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Giants Unveil New Retro-Inspired Orange Jersey

San Francisco Giants 1980 Orange Jersey Logo

The San Francisco Giants have unveiled a new retro-inspired orange alternate jersey set to be worn for every Friday home game during the upcoming 2014 season. The unveiling came courtesy a Tweet on their official Twitter account.

Brandon Crawford shows off the new orange alternate jersey for 2014
Brandon Crawford shows off the new orange alternate jersey for 2014

The jersey brings back a uniform script not seen on an in-game uniform in 32 years, the Giants wore this logo on their jerseys originally from 1977-1982.

Willie McCovey wearing the old script back in 1980
Willie McCovey wearing the old script back in 1980

There are several differences between the 1982 version and 2014. Most notably is the new jersey is button-up rather than pullover (thankfully). The stripes around the collar are now a simple single black pipe, which also runs down the front… there is no sleeve stripe on the new look.

There is also a slight beige drop shadow on the new script outside the white border, this beige drop shadow is present on all the modern-day Giants jersey logos.

With this new jersey, the orange alternate worn from 2010-13 is gone. The Giants wore their Friday orange alternate last season 12 times to an even 6-6 record.

The Giants become the second MLB team in two days to unveil a new alternate uniform, yesterday the Los Angeles Dodgers revealed their new grey road alternate jersey.

UPDATE (Jan 31/14 10:15pm ET):

The San Francisco Giants just tweeted out a new photo which shows that the new orange jersey indeed has numbers on the front, just like the originals!

New SF Giants Orange Jersey 2014