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Originally Posted by brobby05
They did have the same uniforms in 1973-74, but it went further than that. They wore the light charcoal gray jersey (with standard varsity numbers) and pants from 1973 to 1981 but they switched to the front white paneled caps in 1975 adorned with various looks of the cartoon bird emblem within that time period as shown here.
Pics: Elrod Hendricks-1974, Brooks Robinson-1975-76, Tim Stoddard-1979-81?, Gary Roenicke-1979.
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The Brooksie pic can't be from '75, because that's Steinbrenner Stadium in the background. 1975 would have been at Shea. So '76 or perhaps '77, I'd say. Likewise the Hendricks can't be from any later than 1973, as that's the Great Grey Lady of the South Bronx in the background. (Original version Yankee Stadium, I mean.)
Btw, I was looking up Brooks at B-R (to be sure he was still playing in '77) and I (re-?)discovered that his middle name is "Calbert". Which makes it rather appropriate that he played his entire career in Baltimore, given that the state of Maryland was originally a Crown Colony granted by Charles II to Cecil
Calvert, Lord Baltimore.
It's like Hayden Penn pitching 20 years for the Phillies, or somebody named "Oglethorpe" having a Hall of Fame career in Atlanta, I suppose.