Dave Parker & Grant Jackson rock canary yellow poly unis & pillbox lids while cuffing butts in the dugout. Their team, the 1979 “We Are Family” Pittsburgh Pirates, was the last to win games 5, 6, and 7 to capture a World Series title. Thirty years later, the Phils hope to match the feat, sans nicotine.
Aside from the Angels, this was the first team I latched on to as a kid. How could you not dig those uniforms, Parker, Stargell, Candelaria, Tekulve, Lacy, Easler, Madlock and Garner?
They don’t make ‘em like they used to.
