San Diego Padres brown uniform mockups look fantastic
Padres general manager A.J. Preller has been busy this offseason, making a flurry of trades to bring in Matt Kemp, Wil Myers, and Justin Upton, but fans in San Diego don’t want the makeover to stop with the roster.
Check out these uniforms, designed by Padres fan John Brubaker, that reintroduces brown as the team’s primary color. Brown was at the core of San Diego’s on-field look from the late ’60s to the early ’90s and there’s a legion of Friar Faithful that would be thrilled to see their favourite ballclub wear it on a daily basis again.
Lee Jenkins of Sports Illustrated, who is a native of San Diego, wrote about the ‘Bring Back The Brown’ movement for the magazine in July. A September article in U-T San Diego also advocated for the Padres to make the change.
There was no more staunch supporter for a return to the brown uniforms than Mr. Padres himself, the late Tony Gwynn, who said this to ESPN.com in 2012:
Brown is part of who the Padres are. It’s definitely unique in baseball, because no one else has brown. How many teams have blue? How many have red? But none of ’em have brown.
Their current outfits are bland and unimaginative. Brubaker’s update is clean and classy, something Gwynn would have been proud to sport as he put together another season hitting over .300.
Now it’s up to the Padres’ decision makers to make it happen.
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