Everything old is new again, including stirrups

Brandon Meyer (front) and Erik Nyquist wear the Elks new oldies-style home uniform. (Photo by Bruce Strand)

by Bruce Strand, Sports editor

When stirrup socks were worn by every baseball player for about a century, they ranked behind only neckties as items of apparel that surely will baffle archaeologists digging into our strata centuries from now. “What in the world were these things for?” the excavators will ask.

  
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