UUOTD-Thursday

UUOTD remains on the time machine, and we go back to 1979.

We're not in Cleveland, but we go down the Ohio Turnpike/Pennsylvania Turnpike down to Pittsburgh, where the Pirates won a World Series.

These were the "We Are Family" Pirates, who adopted the popular disco song by Sister Sledge. They were a good team, led by guys like Willie Stargell, Dave Parker, and Bill Madlock (pictured). I was for Baltimore in the '79 Series, and was mad when the Pirates won it.

The Pirates also wore uniforms worthy of the disco era. They had some of the ugliest uniform combinations, and never wore the same thing two days in a row. They had both black and gold caps, in the 1890's style, with the flat top and horizontal stripes. The caps also had stars, given to players as a reward by the captain, Willie Stargell.


They also had gold, black, and white jerseys and pants. The white jerseys had gold pinstripes, with a small black trim on the pinstripes. The pants matched the jerseys, but the pants were not always worn with its matching jersey. So, there were all kinds of combinations of uniforms for these Pirates.

It was quite the clash during that World Series, when the Orioles chose to wear their orange jerseys with the white and black hats. The disco era was quite colorful, pun intended.

My high school had the same colors as the Pirates, and the baseball team wore imitations of the Pirates' uniforms in 1980-81-82, with gold jerseys and black pants with gold pinstripes on the pants, and the black flat-top cap with stars.

At least the Bucs didn't wear powder blue on the road, like a lot of the other teams of that era did.

Oh, what a difference 28 years makes.