Uniform Colour and Design
The Northstars colours are maroon and gold. In home games the team wears maroon shirts with the team name written in gold lettering. Player numbers - also in gold - appear only on the back of the shirt.
Belfast has the only team in the Baseball Ireland league with such a colour scheme.
When the team plays on the road it changes to grey shirts with `Belfast' written on the front in maroon lettering. These grey shirts were worn for the first time in the opening game of the 2007 season against Twins United in Dublin.
In their first few years of league play, the team wore red shirts with grey lettering but changed to the new colours of maroon and gold ahead of the 2003 season, when Stephen Van Houten was appointed player-coach.
Playing in a city in which colours such as blue and green have become affiliated with one religion or another, the club wanted neutral colours for its own uniform.
On one occasion during the 2006 season the Northstars changed from its traditional maroon and gold and instead played in black shirts.
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