SEATTLE, WA - JUNE 30: Denard Span #4 and Dee Gordon #9 of the Seattle Mariners celebrate their 6-4 win against the Kansas City Royals during their game at Safeco Field on June 30, 2018 in Seattle, Washington. (Photo by Abbie Parr/Getty Images)
With Major League Baseball’s recent release of the 2021 All-Star Game jerseys, a questionable decision at that, people are now taking jabs at an era that MLB has made sure to forget: the Turn Ahead The Clock jerseys of the late 1990s.
As an avid defender of these jerseys, I am not having any of it, and I am here to tell you why the Turn Ahead The Clock jerseys have left a similar taste in people’s mouths to the Sega Dreamcast: truly ahead of its time, and severely misunderstood.