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First up for the uniform change fashion show is the APBL. About of a third of its teams (5/16) would continue to wear white at home, so grey away uniforms were on order for them. Buffalo added to the list of grey away teams since they wear gold at home, but for the other ten teams it was colors at home and whites away.

APBL HOME UNIFORMS

A lot of the APBL home uniforms of the early 20th Century are now similar in design. Gone are the shields and crests teams like Brooklyn, Manhattan, & New York wore on top of their shirts, and now teams have their insignias either on the left side of the chest or just below the central lacing. New Jersey is the exception there, and the Philadelphia Tigers have the most unique look in the league due to their continued use of wide stripes.

APBL AWAY UNIFORMS

For the away uniforms, some teams chose to keep the same base design while using the away base color for the uniforms (ex: Boston, New York), some teams used their away jerseys to display where they come from (ex: Baltimore, Rochester), and some used the away jersey to come up with a different design altogether (ex: Excelsior, Pennsylvania).

Philadelphia again stands out because of their wide stripes, but they aren't the only ones. Pennsylvania's uniform look makes them the first team to use script lettering across the front of their jersey (In real life, the earliest known use of script lettering on a jersey was by teams in Oakland & San Francisco in 1902 - go here and scroll down to "Equipped with Script"). Buffalo's vertical jersey lettering makes them unique in the APBL in that regard, and Excelsior's exclamation - it means "ever upward" in Latin - was a standalone touch as well.

Next it was the MWBA's turn to show everyone what their teams could do with two sets of jerseys.