Red pinstripes. Blue stars. A simple white home uniform, a gray road uniform and a third uniform coated in cream. (And a fourth jersey, which we’ll get to later …) The Phillies have a simple look, thought of as classic and fitting somewhere near the Yankees, Red Sox, Cubs, Cardinals and Dodgers.
It always wasn’t that way, however. In the nascent days of the Phillies, the team switched plenty of times, from red to navy to red to yellow to royal blue. After switching temporarily to the secondary nickname Blue Jays (during World War II), the Phillies decided to retool completely.