The team that is now the Orix Buffaloes began life in 1936 as Hankyu and played their home games at Hankyu Nishinomiya Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo - just west of Osaka and just north of Koshien Stadium. The team added "Braves" to their name in 1947. The team was sold to Orix following the 1988 season and renamed the Orix Braves. In 1991, Orix (despite having promised to stay in Nishinomiya) moved the team to Kobe Sports Park Baseball Stadium in Kobe (which has a corporate name now but I see no compelling reason for me to use it) and renamed the team the Orix Blue Wave. Following the 2004 season, the team "merged" with the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes (really they assimilated them into the Orix collective) and the team was renamed the Orix Buffaloes (and moved to Osaka Dome which also has a corporate name that I don't seem any reason to use).
I am not including Kintetsu's uniform history here - I will do that in a separate post.
Once again I am using The History Of Uniform and Professional Baseball Uniforms Encyclopedia 1936-2013 as my primary sources as well as Yakyu Baka's Uniform posts.
1936 Home
1936 Away
1937-40 Home
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| 2012 BBM No-Hitters #10 |
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| 2012 BBM No-Hitters #04 |
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| 2006 BBM Nostalgic Baseball #061 |
1940-44 Home
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| 2000 BBM 20th Century Best 9 #004 |
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| 2012 BBM No-Hitters #13 |
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| 2012 BBM No-Hitters #15 |
1947-50 Home
1947-52 Away
1951-54 Home
1951-54 Away
1955-59 Home
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| 2000 BBM 20th Century Best 9 #132 |
1955-59 Away
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| 2006 BBM Nostalgic Baseball #094 |
1960-61 Home
1960-61 Away
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| 2009 BBM Hankyu Braves Memorial #37 |
1962-63 Home
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| 2000 BBM 20th Century Best 9 #250 |
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| 2006 BBM Nostalgic Baseball #104 |
1963-69 Home
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| 2014 BBM 80th Anniversary Pitchers Edition #24 |
1963-69 Away
1969-71 Home
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| 2015 BBM Memories Of Uniform #073 |
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| 2015 BBM Memories Of Uniform #074 |
1972-74 Away
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| 2011 BBM Legend Of The Bs #38 |
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| 2011 BBM Legend Of The Bs #22 |
1975-79 Away
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| 1978 Yamakatsu JY6 |
1980-84 Home
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| 1983 Calbee #481 |
1980-83 Away
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| 1980 Calbee #282 |
1984 Away
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| 2015 BBM Memories Of Uniform #075 |
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| 1988 Takara Braves #17 |
1984-88 Away
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| 2009 BBM Hankyu Braves Memorial #36 |
1989-90 Home
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| 2015 BBM Memories Of Uniform #076 |
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| 1990 Lotte #34 |
1991-2000 Home
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| 1999 BBM #452 |
1991-2000 Away
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| 2015 BBM Memories Of Uniform #077 |
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| 2001 Upper Deck #103 |
2001-04 Away
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| 2002 BBM 1st Version #289 |
2005 Home
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| 2005 BBM 1st Version #173 |
2005 Away
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| 2005 BBM 1st Version #177 |
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| 2005 BBM 2nd Version #629 |
2006-08 Home
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| 2006 BBM 1st Version #125 |
2006-08 Away
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| 2006 BBM 1st Version #116 |
2006-10 Home Alternate
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| 2007 BBM 2nd Version #575 |
2009 Away
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| 2009 BBM 2nd Version #583 |
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| 2011 BBM Hometown Heroes #143 |
2010 Bs
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| 2015 BBM Memories Of Uniform #078 |
2010 Throwback
2011-14 Home
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| 2011 BBM 2nd Version #542 |
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| 2012 BBM 1st Version #097 |
2011 Hankyu Throwback
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| 2012 BBM Pedigree #16 |
2011 Kintetsu Throwback
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| 2012 BBM Pedigree #20 |
2011-13 Alternate
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| 2012 Calbee #166 |
2012 Hankyu Throwback
2012 Kintetsu Throwback
2012 Red
2013 Bs
2013 Orix Throwback
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| 2013 Front Runner Orix Season Summary #07 |
2013 Kintetsu Throwback
2013 "Shining Red"
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| 2013 Front Runner Orix Season Summary #19 |
2014 "Stream Blue"
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| 2015 BBM Memories Of Uniform #084 |
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| 2015 BBM 1st Version #049 |
2015 Away
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| 2015 BBM 2nd Version #CP54 |
2015 Alternate Gold
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| 2015 Calbee #175 |
2015 "OriHime Day"
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| 2015 Calbee #ES-14 |
2015 Orix Throwback
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2016 "Orihime"
2016 "Oritachi"
This is the only team so far that PBUE designates home and away uniforms for anything earlier than 1952 although HOU does not. I decided to use PBUE's designations.
There are a lot of differences between HOU and PBUE for the uniforms in the late 40's. I tried to make as much sense of it as I could although ultimately it really didn't matter that much as I didn't have any cards for those uniforms.
Orix has had more alternate and throwback uniforms since 2010 or so than Carter has pills (as my father-in-law used to say). I have no idea if I've got them all listed or not.
Some of the differences between uniforms are pretty subtle. The logo on the hat changed between 2005 and 2006 so that's the only real difference in the away and home alternate uniforms. Hankyu added player names to the back of the uniforms after 1974 - that's the only difference in the home uniforms that I can see. The away uniforms changed from grey to blue but that change doesn't always show up clearly in the cards of the era. I also can't tell the difference between the away uniforms used from 1951-54 and 1962-63. I'm pretty sure that every card I have showing this uniform is from the latter period but I could be wrong.
The 1937-40 uniforms had two different caps - since I had cards showing both for the home uniform I used both of them.
3/5/2017 UPDATE - Added cards for 2015 Osaka Classic and "Natsu-no Jin" uniforms.
3 comments:
Great post! By the way, do you know who JP is for that one card?
JP was Jeremy Powell
Thanks! I'm not sure why he went by JP that year.
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