I'm always excited to see a new uniform variant that I hadn't known about, so I was shocked to realize that for three entire seasons, the Orioles had abandoned the script "Orioles" on their home uniforms in favor of this IMO not-so-great block-lettered font, seen here on a 1967 Gene Brabender Topps card:
(Ironically, it's rather similar to the font used by the Pilots/Brewers [whom Brabender would play for in 1969-70] on their home unis.)
And while the look at the "woodcut-style" oriole on the 1964-1965 cap is good (shown off to even better effect on 'Bender's Pitchers Pack Orioles image…thanks,
pegasus27!), for truly dorky,
what-were-they-thinking? astonishment, I have to give it up for the 1963 uniform with the block "B" on the home caps. (The traditional 1954-1962 bird stayed on the road caps in 1963, before being replaced by the wood-cut in '64.) As seen in the 1965 Jay Publishing Brooks Robinson card, below:
Outside of the Jay Publishing set, I haven't seen any images of the 1963 debacle. (And it's only on 7 of the 12 cards in that set; Barber, Pappas, and Norm Siebern are wearing 1962 uni, while Bunker and Dave Vineyard are in the 1964 threads.) Anybody got some from any of the three years (1963-1965), preferably in color?
Oh, and while I'm asking for Orioles uniform variants, I suppose I should also request any pics of the 1968-1969 alternate uniforms with the vests over the black sweatshirts. (Although The Fleer Sticker Project has a lovely page dedicated to those, so they're not such a rare Bird [ouch! sorry] as these.)