1893 San Francisco (San Franciscos)

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:
March 1893: “The [California League] uniforms this year will be quite different from those of former seasons. The ‘Frisco players will wear suits of white flannel with blue belts and hose, white caps trimmed with blue. Tailor-made white flannel coats, trimmed with blue, will be worn on the benches.” From The Sporting Life, March 18, 1893. Research from Chuck McGill.

April 12, 1893, San Francisco v. Los Angeles: “In the game of April 12, in the California league, the regulation home plate was forgotten, and the top of a soap box, freshly whitewashed, was placed in the position. The players of the San Francisco team kept moving the cover from one place to another, and bothered Borchers, the Los Angeles pitcher, so much that he gave up 15 base on balls and lost the game, 17 to 8.” From the Boston Globe, April 29, 1893.

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