Although I guess I’m more or less with you about the black ones. (as I recall Bill King agreed on that one as well). I think the garish yellow (gold) uniforms would be cool, as long as the away jerseys say “Oakland” on them. In the seventies everybody made fun of those garish uniforms, even as their teams were getting their collective asses kicked on the field.

Glad you called a spade a spade: that color is yellow, not gold.

I’d prefer a sleeveless gold jersey with the elephant on the ball logo over the right side of the chest.

normal. The A’s have a tradition of being out there and basically weird. So lets stick with our tradion and go out and wear Gold shirts or at least gold hats

i hate black jerseys. it is completely generic and… lame. oakland’s crisp home whites might be the nicest uniforms in all of sports.

jeffro’s request looks nice. i wonder if it would seem weird to see them in road greys with the yellow/green cap rather than the standard road all green cap. i do like the yellow/green better in general.

Playing against the White Sox, I’m like “Which one is my team?”

I’m a big fan of the road greys as well as the home whites. I also love the 80’s green, V-neck with yellow stripes collaring the shirt sleeves.

Seeing jeffro’s request in living color, I wonder what a green vest, yellow sleeve alternate might look like- Although I voted for Option #4.

And I know it’s yellow, even though they say it’s gold – but I must remind folks the reason we are green and gold, if I may quote Don Magic Juan: “Green is for the money, and gold is for the honey!”

i still think the dark green jersey & cap are the coolest.

Diiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Bring back the Yellow and Green!

I agree that the “long pants” look, or, as I call it, “The Milkman” look, is way wrong. Waaay wrong. Next, I prefer to avoid the “softball team” look with the solid colored tops, worn with white pants. Just doesn’t look major league IMO. And especially, black tops/jerseys are out. I see old pictures of John McGraw and the New York Giants, and their uniforms for a couple of years…solid black tops and pants. No thanks.

Having come out for the traditional white jersey/white pants for home, and grey pants/jerseys away, I agree that “gold (yellow)” is under-utilized. I’m in favor of dramatic sleeves, maybe even with metallic gold-colored fabric. More imagination with the piping, numbers on the back, script, everything. But give it all the right “canvas” IMO (i.e. white tops and pants for home, grey for away).

And no more evil black jerseys. That is all I ask.

But I like the black jerseys. I particularly like the reworked version the A’s sport now as opposed to the old one with green letters.

Literally, but also because they make the players too hot, thus causing them to turn up the AC in the clubhouse and in their cars, thus contributing to global warming. I think we could get the California Assembly interested in this theory.

But frankly I think our existing home whites with the white shoes are some of the classiest duds in sports. And our alternate green uniform we wear now is both very distinctive and my personal favorite uniform ever worn by a baseball team. So I honestly don’t think there is any way we can have a better uniform than 2 of our 4 existing ones.

Over on Uniwatch today about powder blues, and the alternative for the A’s, which would be a powder green. The results have varied, but here’s a quick rundown of what’s been posted. Note, these next two are from Uniwatch readers, and not me.

I will do some more work on some more conceptual stuff of my own, but I thought I would share what else is going on in A’s uni concepts over on UniWatch today.

so not real excited about your yellow-dominant shirts. Jeffro’s yellow shirt with green sleeves is pretty good, though. The two in pale green colors are ugly, though maybe they’d look better in real life.

Hate the Swiss lettering. Helvetica has its place, but not on baseball jerseys.

Agree on the black jerseys. Blecch. Red hats even worse.

My favorite uniform was one of the throwbacks they wore last year with bright green jerseys and bright yellow helmets. I love the yellow helmets.

I love the uniqueness of the A’s Colors. I can not understand why they would ever want us to look like the White Sox.

Great post, I too am a huge uniform dork myself.

Personally I like to see the yellow myself, but I don’t like it as a dominant color, but rather just a strong accent.

I hate how the A’s seem to be removing the green.

You’re the only team in baseball with green now, be proud! Show it off!

I love the A’s uniform set to death minus the black jersey – it’s atrocious.

Stick to whites at home, greys on the road, and SPRINKLE in the green alternate once or twice a week TOPS!