The Chicago Inter-Ocean reporter, covering a game staged in Chicago on May 29, 1872, described "the Baltimore nine, clad in yellow pants, white shirts, white hats, and ugly looking black and yellow stockings."
A reporter from the Chicago Inter-Ocean, who covered a baseball game in Chicago on May 29, 1872, wrote about the Baltimore team wearing yellow pants, white shirts, white hats, and unattractive black and yellow stockings.