Met Shoes

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'm looking at the pictures of Mookie Wilson in the photo thread. I'm recalling how through most of the Mookie era the Mets all seemed to be shot in Pony baseball shoes. In the shot of Mookie dodging the wild pitch in game six, seems to be wearing Asics. (I could be wrong there.)

Though I follow the Mets as closely now as I did then, it's in a different way, of course. I couldn't telll you now what anybody wears on their feet. I do know that nobody wears stirrups. They may all wear sanitary sox, but few let them show.

So, tell me. Did the Mets then or do they now have an official shoe? My assumption is that at one time teams could designate an official uniform cobbler, but the union fought that, likely under the auspices that a player needs to select for himself what is most appropriate for his needs in such an important and sensitive area as footwear, but in reality because teams were getting footwear endorsement money that players should have gotten.

But that's all guesswork. What's the real story? Am I right that all the Mets wore blue-and-orange Ponys in the early eighties, or do I jsut have Neil Allen on the brain.

[Zvon]

......more importantly....
did Mookie wear underwear?

HA!
I kid.

Thru details in my drawings I did notice the Mets wore Ponys as well as other shoes thru the mid eighties.
Yearbooks should be a good indicator if they were wearing a uniform shoe at any point.
Call me a girlyman, but I miss the ol sturrup look.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

My guess would be your guess: Players, especially today, through agents, arrange their own deals with equipment vendors who prolly work to provide footwear that conforms to actual uniform requirements of color.

So while a make of shoe isn't a part of the team uni, the design of it prolly is.

Met fashion footwear show:

Ron Darling in blue ROOS, 1986:


Ojeda in blue Pumas, 1986


Knight in black (or blue) Nikes, meets Paul in black Adidas, 1986


Gregg Jefferies in blue Nikes, 1989


Mazzilli in black Addidas, 1979


Gilkey in blue Reeboks, 1998:


Kingman in white Pumas, 1976:


Piazza in black Asics, 2002(?)

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Seaver in Spalding, 1983

[Guest Edgy DC]

Stearns in black Pumas:



Doc in black Nikes:



I guess if there was a time when they was an official team footware, it's going to be hard to isolate it, unless the yearbooks say so. Although here Koosman's wearing the same black Adidas with orange-red trim that Mazz has above.

[Zvon]

lmao.
great choice for the Piazza pic JD.
I know, it does show his footware.

[Frayed Knot]

IIRC, the Mets were one of the later teams to even permit their players to
"show" the shoes they were wearing. Prior to that - somewhere around
the mid/late '70s I'd guess - they were in the "all black" mode. Players
probably did wear the shoes of their choice but individual shoe contracts
were unlikely since they were mostly indistinguishable with their stripes
and other marks colored in.

[seawolf17]

="Johnny Dickshot"]Ron Darling in blue ROOS, 1986:

Roos? ROOS!?! Ronnie, you gotta be kidding me. What, did he have to keep change in the little pouch in case he needed to buy something on the field?

[Guest Edgy DC]

I have no idea what Roos are. I thought those were Ponys. Looking closely, it seems to say "ROOS," though.

What kind of jive-ass shoes are they?

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

They had little pockets with velcro closures sewn into the tounges.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Did they suck?` Did they get people beat up?

I'm sorry. You weren't made to wear them, were you?

[soupcan]

Roos w/ pockets. As in Kanga-ROOS...

[DocTee]

It wasn't pocket change that most people kept secreted in their Roos

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I wouldn't have been caught dead in them. IIRC, they came out around the same time as Reeboks did. I thought guys who wore Reeboks were fruits too.

I do seem to recall having a detachable velco pocket to store keys & cash on my shoes for running at one point. That a 50-cent accessory made the whole concept of ROOS worthless sort of explains why they aren't around today.

Unless they are...

(checking)

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

http://www.zappos.com/n/es/d/722001412/page/1.html

[Guest Edgy DC]

Any sign of Zips and LA Gear out there in Discredited Footwareland