1889 Resolutes, Chicago

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.

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Visual documentation on this uniform:
None

Written documentation on this uniform:
August 1889: “Suits [of the Resolutes]–white caps and shirts, blue knee pants, red stockings and belts.” 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.”

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