Nearly three decades removed from their most recent World Series appearance, the Los Angeles Dodgers are back.

The LA Dodgers—and their Brooklyn ancestors—have played over 12,000 games since they first introduced their now-familiar, classic look back in 1938. With a small handful of exceptions, the Dodger uniform has been a steady and familiar presence, both home and away, with its blue underscored script lettering. The primary team color is blue—Dodger Blue—and it's hard to imagine that it's ever been anything otherwise. While the Dodgers franchise is indelibly linked to the use of script on a baseball uniform, they were not the first big league club to use cursive letterforms. The 1914 Federal League Buffalo entry showcased their city name in script. The Detroit Tigers of the early 1930s used a script "Detroit" both at home and on the road for several seasons. But more than three quarters of a century after their introduction, the Dodgers and script-decorated uniforms are definitively joined together.

The Dodger franchise has been linked to the use of the color blue since 1938. This was not always the case. The 1937 Dodgers adopted kelly green as their primary hue, a one season outlier. The team was identified by the use of red and sometimes black in the earliest days of the 20th century.

Baseball innovator Larry MacPhail is responsible for making the Dodgers who they are today, at least in terms of aesthetics. He instituted a host of changes upon joining the Brooklyn franchise in January 1938, including significant revisions to the on-field look of the team.

The Dodgers unveiled their uniforms on March 14, 1938. Even though this account does not mention it, the team's home caps for that one season were white with a royal blue "B."