Finley deserves some love for forward thinking.
We might still be watching clean-shaven, close-cropped players in road Greys and home Whites with no names on the backs of their uniforms.
Not to mention the fact that his being too cheap to pony up $50K owed to Catfish Hunter for a contracted bonus led the way to modern day free agency.
- had ball girls in 1969
- had a mascot (a live mule) in 1963
- had a roving dixieland jazz band play music between innings in the stands 1970
- orange baseball
- colorful knit uniforms (1972). Pirates went knit in 1971 but they were still white and grey
- white shoes!
Still, I think he made too many enemies to get enough votes.
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