Turn Ahead The Clock National Lg 1.0

These files represent teams from the Specuial promtion called the "Turn ahead the clock"

which was originated by the Seattle Mariners in the 1998 season and then a few

other clubs for the 1999 season.All but 10 teams joined in the promotion which

were "Future Style"uniforms.Many media and fans criticized the unis and so most

of the unis were only used 1 to 2 times during the season.

ORIGIN

In 1998, Kevin Martinez, former Seattle Mariners marketing director, came up with

the idea to have futuristic jerseys from the 2027 season as an alternative to

"Turn Back the Clock" promotions.The marketing team transformed the Kingdome

to give it a futuristic atmosphere.According to Martinez, Ken Griffey, Jr. was

instrumental in the design of the jerseys and came up with the idea to change

the Mariners' colors from teal, blue and white to red, black, and silver.Majestic

Athletic worked with the Mariners' marketing team to create the uniform.Martinez

himself described the jerseys as "gaudy".The Mariners' opponent during the

promotion was the Kansas City Royals, who according to Martinez, were

"fantastic to work with".Originally, the Mariners played with the jerseys un-tucked

and turned their baseball caps backwards. Griffey, Jr. painted his teammates

baseball cleats with silver spray paint.Griffey, Jr. also convinced teammates to

cut off the sleeves of their uniforms.During the game, the umpires, who were

wearing silver shirts as a part of the promotion, ruled that the un-tucked shirts

gave batters an advantage because they could more easily be hit by a pitch so

the umpires ruled that the players had to tuck them in.The Mariners promotion

was considered successful, unlike the major league wide promotion in 1999.

1999 SEASON PROMOTION

Major League Baseball sold the promotion concept to Century 21 Real Estate.

The New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs, Toronto Blue Jays, Texas Rangers,

Montreal Expos, Houston Astros, Cincinnati Reds, and Los Angeles Dodgers

did not participate in the promotion.The New York Mets changed their names to

the "Mercury Mets" while hosting the Pittsburgh Pirates on July 27, 1999. In game

s, stadiums would use futuristic graphics on their scoreboards as a part of the

promotion.During a Padres and Giants game, fielding positions were renamed.

Shortstop was renamed "intermediate station" and left field was renamed

"left sector".

Most of the unis i found pics the Dbacks was the hardest to make to line up the snake body from back and front.Some of these will not be 100% accurate as some i didnt have any pics of thier pants so it was mostly a guess but from what i can tell most took the pants from the original 1999 uniforms.

Also all the jerseys had much shorter sleeves but that option isnt available to work with for the files