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- Aug 27, 2005
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Been away for a while, got some new stuff here...
Since interleague play started in '97, the Cubs and White Sox had played two series every year, one on either side of Chicago. A couple years ago though, this was tweaked into one four-game series, two in Wrigley and two on the Southside. Anyway, these two sets aren't meant to replace the normal unis, just the crosstown series. White, light blue and red are the colors of Chicago's flag, which somewhat oddly only one Chicago team I can think of has worn as their permanent colors, the Red Stars of women's soccer (the Sox wore powder blue road uniforms with red lettering in the early 70s, the closest either baseball team has come, as the Cubs normally wear a rather dark royal blue).
Admittedly, the use of two different blues was arbitrary on my part, but I ended up liking the final result, so I went with it. For the occasion, I modified the White Sox sock to overlap a star, and the Cubs C to include a star within the dead space. The standing cub, aka the bear and bat, is at the same time my own creation yet not, as I basically broke the existing walking cub into a few pieces and rebuilt it so that it looked like a modernization of a much older emblem the Cubs wore off and on from 1908 to 1936. Yes, I know the spacing of the stars on that C is rather off, I meant to fix it but never got around to it.
Sauntering over to hockey, I'd ask everybody to ignore the litte stop signs on the jersey backs, but it'd be futile, and that's only because I recently found out that Junior C level hockey, at least in Canada, no longer requires them (they're there in the first place to warn young players against bodychecking into opponents' backs). Anyway, the Paris (Ontario) Mounties
Much like the AFL, the teams in the Mounties' league commonly wear sponsors on their backs. Unlike footy, as it's generally small local outfits buying the ad space, it's common for most, of not all team members to wear different sponsors.
Since interleague play started in '97, the Cubs and White Sox had played two series every year, one on either side of Chicago. A couple years ago though, this was tweaked into one four-game series, two in Wrigley and two on the Southside. Anyway, these two sets aren't meant to replace the normal unis, just the crosstown series. White, light blue and red are the colors of Chicago's flag, which somewhat oddly only one Chicago team I can think of has worn as their permanent colors, the Red Stars of women's soccer (the Sox wore powder blue road uniforms with red lettering in the early 70s, the closest either baseball team has come, as the Cubs normally wear a rather dark royal blue).
Admittedly, the use of two different blues was arbitrary on my part, but I ended up liking the final result, so I went with it. For the occasion, I modified the White Sox sock to overlap a star, and the Cubs C to include a star within the dead space. The standing cub, aka the bear and bat, is at the same time my own creation yet not, as I basically broke the existing walking cub into a few pieces and rebuilt it so that it looked like a modernization of a much older emblem the Cubs wore off and on from 1908 to 1936. Yes, I know the spacing of the stars on that C is rather off, I meant to fix it but never got around to it.
Sauntering over to hockey, I'd ask everybody to ignore the litte stop signs on the jersey backs, but it'd be futile, and that's only because I recently found out that Junior C level hockey, at least in Canada, no longer requires them (they're there in the first place to warn young players against bodychecking into opponents' backs). Anyway, the Paris (Ontario) Mounties
Much like the AFL, the teams in the Mounties' league commonly wear sponsors on their backs. Unlike footy, as it's generally small local outfits buying the ad space, it's common for most, of not all team members to wear different sponsors.
