Baseball Shorts: A colorful experiment that lasted less than a season
The seventies and the eighties were known for their colorful baseball uniforms. Take the 1979 Phillies for example with their all Crimson uniform. Or the colorful mishmash of the 1977-1984 Pittsburgh Pirates. But in 1882, it was even crazier than in the seventies. In that year, the National League adopted a rule that every position…