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I've been reading newspapers from 1891 over the last few days and stumbled upon this interesting footnote. Mike "King" Kelly was the manager of the Cincinnati club in the American Association and in early April he ordered green stockings for his team to wear. The newspaper noted that only one team had ever worn green up to that point, and that was the old New York Mutuals, who quickly abandoned the color. The reason given was that the green dye could cause blood poisoning if a player were to get injured.

The newspaper guessed that Kelly wanted green due to his Irish connection and that the stockings wouldn't be worn due to their dangers.

I never noticed, but if you look at all of the old team names, plenty of references to colors like red, ruby red, maroon, brown, gray, blue, dark blue, white, but no green teams.

Anyone know if they actually wore them?