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1960s

1960s Throwback Jerseys

Every season of the 1960s, 1960 to 1969. Pick a year and see what turned up on eBay: championship throwbacks, rookie replicas, deep cuts you forgot existed. Shopping for someone born in the 1960s? Their birth year pins the gift to one season, and that season's champions are right on its page. How to pick the right one.

What did 1960s jerseys look like?

The last decade of flannel baseball and the first of real television money, which pushed teams toward colors that read on screen. Basketball and football stayed on durene and early nylon mesh. Fits were trimmer than the 1950s but nothing like the tailoring that came later.

This is the decade the leagues stopped being small. The AFL launched in 1960 and ran as a rival league until the 1970 merger, so an AFL jersey is a ten-year window by definition. The NHL doubled from six teams to twelve in 1967, and baseball expanded twice. Player names began appearing on backs during the decade, starting with the 1960 White Sox. An AFL crest is therefore a hard pre-1970 marker on its own, and several AFL clubs changed name or city inside the decade, which narrows a shirt further than the logo alone suggests.

Who made 1960s jerseys?

The maker on the tag is the first thing to check against a claimed year. It rules a fake out, never in, because a counterfeit copies the tag too.

NBA
  • 1960–1969 team-by-team makers like Sand-Knit, Rawlings and Wilson; no league-wide supplier
NFL
  • 1960–1969 team-by-team makers: Wilson, Champion, Apex One, Starter, Logo Athletic, Puma, Adidas or Nike
MLB
  • 1960–1969 team-by-team makers: Rawlings, Wilson, Sand-Knit and others
NHL
  • 1960–1969 CCM and other team outfitters

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Who won each year?

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