A little bit ago, the ISU Archives tweeted a new acquisition--an amazingly PRISTINE 1910 ISU baseball uniform:
Simply stunning. I believe this is the oldest known ISU baseball uniform in existence which, of course, joins my own Jack Trice-era 1923 ISU football jersey and 1923/24 ISU basketball uniform scraps.
It would've been worn with red wool socks (recall the limitations of early film tech meant red/yellow didn't reproduce like current films--an issue I discussed in The yellow lipstick of Jack Trice). I looked through the 1912 Bomb to find a picture of the team/player (Long), who is second from right in front row:
Simply stunning. I believe this is the oldest known ISU baseball uniform in existence which, of course, joins my own Jack Trice-era 1923 ISU football jersey and 1923/24 ISU basketball uniform scraps.
It would've been worn with red wool socks (recall the limitations of early film tech meant red/yellow didn't reproduce like current films--an issue I discussed in The yellow lipstick of Jack Trice). I looked through the 1912 Bomb to find a picture of the team/player (Long), who is second from right in front row: