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June 3, 1851

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1851 the New York Knickerbockers became the first baseball team to wear uniforms. The other teams in the League considered the Knickerbockers to be “Fancy Dans” with their new-fangled matching uniforms and several teams declared that they’d never stoop to something so effeminate. Close Bookmark and Share This Page Save … Continue reading

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