Kansas City wears metallic gold helmets with yellow vests and a large team logo placed diagonally across it… with only 12 years remaining until 2027 it’s safe to say this will not be happening, at least not as the standard Royals team uniform.Ģ002: The “R” is dropped from the home plate of the primary logo, the “KC” now in white with a black drop shadow takes its place, this is the same primary mark the team uses today. The Seattle Mariners hold a “Turn Ahead the Clock” promotion during which the Royals are the visiting team and sees both teams wearing uniforms supposedly from the year 2027. The experiment is a dud, the team only wore the grey lids for the 1995 season before returning back to the royal blue cap for all games.ġ998: Time travel is invented allowing the Royals to wear uniforms from the future! Sorta. The Royals also mess about with their ballcap for the first time, a grey cap with “KC” in blue is worn on the road. The new grey road jersey will still read “Royals” scripted across the front but now in royal blue with a white outline.ġ993: The shade of gold used on the crown and the “KC” on the primary logo are changed to a more traditional metallic version of the colour.ġ994: An alternate jersey is adopted by the Royals for the first time in team history, it’s royal blue and uses the same scripted “Royals” wordmark across the front as the home and road uniforms, this time in white.ġ995: “Kansas City” returns to the road grey jersey, arched in a royal blue with white trim serifed block font. The “Royals” wordmark below the logo increases in size considerably, now twice as wide overall as the “KCR” banner/crown logo above it.ġ992: So long powder blue as the Royals (along with the Montreal Expos) are one of the last two holdouts to switch back to grey on the road. This is the last time the Royals will wear “Kansas City” on a team uniform for 12 years.ġ986:One year after their first World Series championship the team tweaks their primary logo once again. Like the previous powder blue uniform the wordmark is white. The wordmark across the front remains the same but now in white instead of royal blue.ġ979: The “Royals” wordmark below the primary logo switches from a gold straight serifed font to a blue diagonal script, the font of this new wordmark is very similar to the one already worn on the Royals home jersey.ġ983: “Kansas City” is removed from the powder blue road jersey replaced with the same scripted “Royals” logo worn on the home jersey. On the road the team uses a grey button-up jersey with “Kansas City” both arched and scripted (you don’t see that combination too often) across the front in blue.ġ971: The wordmark on the road grey jersey switches from a script to a block-serif font, still arched, still royal blue.ġ973: Powder blue makes its first appearance on a Kansas City Royals uniform, the road jersey switches from grey to the (in?)famous light shade of blue. Team caps are royal blue with a monogrammed “KC” in white, this is worn both at home and on the road and is still worn to this day with minor adjustments to the shade of blue.Īt home the Royals wear a plain white jersey with “Royals” scripted across the front in blue, like the caps the team will wear a very similar version of this wordmark on their home jersey right through to the present. On this banner is a large white “R” with “KC” in gold above it, below the banner is “ROYALS” in gold. Because of that, the Royals almost go with a logo featuring a large cow but shift gears and instead debut a blue and gold logo featuring a crown above a royal banner in the shape of home plate. The new expansion team is named after the American Royal Livestock Show which is hosted each year by the city of Kansas City, Missouri. As we get set for the 2015 World Series let’s take a look back through the logo and uniform history of the Kansas City Royals starting back at the very beginning of their franchise in 1969.ġ969: Kansas City Royals baseball begins just one year after the Kansas City Athletics relocated to Oakland, California in 1968.
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