Welcome to Part 2 of my look at the five MLB Style Guides that I bought when Paul Lukas put them up for auction a few weeks ago. In Part 1, which can be found here, I looked at the 1999 Style Guide. Today, let’s take a look at the next year’s, 2000.

One of the biggest changes this year (and a sign of things to come with the Style Guide) is that there are no longer features of each team’s jacket, which is a shame, although at this time it wasn’t like teams were getting redesigned jackets every year anyway. Still, they would’ve been nice to include for those teams that did have uni redesigns for 2000.

American League

Boston Red Sox

The Red Sox still hadn’t gotten around to formally dropping their red, white, and blue alternate cap, which was worn on only a handful of occasions in 1997. The Sawx are still the only AL team with a stirrup detail. The red trim around the sleeve cuff of the road jersey returns — it was absent in 1999 despite being present on the actual uniforms.

Detroit Tigers

Like in 1999, the Tigers again are shown with a vertically arched NOB on their road jersey, despite their road jersey NOBs being radially arched in reality.

Oakland Athletics

The A’s are shown with yellow sannies with their road uniform, which I cannot find evidence of in 2000, and their NOBs and numbers (on both the front and the back) have no yellow trim, which was present.

Seattle Mariners

The Mariners are inexplicably shown with a pair of pinstriped pants, shown with the their alternate vest jersey. I can find no evidence of these actually existing. Am I missing something? I feel like it’s completely bizarre for the Style Guide to randomly invent a pair of pants.

The navy blue softball top is called a road jersey, but it was frequently worn at home, too.

National League

Arizona Diamondbacks

The D-Backs are again the only team to have the sleeve trim featured, on their purple and black alternate jerseys.

Atlanta Braves

The Braves are still shown with radially-arched NOBs, despite keeping vertically-arched NOBs until 2005. Also, in covering the 1999 Style Guide, I neglected to mention that it incorrectly depicted the Braves with red NOBs, despite them always having navy blue NOBs with this uniform set.

Chicago Cubs

The Cubs are no longer one of the two teams to have their turtlenecks shown in the Style Guide. The Guide is still way off on the Cubs’ NOB and number font.

Cincinnati Reds

There’s a bunch of weird stuff going on with the Reds in this year’s Style Guide. First, the Reds are now the only team to have their turtleneck featured in the Style Guide. More importantly, however, is that the 2000 Style Guide correctly shows the Reds with black undershirts on the road after the 1999 Style Guide showed them with red undershirts on the road and black at home. The Reds would also frequently wear those black undershirts at home, too. The Reds are shown with two different alternate jerseys, a red one indicated as a road alternate and a black one indicated as a home alternate, but I can find no photographic or video evidence (in a non-exhaustive search, to be fair) of either of them being worn in 2000. Finally, the red cap with the black bill is indicated as the primary home and road cap, but the primary road uniform shows the black cap as the road cap. It does seem like the team mixed-and-matched which cap they wore, sometimes wearing red helmets to bat and black caps in the field but apparently never vice versa. What a mess.

Los Angeles Dodgers

The Dodgers are back to normal after the 1999 Style Guide showed them with a vest road jersey.

Montreal Expos

Just like in 1999, every Expos item features a French translation.

New York Mets

Using Paul’s photo for this one, because it’s better than mine. The Mets’ two BFBS have tiny asterisks next to them, and under them it says “club preferred home jersey” and “club preferred road jersey.” Indeed, the Mets rarely wore their pinstripe “primary” uniform in 2000, but I do wonder if MLB rules required them to still have white and grey uniforms as their “primaries” but allowed the Mets to denote the BFBS jerseys as their “preferred” home and away looks.

Philadelphia Phillies

The Phillies are once again one of three teams to have stirrup specifications, the final team being…

St. Louis Cardinals

Again, the St. Louis Cardinals.

San Francisco Giants

Finally, we take a look at the San Francisco Giants, in their first season of what is (more or less) their current look. The team is incorrectly shown with NOBs at home (something they wouldn’t add until 2021). I also really dig these practice jerseys — a cream pullover one at home and a grey pullover with the San Francisco script on the road. Looks like more effort than usual went into these.

Thanks for reading! I’ll have more quirks from the 2001, 2002, and 2003 Style Guides in the coming weeks.