The Phillies and Brewers are turning back the clock next week, back to the year of America’s bicentennial, 1976. Philadelphia is hosting 1970s Retro Night, and both clubs will be sporting era-appropriate uniforms.
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The big visual highlight here will be the Phillies’ pillbox caps. The Phils wore them at the outset of the 1976 season; this will mark their first appearance since.
While several National League clubs wore the pillboxes to commemorate the league’s centennial season in ’76, the Pirates made it their signature thing by continuing to wear them for another decade.