I never knew that McGraw was such a big dude.

Randy Johnson, Mark McGwire, and Rod Dedeaux

Evers was unusually short and skinny for his time. McGraw was short, but much beefier, and put on weight after he retired.

Photograph was taken in 1910. Do they look like a 37 and 27 year old men?

Photograph was taken in 1910. Do they look like a 37 and 27 year old men?

9 out of 10 doctors agree that walking 5 miles uphill each way to school takes 10 years off your life.

#2, that is an awesome picture. Thanks for posting it.

I wonder what year that was? Randy wasn't on that 84 team with McGwire, Clark and Larkin, was he?

I was expecting to see at least one clinched fist when I clicked to see the image.

BTW, that Dedeaux picture shows how to wear your stirrups. It's cool to see players now and then trying to bring back the stirrups, but they always wear their pants to the knee, which means they show way too much stirrup.

As a Cubs fan with a soft spot for the Giants (particularly the NY version), I have a print of this on my wall.

The two of them were natives of upstate New York -- Evers was from Troy, and McGraw was from outside Cortland.

Truxton, to be precise.

Which had a decent "town team" when McGraw was a kid.

It's cool to see players now and then trying to bring back the stirrups, but they always wear their pants to the knee, which means they show way too much stirrup.

Isn't the problem that they don't actually wear stirrups? They wear colored socks, which isn't the same thing. When I think "stirrup" I think of the white socks (traditionally called sanitary socks) with a colored stirrup vertical down the middle. I can't remember the last time I saw someone wear those.

Most wear the colored socks with horizontal stripes around the top (if any stripes at all).

I'm not sure if I can make this work, but here's what I'm talking about: Barry Zito's socks

Gold star to me! (only took me three edits and some code theft from #2's post above)

Are we sure that those aren't stirrup socks (pulled all the way down)?

He wore them in Oakland.

Wow, McGraw looks amazingly like Tom Wilkinson.

Are we sure that those aren't stirrup socks (pulled all the way down)?

I guess it's just semantics, but when I think of stirrups, I think of 90% being the thin vertical and 10% at the top going around the calf (can often be 100%/0%. The Zito Oakland picture is about 10% vertical stripe and 90% going around the shin and calf. The Zito SF picture is 0% stripe and 100% around the ankle, shin and calf. I don't love the pants to the shoe look, but I don't really love the 100% dark sock look, either. I really wish someone would bust out the traditional stirrup look. At least for a 70s or 80s turn back the clock night.

In looking at some pictures from the 40s and 50s, some of the socks do look like the 10%/90% like Zito Oakland. I guess I prefer the 90/10 because that's what they wore when I was a kid (and what I wore in little league and high school).

Has Paul Lukas done a column on this? Seems like the most obvious of uniform columns...

Photograph was taken in 1910. Do they look like a 37 and 27 year old men?

In general, nutrition and health made people look a lot older. Does this man look 36 to you?

#3 Still looks to me like Evers borrowed somebody's uniform.

#3 Still looks to me like Evers borrowed somebody's uniform.

If you look at many team photos from the deadball era, you'll often notice that the uniforms aren't uniform by any means.