1890 Sacramento (Sacramentos)

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

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Visual documentation on these uniforms:
None

Written documentation on these uniforms:
February 1890: “[The Sacramento] uniforms are now being made and will consist of white caps, white stockings, dark blue knit Jersey jackets and dark blue pantaloons, trimmed with white. This will be a very handsome uniform—and an exact counterpart of that worn by Chicago in their famous trip around the world a year ago. All the ticket-sellers, gate-keepers, ushers—in fact, everybody in the employ of the club—will be required to be uniformed.” From The Sporting Life, February 26, 1890. Research from Chuck McGill. A newspaper report from the end of the 1890 season described the cap as red in color.

March 1890: “The uniforms of the players of the Sacramento team are expected to arrive here early next week, and are said to be very neat and quite expensive.” From the Sacramento Daily Record-Union, March 15, 1890.

July 1890: “New uniforms have arrived for the Sacrementos. These are pure white flannel and the name of the club is lettered across the breast of the shirts in maroon color. The belts, stockings and caps are of the same color as the trimmings, but they have not arrived from the East. The uniforms [shirts and pants only] were made in San Francisco and the club will appear in them in the game here next Thursday.” From the Sacremento Daily Record-Union, July 6, 1890.

October 1890: “The Sacramento team give evidence of being the only patriotic team in the [California] League. Their uniform consists of the national colors, the stockings and belt being white, the cap red and the shirt and pants blue.” From The Sporting News, October 11, 1890. Research from Chuck McGill.

Team genealogy: Coming soon