An Ode to the Forgotten Baseball Sweater

With all the sweater love going around, it recalled the greatest sartorial item in baseball history, one that has been lost in our relentless push into the future. I speak of the baseball sweater.

With its heyday lasting from the early 1900s to the 1930s, the baseball sweater was sadly phased out for leather-sleeved coats, nylon jackets and hoodies. And while those are all fine and dandy, baseball is known for its wonderfully complicated uniforms—button-down jerseys, pants with belt loops and sanitary socks worn under stirrups. With all that going on, couldn't there be room for the shawl neck cardigan?