THE STRIPES

The front of the Inaugural Gray Jersey is marked by horizontal tonal grey stripes as tribute to Atlanta’s history as a railroad town. In 1837 a spike was driven into Georgia’s red clay, declaring Central Avenue as Zero Milepost for the most significant transportation endeavor to that point for the South — a railroad from Atlanta to the Midwest. Atlanta’s own took it a step further, building the largest railroad hub of the times, connecting five settlements with four different railroad lines all converging at mile post one.