I'm continuing my series on the history of NPB uniforms by next focusing on the Chunichi Dragons. I'm going to change this up a little bit from how I did the
Marines by simply listing the uniforms worn by the team by year and style (home, away, alternate) and show a card for all uniforms that I can. And I'll show the appropriate Memories Of Uniform cards as well as other cards from my collection.
One note - neither
The History Of Uniform not the
Professional Baseball Uniforms Encyclopedia 1936-2013 designate uniforms for the Dragons as home or away until 1952, so I lump anything earlier together by time span.
1936 - 2 different
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2006 BBM Dragons 70th Anniversary #01 |
1937-38 - 2 different
1939-40 - 4 different
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2012 BBM No-Hitters #18 |
1940-42
1943-44 - 2 different
1946-47 - 2 different
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2011 BBM Dragons 75th Anniversary #01 |
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2006 BBM 70th Anniversary #13 |
1948 - 2 different
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2006 BBM Dragons 70th Anniversary #09 |
1949-50 - 2 different
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2006 BBM Dragons 70th Anniversary #16 |
1950-51 - 4 different
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1951 JGA 11 (Toru Tsuchiya) |
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1950 JBR 2 (Shigeru Sugishita) |
1952-53 Home
1952-53 Away
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2011 BBM Dragons 75th Anniversary #10 |
1954-59 Home
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2006 BBM Nostalgic Baseball #077 |
1954-56 Away
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2006 BBM Dragons 70th Anniversary #14 |
1954 Alternate
1956-59 Away
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2006 BBM Nostalgic Baseball #083 |
1960-61 Home
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2000 BBM 20th Century Best 9 #127 |
1960-61 Away
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2006 BBM Nostalgic Baseball #098 |
1962 Home
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2011 BBM Dragons 75th Anniversary #27 |
1962 Away
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2011 BBM Dragons 75th Anniversary #22 |
1963-64 Home
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2006 BBM 70th Anniversary #30 |
1963-64 Away
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2006 BBM Dragons 70th #37 |
1965-66 Home
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1967 Kabaya-Leaf #54 (Tatsumi Yamanaka) |
1965-66 Away
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2000 BBM 20th Century Best 9 #459 |
1967-68 Home
1967-68 Away
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2007 BBM Draft Story #044 |
1968 Home Alternate
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2015 BBM Memories Of Uniform #025 |
1968 Away Alternate
1969-73 Home
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1973 Calbee #67 (Kenichi Yazawa) |
1969-73 Away
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2002 BBM All Time Heroes #021 |
1974-80 Home
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2015 BBM Memories Of Uniform #026 |
1974-80 Away
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1974/75 Calbee #79 (Gene Martin) |
1981-83 Home
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1983 Calbee #167 (Masaru Uno) |
1981-83 Away
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1983 Calbee #396 (Yujiro Miyako) |
1984-86 Home
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1985 Calbee #357 (Masaru Uno) |
1984-86 Away
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1985 Calbee #352 (Ken Hirano) |
1987-96 Home
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2015 BBM Memories Of Uniform #027 |
1987-96 Away
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1993 Kanebo #018 |
1997-2003 Home
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2003 Chunichi Sports #48 (Masataka Minatogawa) |
1997-2003 Away
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1998 BBM #141 |
1998 Alternate
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2015 BBM Memories Of Uniform #028 |
1999 Alternate
2002 Alternate (Away?)
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2002 BBM 2nd Version #570 |
2003 Alternate (Away?)
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2003 BBM 2nd Version #517 |
2004-11 Home
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2015 BBM Memories Of Uniform #029 |
2004-11 Away
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2006 BBM 1st Version #269 |
2010 Alternate (Turn Back The Clock)
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2015 BBM Memories Of Uniform #030 |
2012-13 Home
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2012 BBM 2nd Version #556 |
2012-13 Visitor
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2013 BBM 2nd Version #469 |
2012 Alternate (Turn Back The Clock)
2013 Alternate
2014-present Home
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2014 Calbee #153 |
2014-present Visitor
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2014 BBM 2nd Version #436 |
2014 Alternate
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2015 BBM Memories Of Uniform #031 |
Notes:
By my count, the Dragons have had 64 uniforms since they started in 1936. I was able to find a sample photo for 45 of them.
I hadn't realized until doing this that the Dragons actually wore three different jersey types between 1974 and 1986. While the design on the jersey is the same, the 1974-80 versions are button down, the 1981-83 versions are pullovers with a couple buttons at the top and the 1984-86 versions are pullovers with no buttons.
The only difference between the 1987-96 and the 1997-2003 "standard" uniforms appears to be the hat design. Likewise the change in "standard" uniform in 1954 was the replacement of the "N" (for "Nagoya") on the hat to a "C" (for "Chunichi").
I'm pretty sure that the picture of Hoshino is from Spring Training 1969 before the Dragons unveiled their new uniforms. Hoshino was taken in the fall 1968 draft and debuted for the Dragons the following year but the uniform shown on that card is the 1967-68 version (you can tell from the hat).
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