New Eraĭouble outlined ‘P’ former batting practice cap becomes the alternate in 2009. The red bill cap is brought back in 2007 and used with a new red alternate jersey. Worn with the black alternate jersey, it's the only MLB cap with a red undervisor.Īlternate yellow bill/red undervisor cap retired after 2005. 2001-05 New EraĪ new alternate cap is introduced, inspired by the style worn in the Turn Ahead The Clock game in 1999 (note - it's not the same as the TATC cap on which the red undervisor wrapped around the edge to the top of the visor). The red bill alternate cap is gone after 2000. The grey cap is rarely used after 1998 (black caps are worn home & away). Two new caps debut: a road grey cap with an outlined ‘P’, and an alternate cap with a red bill. Jerseys are redesigned changing the font on the home, the road gets pinstripes, and an alternate black jersey with red trim returns red to the colorway for the first time since 1946. Either way, the caps were dumped by retailers, never worn on-field, and depending on your point of view they are a collector's item or a mistake. I've heard two stories about it: the Pirates decided to change the logo to black after the gold P caps were made or, the gold P caps were a New Era mistake. But when the season rolled around the alternate cap had a black P. In 1992, MLB logo is glued the on back at first, embroidered on by year end.ĬOLLECTOR ALERT! This grey cap with gold P was intended to be the 1997 alternate. ‘P’ returns to slightly rounder style of 1980-82. Black with gold ‘P’ echoes style worn from 1948-70. Pirates switch back to a standard round crown. Some players wear Sports Specialties caps Sports Specialties Gold cap retired following the 1984 season. Team issued caps from the 80’s are distinguished by the same heavy mesh lining from previous years. From 1980 onward Stargell stars have black ‘S’ stitched in middle. New EraĬrown gets higher and ‘P’ gets slightly larger. The team enters their “Bumblebee” period (‘77-84) where a dizzying array of jersey, pant, and cap styles allows for seven possible uniform combinations which the club varies on a nightly basis. Pirates switch from old gold to bright gold, introduce a black version, and undervisors turn grey. Note that game worn Pirate pillbox caps will often have the size written on inside top mesh. New Eraġ976 - Only year of an "old" gold pillbox. The Pirates keep this style for 10 years. Pillbox caps are adopted by several clubs for the NL Centennial coinciding with the USA Bicentennial celebration (Cardinals, Giants, Mets, Phillies, Pirates, Reds, NL Umpires, NL All-stars). The first gold caps are of a coarse wool material.Īs discussed directly above, the switch to soft wool which has a lighter color gold. But apparently it wasn’t popular, probably too hot, etc., so the switch to lighter wool (which had a lighter color) was made for 1971. The coarse wool was what they came up with in 1970. I read a story about the 1970 Pirates jerseys/caps awhile ago, how hard the team tried to find material for caps to match the “old gold” color in the new double knit jerseys. New EraĪn "old" gold cap debuts in mid-season 1970 along with MLB's first double knits for the opening of Three Rivers Stadium. Caps have gold buttons 1948-50.Ĭaps have black buttons 1951-64. The "P" returns to embroidered and becomes a bit slimmer and the button changes to red. Probably the old felt logo caps are still used along with the newer embroidered logo caps. The "P" returns to embroidered and becomes a bit slimmer. Cap again returns to blue with red P, which appears to be thickly embroidered. It looks like the cap construction changes from the newsboy style cap to today's type. White crown, blue visor, blue pinstripes, red P. Navy with white P and white with blue P and from photos it seems they were used interchangeably home and road. White cap, blue visor, blue "P" at home, road cap the same but in grey.
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