When Kansas City Royals had to put on the opposition team jersey

Back on June 12, 1977, Jim Ksicinski arrived at the Milwaukee County Stadium to prepare the visiting team's clubhouse for the baseball game being held that afternoon. It was the second of a three-game series between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Kansas City Royals, with the Brewers having one win ahead of the hosts, with https://www.australianonlinecasinosites.com/ hosting the odds.

But Ksicinski realized something was off as his key couldn't fit into the lock. The key failed to turn, and he found out that the door has already been unlocked or opened.

"Then I pushed the door, it was open, and I saw right away there were no jerseys," he said to the Associated Press. "It was a very neat job. Every chair was in front of every locker, the same as we left them yesterday."

Seven shirts were reported to have escaped the heist: pitcher Jim Colborn's, which the burglars failed to see, and the six shirts Ksicinski took home to wash after the last game. All 53 jerseys were stolen, alongside 20 gloves, 10 pairs of cleats and 15 warm-up jackets were swiped by the burglars.

Rather than have the Royals' players compete in T-shirts, the team's equipment manager Al Zych suggested they asked the Brewers to lend them their road's jerseys. The light blue jerseys contrast well enough with the Brewers' home white jerseys, and they were also the same hue as the Royals' purloined uniforms.

Since the two teams play against each other most times, they only look at the faces rather than the uniforms more often, this is what Brewers pitcher Jerry Augustine said to MLB.com via jeux de casino argent reel at the time.

The scorekeepers and the audience, however, had a hard time dealing with the sartorial switch-up as it was a bit disorienting for them considering that three players were putting on the number five jerseys: Brewers' Jamie Quirk, Royals Hal McRae putting on Quirk's road jersey, and Royal George Brett. Brett was allowed to put on his jersey as his uniform was among the jerseys that weren't spotted by the burglars.

Speaking to New York Times, Colborn said: "I’ve heard some funny stories like you can’t tell the players [apart] without a scorecard—or with one."

While this went down as one of the greatest jokes in MLB history, the series game went down with the Brewers taking a 4-0 victory.