blue piping was removed from the road jerseys. Three thin stripes (blue-orange-blue) were added to the sleeve cuffs and collar on both home and road jerseys.[28][29]
In 1979, player names were added to the back of the jerseys, radially arched above the number in blue block letters outlined in orange. The letters were sewn onto an arched fabric "nameplate" (white on the home jerseys, grey on the road jerseys) that was in turn sewn onto the jersey itself.[2]
In 1982, the primary logo patch was removed from the left sleeve of both jerseys, and the road uniforms added thick "racing stripes" (blue with orange borders) on the shoulders from neck to sleeve cuff, on the sides of the jerseys from the armpit to the hip, and on the sides of the pants from the beltline to the cuff; the collar and sleeve-cuff striping were removed.[30] The two-button collar was replaced by a gray V-neck.[31] The home jerseys received the same treatment in 1983, adding the "racing stripes" along with a blue V-neck.[32][33]
In 1993, the color blue used on the Mets uniforms was changed to a slightly darker shade. The "racing stripes" were removed from both home and road uniforms, and the primary logo returned to the left sleeve. The "Mets" script on the home jersey was modified, and for the first time incorporated a "swoosh-tail" attached to the letter "s" underlining the wordmark. The road jersey had "New York" in cursive script, similar but not identical to the script used in 1987, and also with a "swoosh-tail" attached to the letter "k" underlining the wordmark. The road uniform had thin blue-orange-blue piping on the sleeve cuffs and on the sides of the pants from the beltline to the cuff.[47]
In 1994, player numerals were added to the front of the road jersey, below the wordmark on the player's left side, and the piping was removed from the road uniform.[48] Also in 1994, the primary-logo sleeve patch was modified to incorporate rectangular spaces above and below the circle, containing text commemorating the 25th anniversary of the 1969 "Miracle Mets."[49] On the right sleeve was a patch, worn league-wide, commemorating the 125th Anniversary of Major League Baseball.
The Mets returned to their traditional uniform design in 1995. The original "Mets" script was restored to the home jersey; the road jersey eliminated the white outlining, revived the original "NEW YORK" wordmark and blue placket piping, and added blue piping to the sleeve ends.[50]
In 1997, the blue button on the top of the caps was changed to orange. The Mets introduced an alternate home uniform that was plain white with no pinstripes, and blue piping matching the road uniform.[51][52] The team also introduced an alternate cap with a white crown and blue bill. The "NY" crest on the alternate cap was blue with an orange outline, and the button on top of the cap was blue.[51] The white cap was worn with the white alternate jersey on some occasions early in the season. Also in 1997, the team wore a patch on the right sleeve of all three jerseys commemorating the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's breaking of Major League Baseball's color barrier.
In 1998, a black alternate jersey was introduced, matching the white home alternate in style but with the "Mets" script, numerals and lettering in blue with a white outline and an orange drop-shadow.[53] The black jersey was worn as an alternate at home, paired with the white home alternate pants, and on the road.[54] The team also introduced a black alternate cap with a blue bill, blue button on top, and "NY" crest in blue outlined in orange, to be worn with the black jerseys.[55] The white alternate cap from 1997 was discontinued. A black drop-shadow was added to the script, numerals and lettering on the home white alternate[56][57] and road gray[58][59] jerseys.
In 1999, the black drop-shadow was added to the graphics on the home pinstriped uniforms,[60][61] and a road version of the black alternate jersey (with the "NEW YORK" wordmark) was introduced.[62] An alternate version of the Mets' primary logo, with a black skyline and "Mets" script in blue outlined in white with orange drop-shadow, was also introduced in 1999 and worn on the left sleeve of both black alternate jerseys. A second black alternate cap was added, this one with a black bill, black top-button, and "NY" crest in blue outlined in white with orange drop-shadow (matching the graphics on the black jerseys).[63] This became commonly known as the "solid black cap" or "all-black cap" while the 1998 black alternate cap, which was retained, became known as the "two-tone cap" or "hybrid cap" thanks to its blue bill. Also in 1999, for that season only, the player names were removed from the back of all three home jerseys.
Although the Mets continued to officially designate the pinstriped uniform as the club's primary home uniform, and the blue cap with the orange crest as the primary cap,[64] the reality of what was worn on the field from 1998 through 2009 was quite different. At some point during the 1998 season, the team began occasionally pairing the two-tone cap, which was designed to be worn with the black jerseys, with the white alternate jerseys and gray road uniforms as well. By the end of the 1998 season the two-tone cap had become the team's de facto road cap and was frequently worn at home with the white alternates as well as the black, but not with the pinstripes which still had no black trim. After 1998, the blue cap was worn only rarely and exclusively at home; the road gray jerseys were paired exclusively (except for one game in 2008) with the two-tone cap, and the black jerseys (home and road) were paired exclusively with the all-black cap. Although the home pinstriped and white uniforms were paired at various times with all three caps, in most home games during this period the team wore the white alternate uniform with the two-tone cap. All five uniforms were worn with black socks, belts, and undersleeves; the blue accessories appeared only with the blue caps. In addition, beginning in 2001 when the two-tone cap was designated as the official road cap and until it was discontinued after the 2011 season, the Mets were the only team in MLB to wear its designated road cap at home. 041b061a72