‘Wardrobe malfunction’ prompted R.A. Dickey to opt for his baseball look
TORONTO — For Josh Donaldson, the choice to go to white hi-top shoes and knee socks was clearly planned. But for Blue Jays teammate R.A. Dickey, wearing his uniform socks knee-high on the diamond happened years ago by accident.
Donaldson, the reigning American League MVP, turned heads Friday night when he took the field against the New York Yankees combining the old and new — knee-high blue socks and gleaming white shoes that were straight off the hardwood. The third baseman looked like he was wearing searchlights on his feet.
Dickey, who wears more conventional baseball footwear, found his fashion statement by chance when he made his high school varsity baseball team in eighth grade.
“In high school you don’t really get to chose your uniform, right. So the uniform I was given the pants were way too short for me, because I got to choose last because I was the youngest,” the 41-year-old knuckleballer recalled Saturday. “And so ever since then I wore them (the socks) high. And then as I got older and learned more about baseball, I really appreciated kind of the old-school way of doing things and so it just kind of fit in.