“It gets dark,” Chris Goering deadpanned. The 52-year-old Walsh, in a wool uniform, searched through the brush for the baseball. A teammate jogged over from center to help. Finally, there it wa ...

Baseball players haven’t always looked cool. Before performance fabrics, brimmed caps, and even numbered jerseys came along, old-school athletes wore wool pants, short shorts, and bow ties on ...

Pity the wool baseball cap. It didn’t stand a chance, utterly alone as it was, with vanquished woolen sportswear littering the playing fields all around it: football jerseys, hockey sweaters ...

Deborah Young brought her father’s old wool baseball uniform from the days when he played sandlot ball for the Scotland Eagles. It was in good shape, except for a few holes that could have been ...

Our regular wool baseball flannel that we use for our retail jerseys worked perfectly. The felt used for lettering these days has less wool content than what was used in the 1940s, but that's not ...

When it comes to Worcester and baseball, there’s a thread of continuity, observed soon-to-be Worcester Red Sox President Charles Steinberg. Worcester’s baseball history includes the first ...

The ’66 uniforms were made of wool flannel. “We think these uniforms reflect the timeless tradition of Braves baseball,” said Braves President John Schuerholz. “In honoring our past we ...

Wool had been phased out in the early 1960s ... Confused? For more info on baseball uniform fabrics, look here. • Yet another first: The uniforms were made from a cotton-nylon knit fabric ...

Hal McCoy gets a break from baseball this week as the All-Star ... not like those old all-wool uniforms teams used to wear that caused players to lose 10 pounds a game during an August day game.

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