Click to enlarge A big surprise emerged yesterday out of DC, where the Nationals announced that they will honor their franchise’s previous incarnation by wearing 1969 Expos road throwbacks for …
Author: Paul Lukas
NBA, Nike Planning 75th-Anniversary Uniforms for 2021-22
Click to enlarge The 1996-97 season marked the NBA’s 50th anniversary. As you can see in the photo shown above, they marked the occasion by using a gold NBA logo …
Uni Watch Library: An MLB Recruiting Booklet from 1963
For all photos, click to enlarge When I’m editing Brinke Guthrie’s weekly “Collector’s Corner” column, every now and then I spot something that I decide to bid on myself instead …
Royals, Twins Wear Negro Leagues Throwbacks
For all photos, click to enlarge The Royals held their annual Negro Leagues throwback promotion yesterday, dressing up as the Kansas City Monarchs while the visiting Twins dressed up as …
Rockets Unveil Middling New Uniform Set
Click to enlarge Happy summer solstice! Let’s hear it for the Houston Rockets, who last night unveiled a new set of full uniforms, not just jerseys — although they did …
The Odd Overlap of Uniforms and Road Runner Cartoons
One of the podcasts I regularly listen to, which is nominally about politics, has a segment at the end where the three podcast participants all recommend something (usually non-political) that …
The Okkonen Files, Vol. 1: The Birth of Dressed to the Nines
Last month I wrote an obituary/tribute for Marc Okkonen (that’s him at right, throwing out the first pitch at the 2016 home opener of his hometown Muskegon Clippers; click to …
A Very Unusual Ticket Collection
For all photos, click to enlarge Meet Eric Schwartzman, a tax accountant who lives in Queens. Like a lot of people, he collects ticket stubs. But they’re not all from …
MLB Ties One On for Father’s Day
For all photos, click to enlarge Pirates catcher Elis Díaz got in the spirit of Pa’s Day yesterday by wearing a clip-on tie (with logo creep, groan) on his chest …
Canucks Unveil New Merch — er, Jerseys
The 2019-20 NHL campaign will be the Canucks’ 50th season. They unveiled a commemorative logo (shown at right) earlier this year, and yesterday they unveiled their new uniforms. Actually, check …
Cup Finale Leads to Bonanza of Cross-Sport Gestures
For all photos, click to enlarge With the deciding game of the Stanley Cup Final(s) taking place in Boston last night, it turned out to be a very good day …
A Baseball and Sumo Trip Through Japan
Click to enlarge [Editor’s Note: Today we have an excellent guest entry from longtime reader/contributor Gordon Blau — that’s him above, with his wife, Chrysse — who’s going to tell …
Pocket Perfesser: Stengel’s Surprising Pants Modification
It all started when one of my Twitter followers, Dwayne White, tagged me while retweeting the Casey Stengel photo shown above and asked, “Ever seen a watch pocket on a …
Behind the Scenes at a Padres Focus Group
One thing you may have missed over Memorial Day weekend — I initially missed it myself — is a report from Padres beat reporter Kevin Acee, who said the team …
A Hoosier State Tradition: The Indiana All Stars
Photo from The Indianapolis Star; click to enlarge Hooo-ah — now that’s a uniform, am I right? The vertically arched chest lettering, double numbers (which look particularly odd on the …