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Phils Will Wear Sweet (But Inaccurate) Throwbacks Featuring a Pillbox Hat
By Jim Adair
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Coming up on June 3rd and 5th, the Phillies will throw back to the nation’s bicentennial (and the NL’s centennial) in 1976 with sweet retro unis with authentic patches and all. They look amazing. The hat is a bit off though, look at the “P”:
So the hat isn’t 100% accurate, but I’d argue the slight modernization/consistency of the “P” actually looks better. Still not as good as the road unis from the same year though:
Let’s find a way to break those back out. And please guys, let’s do the high-sock stirrup thing. It just brings everything together.
When he's not writing about sports here or ranting about them on Twitter, Jim is probably watching X-Files on Netflix or drinking a beer somewhere. Jim has nothing against hockey, it's just not his style. He once met Duce Staley at a Sixers game.