Boston Red Sox jersey history through the years

Boston Red Sox jersey 1933-1971

In 1933, the Red Sox decided to change their color scheme and they reintroduced navy into their color palette. Their caps were now navy with a block letter B in red. The home uniforms looked basically the same as they do now, white with RED SOX in red letters in the now familiar font across the chest. The road uniforms were light grey with the same lettering. In 1934, the road uniforms were changed to say BOSTON across the chest in red letters.

There were some tweaks to the color and font of the lettering on the road uniforms until 1938 when they settled on darker grey uniforms with BOSTON in navy block letters across the chest. The uniforms stayed pretty much unchanged until 1971 with a few minor exceptions. The font of the red B on the cap was changed to something approaching the same old English font we all know and love now. In 1946 the B was outlined in white which helped it pop out against the navy of the cap.

There were two other minor changes during this period. Starting in 1934 the solid red socks were swapped out for low, thick red stirrups with horizontal blue and white stripes across the top. The other change was that for the 1969-1971 seasons, the road uniforms had BOSTON in navy block letters that were outlined in red across the chest. During this time, both home and away jerseys had numbers on the back but no last names.