Where have you gone... stir ups?

The nation needs you more than you will know... ho ho ho... hey hey hey

So this past weekend SportsTalk 1280 WHTK held it's charity kickball tournament. Now, I'm the kind of guy who loves athletic competitions for charity. I showed up to the game dusting off some relics from high school baseball; my old cap, pants and of course my hosiery, the stir up. Back in the 1980's and especially in little league in the 1990's all ballplayers had prominent socks. The Reds made sure their players wore them up high as a team uniform code.

But as the 1990's allowed more players to sign shoe deals and make uniforms a fashion statement and overall disdain for stir ups, they began to vanish. This was a sad way of thinking for me. I grew up with the Norman Rockwell view of baseball with kids dressing up like their heroes those ball players wore the high stir up, at least a visible stir up.

We need to bring these back. A few players have but that's not enough. We need more people to ditch the solid color sock and don the sanitary sock covered by the stir up! Who is with me!

Also, those socks with the faux stir up do not count... only cheap coaches buy thoses!