Where Everyone’s Uni Number Is 57

The first link to the old catchers gear, isn’t catchers equpipment, it is umpire equipment. You can see an old cliker, ball bag, and plate brush in the lower left hand corner.

the ebay auction for the cubs game stirrups was reported to me by reader ian borkowski. it was included in an interview question for paul for his upcoming profiles interview. thanks ian and keep the questions coming…

Great ‘Burgh stuff-
Interesting subtle move by Willie Stargell in his early days that I always thought was very cool. In this picture, (hard to see, but trust me), on the flap of the old spikes he has his number (8), but instead of the numeral he has it written in the Roman Numeral version “VIII”.
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The goalie mask has been quite a source of innovation over the past 60 years. The current design, worn by almost all the goalies in the NHL, has been widely accepted as being the best due to the reduction of the cage bars, giving the goalie the most unobstructed view of the ice in front of him. However, there still are some minor design “flaws”. If a puck is shot hard enough, the puck can get stuck in the cage. See here with Ed Belfour:
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This goalie mask you have presented, Paul, looks like the goalie is wearing reading glasses. And the additional amount of caging across his face may obstruct his view a little more compared to the standard worn by the majority of goalies.

Any word on who this netminder is and where he plays?

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Any word on who this netminder is and where he plays?[/quote]

The goaltender in the picture is Marco Streit. Last year he played with Rapperswil-Jona in the Swiss League. I would know, I sent the tip :)

[quote comment=”6234″]This goalie mask you have presented, Paul, looks like the goalie is wearing reading glasses. [/quote]

Reminds me of link. I went to college with his son and we were in the same fraternity. We used to make him wear his Dad’s suits to formals.

[quote comment=”6229″]I may be wrong, but it looked like Cowboys TE Anthony Fasano had an accent over the “o” in his name in last night’s name. I don’t think I’ve ever seen his name rendered with an accent, so I thought that was weird.[/quote]

Im good friends with 2 of this cousins (whose last name is also Fasano) Ill ask them.

[quote comment=”6225″]I ignored the rules. It was a Sunday and there was no one there at all.

The Pirates changes to black and gold in 1948. The red Hornets jersey was labeled as ‘1940s’ and the black and gold one ‘1950s’ (the museum doesn’t know where they’re from?), so you are correct in assuming they switched colors around the same time. The Penguins entered the league in the 67-68 season with link. This is from NHLUniforms.com, “On January 30, 1980, on the heels of world championships won by the Pirates and Steelers, the Penguins ditched their two-tone blue color scheme for black and gold, to match the colors of the city’s two title teams. The Boston Bruins protested, to no avail, claiming they had a monopoly on the black and gold color scheme”.
The linkwere black and gold from their inception in 1933, but did spend 1943 in green and white when they merged with the Eagles to form the Steagles due to lack of personnel because of WWII.[/quote]

The Penguins original colors were baby blue on navy blue, not purple. Great color combo.

The Hornet logo is actually a cartoon hornet face with a hockey helmet on.

You have to like how all three major pro teams in the Burgh support black and gold…it is the city of champions.

The “nike” hat looks like one of the bootleg wool hats you can buy at flea markets, and from street vendors in the city. Kind of like fake coach purses and things of that nature, they also make fake nike gear. However, you would think that a surgeon would be able to buy a real Nike hat and not some $5 knockoff.

[quote comment=”6247″]The “nike” hat looks like one of the bootleg wool hats you can buy at flea markets, and from street vendors in the city. Kind of like fake coach purses and things of that nature, they also make fake nike gear. However, you would think that a surgeon would be able to buy a real Nike hat and not some $5 knockoff.[/quote]

I’m pretty sure he had the hat on inside-out, and we are seeing the mess that is the back of the embroidery.

[quote comment=”6238″]Those are great throwback style jeseys on the HS team, lets hope to see more of this soon.
Those Garden State football jerseys make me asshamed of my heritage.[/quote]

THAT is what makes you ashamed of being from Jersey???

I could have sworn I saw that goalie mask somewhere before, but it turns out it was just here… link

Yesterday, SI.com had a photo gallery of images from the new Madden ’07. After looking them over, I have a BIG bone to pick with them. link, link, link, link, link, link, link and link are all Nike athletes but are depicted in the game with Reebok shoes. Not cool. Now Reebok is buying out the rights to everything! Plus it was nice to see such accurate socks on the link and the new link. Also, link and the ball seems to be a link.

I’ve never been to the Western PA Sports Museum, but it looks pretty great. Was in Pgh this weekend, and didn’t stop by.

I did see, though, that there’s a statue commemorating Franco Harris’ Immaculate Reception in the airport, and I was impressed to note that the uniform looks pretty right on. Can’t find a pic, but it brightened my day…

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I don’t think it was ever proven, but a while ago we noted that Reggie Bush was fined for wearing his gold and black Adidas with visible stripes on the field. I don’t remember any photo evidence, but I came across link yesterday. It looks like a personalized link with the rubber toe cap, but it’s certainly not an exact match because of the velcro, the shape of the tongue and the heel detail. Maybe Reggie’s got his own cleat! Any word on when the new Bushs come out?

Are the Bucs going to wear link this season. I hope the trend toward black jerseys doesn’t continue…

i think the 1986 mets unis are a great uniform, espcially with the stirrups. these unis look A LOT better than some of the unis in baseball today. why can’t other teams put some effort into making a classy uniform and not junk?

[quote comment=”6252″][quote comment=”6238″]Those are great throwback style jeseys on the HS team, lets hope to see more of this soon.
Those Garden State football jerseys make me asshamed of my heritage.[/quote]

THAT is what makes you ashamed of being from Jersey???

I could have sworn I saw that goalie mask somewhere before, but it turns out it was just here… link
Hey Now!

[quote comment=”6265″]That sounds right, Anthony. I remember a rule being introduced after link restricting the horse collar tackle.

And someone mentioned link the other day. As a Cowboy fan, I just about blew my top. It was then that I swore off T.O. as a horrible person.[/quote]

I am the rarest of all creatures, a Cowboy fan who was born and raised in Philadelphia…

T.O’s excuse for that which I heard recently was that he asked someone why the hole was in the roof. The response was “That’s so God can watch his favorite team.” So T.O. figured the star in the middle of the field was the only place he could glorify God.

Shold you believe that was his reason, I have some lovely land in Florida to offer you!!!

For some reason the links are not working if you want to see them just copy and paste I guess. Sorry.

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[quote comment=”6270″][quote comment=”6265″]That sounds right, Anthony. I remember a rule being introduced after link restricting the horse collar tackle.

And someone mentioned link the other day. As a Cowboy fan, I just about blew my top. It was then that I swore off T.O. as a horrible person.[/quote]

I am the rarest of all creatures, a Cowboy fan who was born and raised in Philadelphia…

T.O’s excuse for that which I heard recently was that he asked someone why the hole was in the roof. The response was “That’s so God can watch his favorite team.” So T.O. figured the star in the middle of the field was the only place he could glorify God.

Shold you believe that was his reason, I have some lovely land in Florida to offer you!!![/quote]

TO was glorifying himself – which in TO’s world, means he is glorifying God. The man thinks he can walk on water – got news for you TO – I can too once it hits 32 degrees outside and I put on my skates.

Anyway, I’m starting to wonder that, if everyone were to suddenly ignore T.O., would he keel over an die? I think it’s worth a shot.[/quote]

The thing is – as long as ESPN, et al, continue to jam TO down our throats, we really don’t have much choice. Chad Johnson is getting to be the same way.

pleasant news I just heard…the Raptors are tweaking the unis once again, and they are moving away from the purple!!

Their unis will feature a lot more red, and the dino logo is gone….in its place, the Raptors will use what was their secondary logo which is the claw.

This is completely off topic but while i was at a local burger joint the other day, our waiter (a beautiful blonde by the way) was wearing clean white socks that went to her knee, the kicker? They had red and blue stripes around the calf in a thin-thick-thin pattern. Truly a beautiful spectacle.

I too wish that all of the sports news outlets would simply stop talking about TO. It’s just too hard to avoid him because he makes the cover story EVERYWHERE! Grrr, frustrating.

TO’s claim to Christianity and God is a bunch of crock. If he really was, he wouldn’t act the way he does by drawing so much attention to himself and getting into contract disputes over more money.

And yes, Matthew, those Cowboys helmets are white. But they are only worn with those jerseys.

Riff,

Reggie does have his own sig cleat; it’s coming out at the beginning of the season. I find it interesting that he still wears Nike gloves though.

Why the hell are the Cowboys wearing throwbacks in an exhibition game??

[quote comment=”6284″][quote comment=”6283″]I too wish that all of the sports news outlets would simply stop talking about TO. It’s just too hard to avoid him because he makes the cover story EVERYWHERE! Grrr, frustrating.

TO’s claim to Christianity and God is a bunch of crock. If he really was, he wouldn’t act the way he does by drawing so much attention to himself and getting into contract disputes over more money.

And yes, Matthew, those Cowboys helmets are white. But they are only worn with those jerseys.[/quote]

I was curious about the helmets, thanks Riff. Do you know if they plan to wear these as alternates at all during the regular season?[/quote]

As far as I know the Cowboys will only wear those throwbacks on Thanksgiving. They did the same thing last year too.

[quote comment=”6227″]So what is that sleeve patch on the hornet’s jersey supposed to be? It certainly doesn’t look like a hornet.[/quote]

Umm, a very angry hive?!?

That first link doesn’t work, but you can search or just trust me. It’s not Cyrillic.

As leaked a few weeks ago…

“In essence, fans could not identify many of the new players without looking at a scorecard, and the old-fashioned scoreboard isn’t conducive to associating players with their numbers.

“I think baseball in general has a pretty high turnover from year to year,” McDonough said. “And I think with your younger fans, those impressions are made at such an early age, and I think it just makes it a little bit easier [to identify players].

“I think this year, by the time the season ends, we’ll have close to 40 players who have been on the roster. We’re kind of seeing that trend continue.”

The Cubs decided to take names off the jerseys before the start of the 2005 season, when they had many more familiar faces, including Wood, Prior, Zambrano, Greg Maddux, Nomar Garciaparra and Corey Patterson.

It was a concession to the team’s history, though many fans didn’t care for the move, as the Cubs quickly discovered.

“This whole franchise speaks to tradition, history and nostalgia,” McDonough said. “You look back and say that part of that [tradition] was just the numbers on the backs on uniforms without the names. So we experimented with it for a couple of years, and then collectively we thought it was time to bring back [the names].”

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Hilf? is that you? Did you formerly work at Dickinson College? Are you in PGH full time?

[quote comment=”6297″]As leaked a few weeks ago…

“In essence, fans could not identify many of the new players without looking at a scorecard, and the old-fashioned scoreboard isn’t conducive to associating players with their numbers.

“I think baseball in general has a pretty high turnover from year to year,” McDonough said. “And I think with your younger fans, those impressions are made at such an early age, and I think it just makes it a little bit easier [to identify players].

“I think this year, by the time the season ends, we’ll have close to 40 players who have been on the roster. We’re kind of seeing that trend continue.”

The Cubs decided to take names off the jerseys before the start of the 2005 season, when they had many more familiar faces, including Wood, Prior, Zambrano, Greg Maddux, Nomar Garciaparra and Corey Patterson.

It was a concession to the team’s history, though many fans didn’t care for the move, as the Cubs quickly discovered.

“This whole franchise speaks to tradition, history and nostalgia,” McDonough said. “You look back and say that part of that [tradition] was just the numbers on the backs on uniforms without the names. So we experimented with it for a couple of years, and then collectively we thought it was time to bring back [the names].”

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Enuff, already ! You were right, stop blowing your horn already… jeez, we don’t care.

[quote comment=”6294″]
2. Why the different spellings for Tretiak? Why would his Russian jersey have his name spelt differently than once used for Olympic play? Is the Latin alphabet any more legitimate? Is it marketing or advertising? If so, wouldn’t we all want the Tretiak jersey with the authentic Cyrillic spelling?[/quote]

I believe it has to do with the large number of media members that go to the Olympics. If the name is written in Russian, there aren’t too many play-by-play guys who can translate on the fly. Some of these countries (Kazakhstan, Ukraine)have players that no one has ever heard oif outside of their club teams. So writing it in “Latin” is much easier for the viewers, play-by-play guys, to know who that guy is and how to pronounce his name.

As an aside, I have a Latvia jersey with Ozolinsh on the back. However, the Latvian spelling of Ozolinsh in “Latin” becomes “Ozolins”. Great jersey in terms of bold colors simplicity. However, unlike the link below, mine is the dark jersey.

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