Ruppert Jones, Part 2

I think we take for granted, if we think about it at all, how MLB.com and ESPN can use Photoshop to instantly change a traded player’s uniform from old team to new.

This certainly was not the case in the 1980s.

If you need proof, here is Ruppert Jones’s entry in the 1984 Tigers Yearbook.

I don’t remember ever seeing a player wearing a different team’s uniform in a yearbook — and much less not even his most-recent team!

Here is Jones in a Mariners uniform, though his previous team had been the Padres.

Author: Mike McClary

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