Travel back to 1916 and check out the Cubs and Reds' gorgeous throwbacks

Your word-a-day calendar may have said July 6, 2016, but when the Reds and Cubs met on Wednesday, they had apparently entered a time portal and emerged in 1916. Before the invention of television, heck, before MLB games were even broadcast on the radio, both of these teams existed and played actual games against each other. 
So it made perfect sense to harken back to those days. Even if neither club did particularly well that season (the Cubs were 67-86 and finish fifth in the NL, the Reds were 60-93 and in last), the uniforms looked great.  
The Reds came out in the sharp gray pinstriped look that they wore from 1915-20, though they wore a flat red sock instead of the Mark Rothko-like red and white hose they wore. 

The caps were extradorinarily flashy, though. Not just gray pinstriped, these had a pirate-captain like red sash at the base of the cap. 

 Meanwhile, the Cubs came out in their cream-colored shirts that featured not only a wishbone-shaped 'C' logo, but had an actual bear cub inside the logo. 

It's pretty similar to that other team that played in Weeghman park -- the Chicago Whales of the Federal League. 

While the Cubs caps were not as flashy as the Reds -- the team wore a simple all-black cap -- their sock game was on point. Not only were they the blocked black and white socks that the team had worn in 1916, but these ones, made by Stance, had the '1916' written on one sock and '2016' on the other. 

While the two teams will return to the present on Thursday,  there will surely be a small voice inside the head of every player that wonders whether, even if just for a moment, they could travel back in time. 
And in addition to looking sharp, the throwbacks might have been good luck, too ... for Cinncinnati. "These jerseys are 1-0," Reds manager Bryan Price told MLB.com's Mark Sheldon, after his team defeated the Cubs, 5-3.