Stirrups

There are two parts. A white sock called a "sanitary" and then the stirrup that you wear over it. A travel team my Son played on one year had them as part of the uniform they wore a few years back. Kind of Retro...

They're back ! .... and are very hot among the players today.....I see a come back in the making. I'm in the sporting goods business and I can't keep them on the shelf. Who would have ever imagined that?

My son's hs used them and they did look very classy. They are very popular here in central CA.

It's what we wore in my playing days. I love the look. Especially better than the pants down to the shoes.

My son wears them whenever he can...especially for the conference games. He even managed to find a pair for summer ball.

It's hard to find a pair of "sanies" to wear these days... They will be back and like all good fads they'll be welcome by some...

The stirrup look so is much better than the pants down to the spikes. The pants down to the spikes looks awful. Even the colored socks are a good look.

The pants down to the spike look seemed to be what the majority of players prefered on my son's high school team. He was one of the few who wore the high socks.

When I played, we had stirrups. The only thing I didn't like about them was the feel of the stirrups on the bottom of my feet.

Son wears white baseball or s****r soxs with his stirrups.... when he wore the thin "sanies" dirt would get in the sox.

baseball trivia - The white socks are called "Sanitary" socks because they were originally used to help protect a player's wounds (from cleats, etc) from blood poisoning caused by the dye used to color the stirrups!

i was always an old school stirrup guy. but when you have aged some,and have to were them.the long pants tend to feel more.............. comfortable. i've come to like the long pants, and i was not a fan of them at all.

So a sanitary sock is just a regular baseball sock just white?

Is this what you old timers used to wear?

http://www.weplaysports.com/SSK/sanitary/socks/

Catch43:
It was a very thin sock, they were actually called sanitary hose because they were so thin. Underneath the sanitary some would wear a very short "wick" sock that would look like an ankle height sock you wear today under a pair of sneakers.

So it was: wick sock, sanitary hose, and then your stirrup on top. Blouse your pants and away you go!!!

PS: my favorite brand was "Twin Cities" (I believe... some of you ohter gusy surely remember)

The only ones baseballexpress even offers are these:
http://www.baseballexp.com/Baseball-Apparel/Socks-Stirr.../1/view/32/index.pro

Doesnt even look like stirrups once i put my cleats on!

I found this, but the price is ridiculous...I guess you gotta pay to look classy...

http://baseballjunk.com/stirrups.htm

A brief history of the stirrup from the New York Times!

http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/a-brief-history-of-the-stirrup/

I thought this part of the article was interesting:

The most popular look today seems to be having your pants pulled down around the tops of the shoes, which is actually how the early baseball players of the 1840’s and 50’s wore their pants.

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Originally posted by Catch43:
Doesnt even look like stirrups once i put my cleats on!

Everybody knows you've got to learn how to stretch them!

Skipper - Who can forget Twin Cities!!! The only thing I didn't like about the sanitarys was dirt getting between your toes!

Now that these are back "in", when will mesh back caps come into vogue on the field? You see them all the time now but I've never seen a team wearing them yet.

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Originally posted by Catch43:
The only ones baseballexpress even offers are these:
http://www.baseballexp.com/Baseball-Apparel/Socks-Stirr.../1/view/32/index.pro

Doesnt even look like stirrups once i put my cleats on!

I found this, but the price is ridiculous...I guess you gotta pay to look classy...

http://baseballjunk.com/stirrups.htm

Dude. Show some "can do" attitude here.
Back in the day the stirrups started off just like the baseball express ones you showed. The discriminating player got these, cut the stirrup at middle bottom and sewed (well ok mom or girlfriend sewed..) a length of wide elastic strap to each of the cut ends. This got rid of the "seam in the middle feel" and allowed one to adjust the height of the stirrup to fit the whim of the moment. (Sometimes coaches and umps would tell us the stirrups were too high if you can believe it)

they are very popular in the dallas area

the arlington a's and dallas mustangs organizations have adopted striped stirrups for their teams

many high school teams are following suit.

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Originally posted by Just Me:
The discriminating player....

Is that another term for "mommas boy"?

I've been seeing a bunch of major leaguers with stirrups now. Also, I saw a minor league game, and the whole team had stirrups- that must have been forced...

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Originally posted by Beezer:

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Originally posted by Just Me:
The discriminating player....

Is that another term for "mommas boy"?

Naw.
More like the fashion plate of the team