If you’ve ever tried to wear two socks, you know there’s a problem fitting into your shoes. To get the dual-sock effect while still being able to don footwear, stirrups were implemented.

High socks were mainstream in Major League Baseball for much of the 20th century. In fact, many players wore a colored stirrup over a white sock to cover their calves.

Friday Flashback: How did we go from the beginning of baseball to an official sock provider? Uni Watch offers a selective timeline of baseball's hosiery history.

The big stirrups-look also became the style for Delino DeShields, who wanted to pay respect to the Negro League era, when ballplayers (of every color, really) wore their socks big, broad and sassy.

With baseball uniform trousers growing ever longer, the long tradition of colorful high socks and stirrups slowly has been disappearing from view.

Imaginative and colorful nicknames for ballplayers, once a baseball staple, are disappearing, going the way of the spitball, the stirrup sock and Sunday doubleheaders. Now we are generally reduced ...

Friday Flashback: How did we go from the beginning of baseball to an official sock provider? Uni Watch offers a selective timeline of baseball's hosiery history.

The Wolverine head logo is featured on the left sleeve, while the team also will be wearing baseball inspired stirrup socks.

And not the fakey sock-that-pretends-to-be-a-stirrup, either. No, I want the real thing. Why is this? Most simply, it's how Carlton Fisk wore his stirrups when I was a kid. The man had a Hall-of-Fame ...