A style from Keds , designed rather much like a boat shoe , but with stitching like a baseball . They were first produced in the late 1990's, then went out of production. They returned to the Keds product line in 1999 because of popular demand. A term sometimes used for basketball shoes. Typically played outside in nice weather, or in overheated gymnasiums in the winter.
Players typically wear tank tops, shorts, and sneakers .
For Baby Boomer basketball before 1970, the players invariably wore Chucks , as in the example to the left. They also wore real shorts back then, not a male version of bloomers like Michael Jordan wore. Serious market competition, first from adidas and then Puma Clydes , came along in the late 1960's and early 1970's. During the 1960's and 1970's, they marketed their sneakers under the Bata name. One of their best remembered models is the Bata Bullet .