According to Uni-watch.com, The Kansas City Royals will wear their full powder blue uniforms for opening day and all their Saturday home games in 2025.  Additionally, the team will go even more retro with a white front paneled, blue-brimmed, powder blue crowned hat adorned with the team's iconic crown logo.

History of the Royals Wearing Powder Blue Uniforms

According to Uni-watch, the Royals first debuted powder blue road uniforms in 1973 with a Kansas City wordmark on the front, similar to the team's grey and royal blue alternate road jerseys they wear today.

In 1983, when the team switched to button-down jerseys, they used the Royals script they used on their home jersey except in white, which Uni-watch notes is very similar to the current powder blue uniforms.

In 1991, the Royals ditched the powder blue look for a gray uniform on the road, and the powder blue jerseys were not seen again until 2008. The team then " tweaked" the look of the uniform jersey a few times until bringing back the classic design they wore from 1983 to 1991.

If you want to get into the minutia of the tweaks, I'd highly recommend checking out the Uni-watch site. It does a great job chronicling sports team uniform changes and analyzing what casual uniform enthusiasts may miss.

The Royals Hope The Powder Blues Put Butts In The Seats

I couldn't find much information on the Royals wearing complete powder blue uniforms on the Royals website, except that the team uses it as another way to market season ticket packages. With the Powder Blue Six-Pack deal, fans get tickets to six Saturday home games and a superb limited edition Salvador Perez bobblehead decked out in all-powder blue uniforms while wearing the team's alternate batting helmet.

I get it, too. While the whole powder blue uniform is a relatively new development, the tops have been around for a while now.

The New Alternate Caps

Uni-watch noted that the alternate hats the team will wear and the alternate batting helmets they'll wear are the batting practice hats.

I've never been a huge fan of teams wearing the tri-color caps, at least on the field. That's another tip of the cap to the 1980s, as I remember the Orioles, White Sox, and Expos all wearing something like this as part of their 80s uniforms. It doesn't look bad, though, and it might be a cap I'd wear in a more low-profile design.

Final Thoughts

Uni-watch finds the Royals wearing what was essentially their '80s road uniform at home a little odd, and I get that, but these kinds of things are more for the fans and to get folks to buy merch, I think. That's easier done with a home crowd and plenty of souvenir stands and shops around the stadium.

I would have preferred to see the team go all in on the powder blue, and instead of the royal blue jersey with the Kansas City wordmark they introduced as an alternate a few years ago, done that in powder blue. That, however, is because my second-ever baseball jersey was the powder blue road jersey with the Kansas City wordmark on it the team wore from '73 to '83.

What do you think?

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