I've put off working on this project for a few months, using the excuse that I was waiting for a couple sets from Ryan. Now that I've gotten everything, it's time to dive back in...
Quick history of the Hawks - they were found in 1938 and known simply as Nankai. They briefly changed their name during the war to Kinki Nippon and then were known as Kinki Great Ring just after the war before changing their name to the Nankai Hawks, the name they were known by for the next 40 plus years. Following the 1988 season, Nankai sold the team to Daiei, who moved it from Osaka to Fukuoka, changing the name of the team to the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks. Daiei sold the team to Softbank following the 2004 season. Softbank renamed the team to the name it is currently known by - the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks.
As always, I am using
The History Of Uniform and
Professional Baseball Uniforms Encyclopedia 1936-2013 as my primary sources. Neither source differentiates between home and away uniforms until 1951.
1938-40 - 3 different
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| 2008 BBM Hawks 70th Anniversary #01 |
1940-43 - 2 different
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| 2000 BBM 20th Century Best 9 #126 |
1946-47 - 4 different
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| 1946-47 JBR 23 (Kazuto Tsuruoka) |
1947-49 - 2 different
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| 2012 BBM No-Hitters #17 |
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| 2000 BBM 20th Century Best 9 #069 |
1948-49
1949-50 - 3 different
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| 2006 BBM Nostalgic Baseball #016 |
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| ~1950 Uncatalogued Bromide Kazuo Kageyama |
1951-55 Home
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| 2006 BBM Nostalgic Baseball #050 |
1951-55 Away
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| 2000 BBM 20th Century Best 9 #076 |
1956-58 Home
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| 2013 BBM Hawks 75th Anniversary #01 |
1956-58 Away
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| 2000 BBM 20th Century Best 9 #097 |
1958 Home
1959-68 Home
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| 1967 Kabaya-Leaf #314 (Masao Morishita) |
1959-68 Away
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| 2000 BBM 20th Century Best 9 #261 |
1969 Home
1969 Away
1970-71 Home
1970-71 Away
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| 2013 BBM Hawks 75th Anniversary #19 |
1972-76 Home
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| 2015 BBM Memories Of Uniform #085 |
1972-76 Away
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| 2014 BBM Hawks Achievement #02 (Michio Satoh) |
1974-76 Home
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| 2014 BBM Hawks Achievement #28 (Hiromitsu Kadota) |
1974-76 Away
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| 1975-76 Calbee #885 (Mitsuru Fujiwara) |
1976-77 Home
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| 1974-76 Calbee #901 (Yutaka Enatsu) |
1977 Home
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| 2010 Epoch All Japan Baseball Foundation 1977 #38 |
1977 Away
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| 2015 BBM Memories Of Uniform #086 |
1978-83 Home
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| 1984 Calbee #57 (Chiaki Sadaoka) |
1978-83 Away
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| 1980 Calbee Big #43 (Nobuyuki Kagawa) |
1980 Alternate (black number)
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| 2013 BBM Hawks 75th Anniversary #04 |
1980 Alternate (red number)
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| 1981 Calbee #83 (Mitsuru Fujiwara) |
1984-88 Home
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| 1987 Calbee #104 (Hiromitsu Kadota) n |
1984-88 Away
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| 2015 BBM Memories Of Uniform #088 |
1989-92 Home
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| 1991 BBM #383 |
1989-90 Away
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| 1989 Lotte #46 (Willie Upshaw) |
1991-92 Away
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| 2015 BBM Memories Of Uniform #089 |
1993-98 Home
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| 2015 BBM Memories Of Uniform #090 |
1993-98 Away
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| 1993 BBM #81 |
1999-2004 Home
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| 2002 BBM 1st Version #238 |
1999-2004 Away
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| 2001 BBM #393 |
2005 Home
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| 2005 BBM 1st Version #68 |
2005 Away
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| 2005 BBM 2nd Version #722 |
2006-present Home
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| 2007 BBM 2nd Version #538 |
2006-present Away
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| 2007 BBM 1st Version #102 |
2006 Alternate
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| 2012 BBM Celebration Of Hawks #01 |
2007 Alternate
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| 2012 BBM Celebration Of Hawks #03 |
2008 Alternate
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| 2012 BBM Celebration Of Hawks #06 |
2008 Turn Back The Clock
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| 2008 BBM Hawks 70th Anniversary #97 |
2008 Turn Back The Clock
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| 2008 BBM Hawks 70th Anniversary #92 |
2009 Alternate
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| 2012 BBM Celebration Of Hawks #10 |
2010 Alternate
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| 2012 BBM Celebration Of Hawks #13 |
2011 Alternate
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| 2012 BBM Celebration Of Hawks #20 |
2012 Alternate
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| 2012 BBM Celebration Of Hawks #22 |
2013 Alternate
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| 2013 Bandai Owners League 04 #108 |
2013 Turn Back The Clock
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| 2013 BBM Hawks 75th Anniversary #91 |
2014 Alternate
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| 2014 Calbee #190 |
2014 Turn Back The Clock
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| 2014 BBM Young Hawks - Futures And Legends #08 |
2014 Turn Back The Clock
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| 2015 BBM Memories Of Uniform #096 |
Notes:
The only difference between the 1993-98 uniforms and the 1999-2004 uniforms are the red bills on the caps. Similarly, the biggest difference between the 2005 uniforms and the later ones is the yellow bill on the cap.
There were two different versions of the 1980 alternate uniform - one with a black numeral on the front and one with a red number. I didn't use the
Nobuyuki Kagawa card from the Memories Of Uniform set to illustrate this uniform because it was impossible to see which version of the uniform it was.
I think I was able to locate cards for 51 of 64 uniforms. Not too bad for a team going back to 1938!
UPDATE 5/9/17 - Added Daichi Hoshino card showing 2013 Alternate uniform
1 comment:
Weird that in 2014, they wore the 1972-76 home uniform in a Turn Back the Clock game, but instead of going full sansabelt baseball pants, they wore belted pants with a striped tunnel loop made to look like they were sansabelt baseball pants. Do you know who the uniform manufacturer was?
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