This jersey lasts only the one year before it’s replaced in 1983 with another blue alternate.ġ983: The “racing stripes” which were added to the road jersey in 1982 are carried over to the home pinstripes.Ī new road alternate jersey is adopted, the design of the jersey stays basically the same as the previous alternate, the colours on the “Mets” wordmark are now reversed, silver is the main colour and orange the trim. A road alternate jersey is introduced, it’s blue with “Mets” in orange with silver trim across the front. Both the general concept of these original home and road jerseys, and the ballcap, are still worn today.ġ974: The Giants-style “New York” wordmark is removed from the road grey jersey, replaced with a “Mets” script in the same style as the home jersey.ġ976: In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the National League, the New York Mets play a handful of games while wearing a pillbox-style cap, similar to the ballcap players would have worn in the late 19th century.ġ982: Orange and blue “racing stripes” are added to the shoulders of the road grey jersey. The ballcap was blue with an orange “NY” on the front using another logo borrowed from the old Giants. For road games “NEW YORK” was arched in a similar style as worn on the old New York Giants road grey jerseys, now updated to appear in blue and orange for the Mets. Aside from the “NY” mark and a slight colour adjustment, the Mets continue to use this logo to this day 53 years later.Īt home the Mets wore a white jersey with blue pinstripes, “Mets” in blue with an orange outline across the chest. The new logo features an orange and white baseball with a skyline of New York City in royal blue, “Mets” is scripted across the skyline in orange with white trim and a small orange “NY” monogram is to its left. The skyline features several real-world buildings such as Brooklyn’s Williamsburgh Savings Bank, and Manhattan’s Woolworth Tower, Empire State Building, and United Nations. The Mets first logo in team history came as a result of a contest, the winning entry designed by cartoonist Ray Gotto netting him a cool $1,000 cash prize. The name “Mets” was shortened from “Metropolitan Baseball Club of New York”, and the colours an homage to the old Dodgers (blue) and Giants (orange). Enjoy:ġ962: Four years after both the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants move to the west coast, National League Baseball returns to New York as the league expands for the first time adding clubs in New York and Houston. Following up on our logo and uniform history post for the Kansas City Royals… here’s their opponents in the 2015 World Series, the NL Champion New York Mets.
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