Before he became synonymous with video games, former NFL coach John Madden authored several books. Reader Barry Brite recently informed me that one of those books — 1989’s One Size …
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Striped Beauty Lurking in an Unexpected Place
As most of you know by now (and as is pretty obvious from the photo shown above, taken a little over a year ago), I like stripes. Always have. And …
NBA Leak-o-Rama
Click to enlarge Major NBA development late last night, as a someone on Reddit posted what appears to be a sheet outlining all of the NBA uniform changes for next …
Some Thoughts on the Pacers and Their Hickory Uniforms
Click to enlarge Big news yesterday out of Indiana, where the Pacers announced that they’ll be wearing Hickory uniforms from the movie Hoosiers for select games next season and beyond …
Thrift Store Find of the Year
Click to enlarge Matt Texter is a musician and graphic artist who lives in Erie, Pennsylvania. He likes to collect oddball items and frequently visits thrift shops in search of …
Mr. Met Mystery Kinda-Sorta Solved, Mostly
As many of you know, for several years now I’ve been trying to find the identity of the artist who designed Mr. Met — not the live mascot but the …
Sox in Shorts Redux?
For the White Sox section of my recent ESPN column on the best throwback uni for each MLB team, I wrote, “Nope, no throwback of the infamous “Sox in shorts” …
So Where’s the ‘Back in BFBS’ Design?
If you can’t see the slideshow above, click here Man, what is it with these foreign geezer-rockers and their obsession with our sports imagery? First it was the Stones aping …
Cream Didn’t Rise to the Top
The New Era folks must have thought they had it all figured out. Grey all-star caps for the American League, whose players would be wearing grey uniforms, and white caps …
Meanwhile, at the Home Run Derby…
Click to enlarge As you know, cubs are ferocious, rabid beasts that snarl like the demon hellspawn they are. They stalk the landscape in zombie-like packs, striking fear into the …
A Look at Yesterday’s Cubs/Sox Throwback Game
The Cubs and White Sox held the first of their two late-1950s throwback games yesterday. As I explained last week (and as you can see above), all the Cubs wore …
Beastly Bruins
I can no longer bring myself to get worked up about lousy college football uniforms. The whole enterprise now has little to do with uniform design and is more akin …
Four-Finger Discount (and three-finger, too)
Last Saturday, on Independence Day, I wrote, “If you’re playing with pyrotechnics today, try not to blow off more than one or two body parts (save the rest for next …
How the Gunslingers Got Their Uniform Design
Click to enlarge Reader Gene Sanny, who you may recall from his sensational WFL-themed electric football project, recently stumbled across Billy Schott on Facebook. Schott was the designer of the …
Can’t Tell the Players, Even With a Scorecard
Very interesting storyline yesterday out of the Chicago, where the Cubs and White Sox announced that they’ll be honoring Ernie Banks and Minnie Minoso by wearing late-1950s throwbacks for their …