1889 Chicago Union (Unions)

This rendering is based on written documentation for uniform style and color. No visual documentation is known and an artist’s conceptualization is used to create the rendering.

Rendering accuracy:  Year: documented    Team: documented

Visual documentation on this uniform:
None

Written documentation on this uniform:
August 1889: “Suits [of the Unions]–gray shirts and pants, black belt and stockings, dark-blue caps.” From the St. Paul Appeal, August 17, 1889. Research from Don Stokes. This newspaper report announced three days of baseball for the “colored citizens of Chicago” at the “Chicago Ball Park, corner of Loomis and Jackson Streets.” Upcoming games were to be held on “Wednesday August 28, Unions vs. Resolutes of Chicago, Thursday and Friday, August 29 and 30, Pinchbacks of New Orleans vs. Resolutes of Chicago.”

Team genealogy:
 Union, Chicago, 1887-1900
Union was formed in Chicago in 1887 and played as an independent through the year of 1900. Union merged with the Chicago Columbia Giants for the 1901 season and the new team was called the Chicago Union Giants. Info from wikipedia.