By John Ekdahl
The St. Louis Cardinals will be honoring their 1982 World Series Championship Team this weekend versus the Brewers.
The Cardinals are set to welcome more than 20 members of the franchise’s 1982 world championship club back to St. Louis this weekend for a 30th anniversary celebration. Events honoring that club are planned for all three days of the Cardinals’ series against Milwaukee.
Hall of Famer Bruce Sutter will sign autographs at the Busch Stadium Ford Plaza before the Cardinals’ game on Friday, and the first 25,000 fans to enter the gate that night will receive a bobblehead in his likeness.
The focal point of the reunion will take place on Saturday, when members of that 1982 team will be paraded around the field and then honored in a pregame ceremony. The Brewers and Cardinals will wear replica jerseys from the ’82 season that night.
After wearing their “home” white uniforms on Saturday, the Cardinals will don their “victory blue” road uniforms from 1982 in Sunday’s series finale. That game time has been moved to 7:05 p.m. CT to accommodate an ESPN national telecast.
Players and other members of the ’82 team who are expected to attend the weekend ceremonies include: Ozzie Smith, Whitey Herzog, Sutter, Red Schoendienst, Keith Hernandez, Ken Oberkfell, Dave LaPoint, Jim Kaat, John Stuper, Jeff Lahti, Steve Mura, John Martin, Doug Bair, Jeff Keener, Tito Landrum, David Green, Gene Roof, Dane Iorg, Mike Ramsey, Glenn Brummer, Joe McDonald and Gene Gieselmann.
Is this the 2013 Mets All-Star Game logo?
Light content today. Open thread.
Probably not much like when Roy Hobbs showed up…
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“Light content today. Open thread.”
Nothing wrong with that. Pace yourself, fellas.
The Cleveland Browns had a press conference yesterday to introduce their new owner to be. Naturally one of the first questions he was asked was about the uniforms. Not surprisingly he commit one way or another, but he did say that we live in a marketing world and that would be take into account if and when the discussion of uniform changes comes up. So it isn’t off the table.
The potential Mets ASG logo looks a lot like the 2006 ASG logo in Pittsburgh
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Nice catch…it seems the odd choice of inconsistent font on the Mets version is based on the same font they used for Pittsburgh…also, the Pittsburgh cityscape on top was kind of appropriated from the iconic Mets logo, making the two very similar.
If that’s the logo, my five-year old nephew can create one that’s better.
Although not a big favorite look, the link last night were highly accurate and many player wore stirrups, although worn too high for that era. The only complaint I have is that the NOBs looked a bit goofy with the white outline filling in certain letters. While that also occurred on the 1989 unis, it was not as glaring because they used more condensed font back in the day. Compare that to the game photos. Since the Mets had blue squatchees back then (which should be returned), they simply took off the raised orange stick on ones from their helmets…a clever move.
The link to the condensed font did not appear in my comment for some reason…here is a side by side, with the original on the left.
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Wasn’t so much that the stirrups were too high, but that the pants were too short. Certainly for 1989.
1989 may as well be 1932 to a player born in 1987.
I really like the (potential) Mets ASG logo shirt. I won’t buy one though, because I hate the Majestic logo being right on the front under the collar. I wouldn’t mind it if were on the back of the collar, or on a sleeve, but that logo right there just ruins an otherwise great shirt.
You are a tough one…I have not bought Met shirts for reasons such as they had some black…because they used Wilpon script…because the little NY on the logo was missing…but never because of a manufacturers logo.
My brother went to the Padres game last night and took some pictures of uniforms for me. Here is the link: link
Great shots. The Padres need to return brown to their color scheme.
And yellow, and go back to this hat
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New orange uniforms for UTEP. I think they look terrible.
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The Miners wore, along with the Jim Brown Syracuse Orangemen, the first mono orange unis I remember…
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That’s legendary QB Billy Stevens from 1965.
His favorite receiver was Chuck Hughes…
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Hughes later died on the field playing for the Lions against the Bears…
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The one-bar facemask just looks cooler and better to me than all the Rube Goldberg birdcages players sport today.
Here’s the actual (grainy) photo. Looks like they’re trying to tune in Tokyo.
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can anyone help me here?
where do you send ticket submissions in paul’s absence?
and
where do you send the letter that you wrote the nba?
Send them both to the normal address at link
Phil is picking them up.
Nice sweatback logo on the Lithuanian basketball uniforms:
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In today’s Benchies, is that some Nike logo creep on Bub’s Pub’s pants?
I hope you’re kidding…
Yeah, cuz of my lucrative shoe deal. :)
I know it’s not, I’m just hoping this guy realizes he’s talking about a cartoon character’s crotch…
Pretty sure his sarcasm tag was on.
Y’know, tweaking those who see a swoosh in Superman’s nostril in a 1939 comic book.
Or a Bronco’s nose.
Ha! Indeed. I didn’t think about it like that.
Exactly.
Historical Kits has the full set of unis for the Premier League’s imminent new season:
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The real shocker is Southampton going just about solid red. Two new manufacturers debuting: Warrior (Liverpool) and Under Armour (Spurs). Villa gets points for the stripey socks, but gives them right back for the Seattle-green alts. And then there’s Manyoo’s “tablecloth”….
The other shocker, of course, was Warrior’s removal of the 2 flames on the club crest on the front that commemorated the Hillsborough disaster victims.
They’re on the back of the neck, with a “96”.
I don’t think that helped matters much, though.
And Senegal’s rallies from two goals down!
“Senegal’s”?
Geez.
And then makes the worst pass decision I’ve ever seen. Ever.
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This was from last nights Rockies Game!
– Jake
Does the US men’s volleyball team have scudettos on their jersey? Or is that just part of the design? There are 3 stars above the US flag.
ATTENTION, ANYONE WITH SLEEP APNEA!!!
You really need a pair of these…
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Because THIS would look SO awesome.
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Ricko, you’re a genius! Sports/team-themed CPAP accessories.
Happy Birthday link!
I ask you, who doesn’t want his daughter to grow up to play football at Notre Dame in a helmet that looks like a golden golf ball.
Happy Birthday, Jenny.
The shoes totally make that picture.
Happy Birthday!
Is the METS script in the ASG logo missing the “Wilpon Tilt,” or whatever that meaningless adjustment is called?
Correct…that is the “classic script” that they use in the ball logo. Wilpon script never infested the ball logo, except in some uniform patches.
US Women’s fencing mask…
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Discussed earlier in the week. Tomorrow, for the men’s team foil, you’ll see that mask again, and the Union Flag on the British team’s mask (Leon Paul is a sponsor of both teams, and makes painted masks like this).
I recalled the Great Britain mask being shown, but nothing about the US one.
Strangely, the mask wasn’t nearly as “loud” as the South Korean opponent who let out a death rattle after every goddamn point scored.
Anybody from St. Louis? How will Keith Hernandez be treated this weekend? He was a key member of the 1982 team, but then became a leader for the despised Mets of the mid-80s. Keith always notes that being traded and deciding to stay with the Mets was the best thing that happened to him. What does he say in St. Louis?
That’s a good question. We are always told that we are the best fans in baseball, but I really just think that translates to us being the nicest. The fact that he is there will probably be enough for the fans. I predict a warm reception. But you never know.
I want to know why Tommy Herr isn’t on the list. Managerial slight?
Nice and knowledgable, I would say.
Probably pretty well. Jim Edmonds got a warm reception when he returned to town with the Cubs, and I imagine, if you give it a few years, Albert Pujols wouldn’t be welcomed by a shower of boos.
Probably a great one since he got a great ovation in 2007 when they recognized them at the home opener.
Wandered around the seemingly so-new-it’s-not-on-the-Internet National Spirits Museum in Manssas, VA, today, and saw this beauty, a 1969 Jim Beam baseball centennial decanter:
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Whoa, where in Manassas is the museum? You’re right, Google knows not of it.
Right where Main crosses the railroad tracks south of Center.
Brewers not wearing the gold front panel road caps with their ’82 powder blue roads.
The Brewers are wearing throwbacks to 1982, but they are wearing their road unis with their home caps.
Nitpick on the Cardinals throwbacks: They used the current NOB lettering. The lettering was changed when they tweaked the birds-on-bat logo and went to button downs back in the early 90’s. I remember the change because it made the Cards uni look identical (from the back) to the Reds at the time, which was annoying until the Reds went to their current old-timey font. The old Cardinals NOB looked more blockish; identical to the Orioles current lettering. (maybe a formed shared relic from the old St.L Browns days?)