They're not the only team. The San Francisco Giants, for example, don't have player names on their home jerseys.
The Green Bay Packers, following the league's mandate, put player's names on their jerseys beginning with the 1970 season.
The Chicago White Sox had names on their names for the road jerseys in 1960. In 1961, they had it for the home as well as their road jerseys.
The helmet is solid black with a gold central stripe and small white player numbers on the forehead. Last names were added to the jerseys in 1970, as part of a new NFL mandate resulting from the AFL-NFL merger (the AFL teams had last names on the back of their jerseys). In 1997, the team switched to rounded numbers on the jersey to match the number font (Futura Condensed) on the helmets, and a Steelers logo was added to the left side of the jersey.
The Red Sox home jerseys do not have the player names on them, because it is assumed that all of the fans at Fenway will already know all of the players anyway.
It is tradition for them to not wear their names on the backs of their jerseys.
A lot of the older teams that were around 100 years ago don't wear their names on their jerseys, a combination of tradition, and the sentiment that "a true fan will know his player's numbers!"
It tends to be a matter of home team etiquette overcoming blatant commercial advertising of a player's name. Teams like the Red Sox and Dodgers and Yankees (the Red Sox are the only one I can name for sure) don't put the names of the players on the home jerseys, probably because the hometown faithful are expected to know who they are. On the road jerseys, however, their names are listed, as is the case with any teams that have blank home jerseys that I know of. **** Correction. The Yankees do not have their names on their home jerseys OR their away jerseys.
Never StartedThe New York Yankees never put names on their Jerseys.
The White Sox, in 1960, became the first team to put names on their jerseys. As baseball popularity grew, other teams began to do the same. At this point all teams except the Yankees, wear jerseys with their names on them.
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No they did not. This season, the Canucks are periodically wearing replica jerseys from 1970 to commemorate their 40th year in the league, and they do not have player names on the back.