Not everything has come up roses for the New York Mets in 2022.
A day after the Mets became the first team in baseball to win 20 games, Uni Watch's Paul Lukas made an interesting discovery that's relatively insignificant in the grand scheme of things, but will bother those who are fans of MLB uniform history, and telling the accurate story of the game's past as a whole.
Ahead of their home opener in April, the Mets unveiled a statue dedicated to Tom Seaver, the greatest player in franchise history. The only problem is that the artist got the "4" on the back of Seaver's jersey wrong:
Interestingly, the "4" on the front of the uniform does match what Seaver actually wore:
The fact that the artist did the "4" on the front of Seaver's uniform correctly makes it that much more glaring that it was done incorrectly on the back. It's the type of thing that you wouldn't notice until someone points it out to you, but certainly it will be hard not to think of it every time you see the statue now.
Lukas noted in his story that he double checked to make sure that the Mets didn't have a different number font on the back of their uniforms at any point. They didn't -- not when Seaver was playing, or at any other time. And even if they did, the numbers on the front and back of the statue don't match.
With all that said, it would be funny if Steve Cohen and the Mets used this as an opportunity to be self deprecating and created an alternate uniform with the type of "4" mistakenly featured on the back of Seaver's statue.
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