There were no separate home and road versions. Nowadays, teams tend to pad their wardrobes with alternate jerseys and caps, mainly so they have more items to sell at retail. Uniform retailing didn't yet exist in the s, and the Astros felt that their new design was so revolutionary that there was no need for separate home and road versions. For the first five seasons of the rainbow era, the same white-based jerseys were paired with the same white pants for every game. That changed in , when a modified road version was introduced.
It wasn't just the jerseys. The team's design program originally included rainbow-striped stirrups which fell by the wayside almost immediately , rainbow warm-up jackets, and rainbow polos for the training staff. Astros' rainbow design program extended beyond the jerseys. The back of the jersey changed a lot. The original rainbow jersey was almost as flashy from the back as it was from the front, with an eye-popping bull's-eye concept and a circus font for the uniform number.
Unfortunately, this design lasted only one season and was replaced by a series of more conventional number treatments. Fun fact: Back-jersey design of Astros' rainbow uni evolved over the years.
Original version was clearly the best. The front of the jersey changed a bit, too. Probably only the most sharp-eyed fans noticed, but the star on the front of the rainbow jersey evolved over the years. For the first seven seasons of the rainbow era, the star had an orange outline. Then the outline was changed to white an improvement! Star on front of Astros' rainbow jersey evolved over the years.
Outline changed from orange to white, and then star got smaller. The number on the pants was unusual but not unprecedented. One of the strangest-looking things about the rainbow design was the placement of a uniform number on the right pant leg, something most baseball fans had never seen before. But numbers on the pants had actually been worn by a fair number of Negro League teams over the years and still show up nowadays on Negro League throwbacks.
Uni numbers on pants weren't all that unusual in Negro Leagues, and still show up on today's Negro League throwbacks. While the Astros' pant leg numbers may not have been unique, they still had a ripple effect, at least in Chicago, where the White Sox wore numbers on their thighs for two different generations of uniforms.
White Sox wore numbers on their pants from left and The rainbow design made it into the Congressional Baseball Game. Several s and '80s politicians wore the rainbow uniform in the annual Congressional Baseball Game, most notably Houston-area Congressman Ron Paul, who in hit the first home run in the game's history later immortalized in a "Ripley's Believe It or Not! And in a bonus bit of trivia for uniform enthusiasts, he wore his full name on the back of his jersey.
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