[Terry D]

The Pittsburgh Pirates altered their uniforms twice during the 80's. For the 1985-86 seasons, they dropped the yellow cap and the fancy yellow-and-black mix and match stuff they had been wearing and adopted a gray road outfit to go with a white home outfit. The cap was the box-style yellow-on-black. After wearing that combination for two years, the Pirates adopted a completely new style with a conventional black cap. With all these changes, it isn't easy to find pictures of all the Pirates of that era in each variation. Here are three of them. First is John Candelaria, here in the road gray adopted for '85 and before his trade to the Angels later that season. Second is Don Robinson in 1987, wearing the orthodox cap and the new outfit before his trade to the Giants that year. Finally is a picture from 1981, the only color shot I have ever seen of the elusive Doe Boyland wearing the No. 12 he played in that year. The quality of the shot is not very good in the full magnification. The Candelaria and Boyland photos are from ebay seller signatures4u!, while the Robinson photo is from mainlineautographs.