When I was working on Oriole Park at Camden Yards back in 1991 I got to design the usher uniforms. I wanted to create something that was classier that the usual polo shirts ushers wore at the time so I looked to the past. This was before the internet so there was no easy searchable databases to see what ushers in the old days wore. So I had to think outside the box. What I did was look in the back grounds of team photos and more often than not an usher or hot dog salesman would sneak into the background, and soon I had a nice collection of vintage usher reference to work from.
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