Sure, all the talk in baseball these days is about royal blue, with the Blue Jays, Royals, Mets, and Cubs wearing the color in their respective League Championship Series. But there was a time when another shade of blue ruled the Major League Baseball landscape.
This photo from 1981, dredged up by the Sports Paper on Twitter, reflects an era of powder blue dominance. The National League All Star roster at the time featured the likes of the Phillies’ Mike Schmidt and Pete Rose, the Expos’ Tim Raines and Gary Carter, the Cardinals’ Bruce Sutter, the Cubs’ Bill Buckner, and the Braves’ Bruce Benedict—to name a few—all decked out the softer shade of baseball’s blue.
The last time any of the four remaining MLB teams won it all—the Blue Jays’ title in 1993 is the most recent—it was a lot closer to this era of powder blue than our current period of royal blue.