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Week 6 Practices and Games

28A
Game:

vs. Bad News Bears

Sunday, 5/11 9 am

Green Mountain HS

28R
Game:

vs. Green Sox

Sunday, 5/11 12:30 pm

East HS

18W

Game:

@ Zephyrs

Sunday 5/11 9 am

Alameda HS

28A

TBA

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TBA

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18W

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Week 4: 28A Sox 12, Vandals 2; 18W Sox 16, Force 2; 28R Sox 0, Nationals 22

Stewie needs his money! Don’t make him come looking for you, he doesn’t like it when he gets ducked! Just watch. If he does this over $50, just imagine how he’s coming at you!

Seriously, though, get fees in so we can cover our expenses.

Text Box: “A Dutch Bed of Tulips…” Perhaps the boldest experiment with the baseball uniform came in 1882, when the rules of the game called for multi-colored uniforms designed to denote each player’s position. When the members of a ball-club took the field, no two men were wearing the same uniform. Shortstops, for example, were required to wear maroon shirts and caps, while first basemen dressed like candy canes in scarlet-and-white-striped caps and jerseys. Regardless of position, the 1882 rules stipulated that each player wear white pants, a white belt and a white tie. The only way the fans could tell which club was which was by looking at the players’ stockings, as each club wore uniquely colored socks. The rulebook called for Buffalo to wear gray stockings, while Cleveland donned navy blue hose. Not surprisingly, Chicago wore white stockings and Boston dressed in red socks. No doubt the wild color schemes caused mass confusion on the field and in the stands, and so the experimental uniforms, derisively called “clown costumes,” were abandoned in mid-season. At left: Members of the American Association Cincinnati Red Stockings in “clown costumes,” 1882 Courtesy of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Just as this experiment was abandoned, so too will the Sox’. Uniforms should be in this week.