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White Sox to wear 1972 red throwback uniforms for Sunday home games

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When Detroit and newly acquired slugger Prince Fielder come to U.S. Cellular Field in mid-April, the White Sox will counter with memories of former slugger Dick Allen.

The Sox announced Wednesday they will wear the red pinstriped jerseys with the Sox script across the front and red caps for their 13 Sunday home games, starting April 15 against the Tigers.

Those uniforms were worn by the Sox in 1972, when the team was led by Allen, the American League most valuable player who hit a league-leading 37 home runs, 113 RBIs and had a .420 on-base percentage and .603 slugging percentage.

...“Being a part of those early 1970s White Sox teams, with a leader like Chuck Tanner and exciting players such as Dick Allen, Wilbur Wood and a young Goose Gossage, remains one of the fondest times in my career,” former Sox slugger Bill Melton said. “The red pinstripes and red baseball cap will bring back a lot of great memories for Sox fans from that generation.”

Repoz Posted: January 25, 2012 at 09:28 PM | 23 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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1. AndrewJ Posted: January 25, 2012 at 09:45 PM (#4045843)

Me like. Wonder if they'll keep the gigantic numbers on the back of the jerseys without a nameplate (like the 1950s-early 1970s Phillies).

Growing up in the late 1970s it seemed the White Sox changed their uniform styles more than most clubs, but they've stayed with their current look since they left Comiskey over 20 years ago.

2. TerpNats Posted: January 25, 2012 at 09:46 PM (#4045846)

Now bring back the Sox sky blue road unis from '72 (red and light blue are the colors on the Chicago city flag, remember) and all will be right with the world. Oh, and bring McCuddy's back to the South Side...

3. Eddo Posted: January 25, 2012 at 09:47 PM (#4045847)

I'm a fan. Always liked the red ones.

Though I'm glad they've kept the current look so long. Hopefully, it sticks around forever.

4. Srul Itza Posted: January 25, 2012 at 09:50 PM (#4045851)

So does that mean they will also be bringing back the shorts?

Scroll down for a trip down (repressed) memory lane.

5. TerpNats Posted: January 25, 2012 at 09:51 PM (#4045853)

So does that mean they will also be bringing back the shorts?

Not until 2016.

6. Foghorn Leghorn Posted: January 25, 2012 at 10:27 PM (#4045868)

That is fantastic!

7. Bruce Markusen Posted: January 25, 2012 at 10:58 PM (#4045886)

Those red pinstripes are the best uniform the White Sox have ever had. They bring back memories of Dick Allen, Bee Bee Richard, Beltin' Bill Melton, No Neck Williams, and Wilbur Wood. I wish the Sox would ditch the black color scheme and go back to the red pinstripe fulltime.

8. AndrewJ Posted: January 25, 2012 at 11:04 PM (#4045894)

I wish they'd go back to wearing actual white socks.

9. Howie Menckel Posted: January 25, 2012 at 11:13 PM (#4045899)

examples:

http://www.amazon.com/Topps-Gossage-Chicago-White-Baseball/dp/B004OTXH4E

http://www.amazon.com/Topps-Allen-Chicago-White-Baseball/dp/B004OTXJJW

http://www.sears.com/topps-1973-topps-455-bill-melton-chicago-white/p-SPM2958094401

http://www.sears.com/topps-1973-topps-150-wilbur-wood-chicago-white/p-SPM2958063901

If you young guys have never heard of Wilbur Wood, take a gander at his bb-ref page.
You can be shy of your 50th birthday and still remember this guy do things like start both games of a doubleheader. Must seem hard to believe to many....

10. YR Denies Jesus Montero Posted: January 25, 2012 at 11:56 PM (#4045924)

Yeah, they don't make 'em like Wilbur Wood anymore.

11. Mike Webber Posted: January 26, 2012 at 12:19 AM (#4045935)

I had no idea you could buy baseball cards from Sears!

12. vortex of dissipation Posted: January 26, 2012 at 01:06 AM (#4045961)

Yeah, they don't make 'em like Wilbur Wood anymore.

To say the least. His career as a starter is something else, but before that he spent several years as a left-handed, knuckleball pitcher relief ace, which I think is pretty unique...

13. The Long Arm of Rudy Law Posted: January 26, 2012 at 01:55 AM (#4045970)

Wilbur Wood pitched more innings that year than anybody has in the last 95 years, and he would have had another two or three starts if it hadn't been a strike year.

14. Accent Shallow Posted: January 26, 2012 at 06:19 AM (#4045996)

If you young guys have never heard of Wilbur Wood, take a gander at his bb-ref page.
You can be shy of your 50th birthday and still remember this guy do things like start both games of a doubleheader. Must seem hard to believe to many....

Sure, but who was the last pitcher to do that before Wood? I'm willing to bet it was pre-1910.

15. Russ Posted: January 26, 2012 at 07:05 AM (#4045997)

I had no idea you could buy baseball cards from Sears!

Seriously... what an amazing revelation.

16. asinwreck Posted: January 26, 2012 at 09:30 AM (#4046023)

Carlos May gives it thumb up!

And Wilbur Wood goes knees-up!

Ouch.

17. chris h. is a member of Team Keefe! Posted: January 26, 2012 at 11:53 AM (#4046095)

Seriously... what an amazing revelation.

Sears isn't selling baseball cards. The seller is someone else.

It's like Amazon's marketplace sellers.

18. SuperGrover Posted: January 26, 2012 at 01:30 PM (#4046201)

The Sox do uniforms very well.

19. asinwreck Posted: January 26, 2012 at 03:00 PM (#4046287)

The Sox certainly do uniforms often, at least until late 1990. Hope they won't bring back the powder blue atrocities that followed the red pinstripes.

20. AndrewJ Posted: January 26, 2012 at 03:01 PM (#4046292)

Sure, but who was the last pitcher to do that before Wood? I'm willing to bet it was pre-1910.

You bet wrong. Don Newcombe started both games of a doubleheader for the Dodgers in September 1950. He won the first game and got a no-decision in the second (which the Dodgers eventually won).

21. Bob Evans Posted: January 26, 2012 at 07:46 PM (#4046601)

I think I'd rather have Wilbur Wood than Wilbur Wood's uniform.

22. Benji Posted: January 26, 2012 at 09:01 PM (#4046674)

I was at the doubleheader, a Sox fan (then) on a Yankee fan bus trip. We got the tickets before the season, so I was hoping to see Dick Allen stick it to them like he did in '72. I got to see Hank Allen instead. The Yanks pounded Woody in the first game, so I told the chirping fans that Bart Johnson would even the score. About 10 minutes before game 2 Bob Sheppard groaned " pitching the second game for Chicago....Wilbur Wood" which made my friends scream with laughter. And of course NY crushed him again. I never took another Yankee Stadium bus trip again.

23. The Long Arm of Rudy Law Posted: January 26, 2012 at 09:07 PM (#4046682)

I was at the doubleheader, a Sox fan (then) on a Yankee fan bus trip. We got the tickets before the season, so I was hoping to see Dick Allen stick it to them like he did in '72. I got to see Hank Allen instead. The Yanks pounded Woody in the first game, so I told the chirping fans that Bart Johnson would even the score. About 10 minutes before game 2 Bob Sheppard groaned " pitching the second game for Chicago....Wilbur Wood" which made my friends scream with laughter. And of course NY crushed him again. I never took another Yankee Stadium bus trip again.

Bruce Lee died and Peter Forsberg was born that day.

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