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Kansas City, Missouri, 1967. The Kansas City Athletics just did something that had never before been done in baseball- and they had MLB’s approval to do it. But Cleveland Indian manager Joe Adcock was having NONE of it.
It was the first time since ever that a major league baseball team had the audacity to deviate from the standard black or dark brown cleats in favor of white ones, and Adcock insisted they were a distraction, and as such should not be allowed on the field.
- https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/april-11-1967-kansas-city-shock-baseball-unveiling-new-white-shoes
- http://exhibits.baseballhalloffame.org/dressed_to_the_nines/shoes.htm
- https://uni-watch.com/2019/03/13/cause-for-celebration-as-to-retain-white-shoes/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleat_(shoe)
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