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St. Louis Cardinals Uniform History1900-1961
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1900

"St. LOUIS" arched across home white laced jersey and road grey buttoned jersey. Red cap with St.L insignia.

1901-06

Home jersey lacing replaced with buttons.

Home cap is white in 1903.

No insignia on white home cap in 1904.

Red cap with insignia used home and road in 1905.

Road cap is grey in 1906.

1907-08

Red trim around collar flap on home jersey. Red cap worn home and road.

1909

Collar flap dropped on home jersey. "St. L" insignia on left sleeve of home white and road grey jerseys. Home white and road grey caps with red piping.

The guy on the far right in the 2nd pic is in a Browns jersey.

1910-13

Collar flap dropped on road jersey as well.

1914-16

Sleeve trim added.

1917

Home sleeve insignia is larger and the older turn-of-the-century style. Looks like road jerseys had sleeve trim, home did not. Thank you cardinalsuniformsand logos.com

1918-19

Pinstriped white home, road grey jerseys with "Cardinals" in cursive. Navy caps with "SL" insignia. Some photos, looks like spring training, show caps with no logo and red seam stripes. US flag sleeve patch worn in 1918.

Pillbox alternate throwback cap is also used.

1920

Plain white home jersey with placket piping and plain white cap. "St. LOUIS" arched across road grey jersey with a plain grey cap.

1921

The lettering gets a bit larger. Alternate "Cardinals" jersey appears, probably used at home.

1922

Birds on bat debut, a radical style change for MLB jerseys of the day. Cream home jersey cap, grey road jersey and cap. Both caps have red piping. An alternate pinstriped home jersey has "CARDINALS' across the chest and a bird on the sleeve, with a pillbox cap was worn weekends and holidays. Here's a great piece on it. Road alternate also worn, resembles the 1920 version (maybe the same jerseys reused?)

1923

The script is tweaked; It's thicker, different font and the "C" is closer to the bat.Numbers are worn on home shirt left sleeve. Were they removed? Reports conflict. Solid white cap with red crown band worn at home, grey with red band on the road. Home alternate jersey now has a cardinal on the chest. Raod alternate dropped.

1924-25

Script tweaked again, C gets larger and more rounded. Pinstripes added to road jersey. Sleeve numbers are back on the home jersey and home cap goes back to white with piping.

NL 50th anniversary sleeve patch on 1925 jerseys.

1926

The regular season home jersey is blank with "St.L" on the sleeve (the "L" looks more like an "M").

Spalding (home), Rawlings distributed by Leacock (road)

The regular season road jersey birds on bat are much thinner.

3 sets of new jerseys are issued for the 1926 World Series, home, home alternate and road.

1926 World Series birds on bat script has the "C" closer to the bat, as it was on home jerseys in 1922.

Rawlings distributed by Leacock

1927

To celebrate the World Series win, jerseys have a cardinal surrounded by "World Champions". Pinstripes are added to home jerseys.

Spalding (home), Rawlings distributed by Leacock (road)

The road jersey had GREEN pinstripes with the "World Champions" logo.....

.........however I've read that this boasting didn't go over well with other teams and their fans, so the Cards returned to the pinstriped jersey from the 1926 World Series (with the smaller "C"), quite probably the same 1926 set.

Now this is interesting. These pictures are from a minor league team in 1928. The jersey on the left sure looks like the 1927 "World Champions" road jersey. Being unpopular, the Cards probably wore them only a few times and sent them down to the minors. The one on the right sure looks like the Card's 1926 World Series home jersey (note the piping and sleeve logo) but has a cardinal logo surrounded by "Worlds" (not World) "Champions". My guess, either they planned to use the 1926 WS home style in 1927, or else the bird and lettering was embroidered onto those 1926 WS jerseys (in which case this is the 1926 World Series home jersey!). At any rate, the team went with the other home style for 1927 and this wound up in the minors.

1928

Home jersey similar to 1927 but without "World Champions", cap is pinstriped with seam piping. Gray road jersey & grey cap.

Spalding (home), Rawlings (road)

1928-29

New jerseys for the World Series. "Cardinals" get a white or silver outline. The beak of the bird on the left lies over the placket piping.

J. M. Sainz

World Series set is used for the 1929 season.

1930

Spalding (home), Rawlings (road)

Piping extends all the way down on the home jerseys, pinstripes gone from road jerseys

Note the short bird legs on the Rawlings road jerseys.

1930-31

"St. Louis" replaces "Cardinals" on home jerseys for the 1930 World Series. The same jerseys are used in the 1931 season.

Rawlings

1932

Numbers added to jersey backs.

Rawlings

Numbers added and jersey reused in 1932.

1933

Cardinals return to the home white and road grey jerseys. Jerseys have 4 buttons.

Rawlings

1934-35

This would indicate 1934 jerseys had 6 buttons.

Rawlings

Around 1935, spring training jerseys were made of lightweight "Palm Beach" material. Not used in the regular season. Not certain of the manufacturer.

1936

Navy added to piping which now extends down the full length of the placket. Navy outline added to lettering and numbers.

Rawlings

1937

On the road jersey, the piping is now white with red edging.

Rawlings

1938

Thicker piping (called a soutache braid) is now just red. Have to be careful as the Cards used a soutache across the bottom of the placket as shown here. Their minor league teams had the soutache all the way down. Other than that the jerseys are similar. This has led to minor league jerseys being altered into fake Cards jerseys.