He wasn't overweight at the time surviving photos show, so there was no reason to add pinstripes to the uniform to hide his heft. Ruth didn't join the Yankees until 1920, after Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sold him to New York. Mary's Industrial School for boys in Baltimore and, in 1915, he was just starting his major league career as a pitcher with the Boston Red Sox, reported. In 1912, Ruth was 17 and in school at St. But they brought them back in 1915 (the stripes were navy blue rather than black), and have worn them ever since. The Yankees' official uniform colors are midnight navy blue and white. The Yankees do not have names on the back of either of their uniforms, as seen on Luke Voit (left) and Mariano Rivera (right). The Yankees had a horrible season that year and left the pinstripes behind. Nick Swisher in the regular pinstriped home uniform. The home uniform will consists of white shirt and pants, with black pin stripe and 'N.Y.' on the left breast a white cap with a blue monogram, and blue stockings with maroon stripes." The fad for the pin stripe in baseball toggery, introduced by the Cubs a few years ago, has reached the Hilltop, and the home uniforms of the Yankees this year will be of that design. "When manager Harry Wolverton's Yankees trot out from their clubhouse on April 11 to open the season with Boston, Hilltop fans will see their favorites togged out in uniforms closely resembling those worn by the Giants last season. That would have been several years before Ruth became a Yankee: The Yankees started wearing pinstriped uniforms in 1912, according to the Feb. Ruth did gain weight later in his career, as he was well known for overindulging in food.Īs points out, unless the Yankees only started wearing pinstripes during Ruth's final years with the club (in the mid-1930s), they would have had no need to disguise his girth. Think ex-Seminole and San Francisco catcher Buster Posey, not New York Yankees pitcher C.C. But for most of his baseball career, Ruth was 6-foot-2 and 215 pounds, according to Baseball - and that's not much more than Jaguars kicker Josh Scobee's stats. We always think of the Babe as portly because that's how many photos and films portray him. It's baseball season, so why not have a baseball question? Hosted by Andrew Rotondi and Scott Reinen, The Bronx Pinstripes Show is a Yankees podcast focused on weekly news and on-field action with a dose of raw fan emotion, media and player interviews, and an in-depth look at analytics. Is it true that the New York Yankees wear pinstripes because Yankees owner Jake Ruppert thought Babe Ruth would look slimmer that way?
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