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The History of Baseball Pants
Early baseball uniforms had essentially knickers. And now we have so many of the players who wear their pants all the way down to their shoe tops like footy pajamas. When you cover up the socks, you're basically dishonoring baseball's hosiery heritage. Some players have gone so far as to have a strap that goes underneath their shoes to keep it from showing at all.
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