For all images, click to enlarge The Royals and Tigers played a Negro Leagues throwback game yesterday in Kansas City — the second such game since Nike took over MLB’s …
Author: Paul Lukas
It’s Time for the 2021 Uni Watch NBA Power Rankings
Click to enlarge The bar graph above shows how often each NBA team wore each of its uniforms during the 2020-21 regular season (all data from LockerVision). I used that …
EXCLUSIVE: MiLB Uni Gives Sneak Peak at New Nike Template
For all photos, click to enlarge Back in spring training, at least one MLB team appeared to be testing out a new Nike tailoring template — presumably the one that …
Talking Scorecard Covers with Cardinals Artist Mike Right
For all images, click to enlarge The St. Louis Cardinals have had MLB’s best scorecard cover artwork since 2003, when an illustrator named Mike Right took over the gig. His …
Sweet: Marlins’ New Uni Inspired by Havana Sugar Kings
Click to enlarge We’ve known for well over a month now that the Marlins’ new “City Connect” alternate uni would be making its own-field debut this Friday, May 21, but …
Talking MLB Player Caps with Aced Out Prexy Steve Adler
I don’t usually write about retail merch, but I recently learned about a company called Aced Out that has an intriguing niche: They have a license from the MLB Players …
Presenting the 2021 Uni Watch NHL Power Rankings
With the NHL playoffs set to start this weekend, my latest piece for InsideHook is a set of NHL uniform rankings. You can check it out here. I’ll be doing …
Your 2021 NWSL Uniform Season Preview
[Editor’s Note: For the second consecutive day, we have a soccer-centric entry written by another member of the Uni Watch team (because I’m basically unqualified to write about anything other …
C’mon, Blue: Ump Uniform Oddities Continue to Pile Up
For all images, click to enlarge Good morning and welcome back to Ump Watch (now revised from the longer and clunkier Ump Patch Watch), where we continue to obsessively document …
The Hidden Uni Connection Between Willie Mays and Tom Seaver
Willie Mays turned 90 yesterday, so there have been lots of Mays tributes floating around this week. One of them, improbably, taught me about a fascinating uni-related connection between Mays …
Rangers Rookie Leads the League in Diacritical Marks
For all photos, click to enlarge Rangers infielder Andy Ibáñez made his big league debut on Tuesday night. He’s a bit of an MLB uni-corn, because his NOB has two …
Chalk Talk: The Unique Batter’s Boxes of Dodger Stadium
Click to enlarge The screen shot above was taken at the very beginning of a recent MLB game in Colorado. As you can see, the foul lines and the lines …
C’mon, Blue: Umps Perplex Again with New Patch Mystery
For all images, click to enlarge Good morning and welcome back to Ump Patch Watch, the website where we cover the exciting and wide-ranging world of Major League Baseball umpires’ …
EXCLUSIVE: MLB Umps Make Unprecedented Uni Adjustment
For all image, click to enlarge Sometimes I’ll spot something while watching a game — something small, something seemingly inconsequential — that sends me down a deep, deep rabbit hole …