We Were Born With a Tail?

On the heels of our 1986-inspired tour of Mets unifalia, Paul Lukas of ESPN.com’s Uni Watch was kind enough to share asample image of the Ol’ Perfesser himself showing what the original Mets uniform was supposed to look like (standing in front of what the original Flushing Meadows Municipal Stadium was supposed to look like, no less). The tail that almost nobody liked in 1993-94? Its ancestor was intended to drag out of the gate right behind the expansion Mets in 1962. No reason given for us not wearing tails from the start, though we can assume that Casey wuz gonna give one to Marvelous Marv, but wuz afraid he’d step on it.