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Detroit Tigers: Five strange quirks in Tigers uniform history

The Detroit Tigers have one of the most iconic uniforms in all of professional sports. The old English D has always been one of the most highly regarded logos in baseball, while the Tigers have also had one of my favorite road uniforms. Both the block lettering from years ago and the cursive script used today have always been a great look.

Yet the Tigers have done some experimenting with their uniforms over the years, and some of the results were pretty strange. Here we look at five times that the Tigers went off-script.

1927: One of a few times that the Tigers decided to abandon the old English D for a short time, for one year, in 1927, they used a Tiger’s head as the logo on the left side of the jersey.