[Paul here. I’m on vacation this week, but here’s something for you to enjoy during my absence.] I’ve written several times about Willie Mays wearing a Cubs helmet and then …
Category: All-Star Unis
Ugly Fluorescent Color Wins Home-Field Advantage, Will Host Derek Jeter in World Series
First things first: If you’re looking for coverage of yesterday’s NBA leaks — plus a new leak I provided myself this morning — please look here. Thanks. Now then: Let’s …
A Closer Look at MLB All-Star Game Sleeve Patches
With the MLB All-Star game approaching, reader Steve Sale has provided some interesting tidbits about a pair of All-Star sleeve patches from years past. Let’s start with the 2002 ASG, …
MLB Trade Has Unexpected Uni Implications
As you’ve probably heard by now, pitcher Jeff Samardzija was traded from the Cubs to the A’s over the weekend and made his Oakland debut yesterday. That trade has created …
It Wasn’t Broke but They Fixed It Anyway, Part 739
Click to enlarge When I was 10 or 11 years old, I made the all-star team of my local youth football league, and I remember being really excited about how …
Big Mess in the Big Easy
Click to enlarge Greetings from an undisclosed location, where I’ve been spending the holiday weekend. Heading back to Uni Watch HQ this evening. Didn’t catch any of last night’s NBA …
Kickin’ It in the Big Easy
By Phil Hecken Well — it’s that time of year again. The time of year I turn the reins over to Uni Watch’s favorite Sneakerhead, Matt Powers, who is here …
Monday Morning Uni Watch
One of the sadder aspects of covering the uniform beat is that it’s my job to watch the Pro Bowl. And that aspect of the job was never sadder than …
Uni Watch Exclusive: Big NBA News
As you may have heard yesterday, the NBA All-Star Game jerseys were unveiled yesterday. I’ll get to that in a minute, but first I have two other NBA-related exclusives: 1. …
More NBA Christmas Talk, and Some Exclusive All-Star News
If you can’t see this slideshow, click here We already broke the story of the NBA’s Christmas Day uniforms last week, and now the NBA has finally acknowledged the jerseys’ …
Game Nobody Cares About Gets New Costumes Nobody Will Remember
Click photos to enlarge Everyone knows the Pro Bowl is a joke, so why not have it look like a joke? That’s apparently the thinking behind the new Pro Bowl …
MLB All-Star Game Recap
No helmet mix-ups or other uniform eccentricities in last night’s MLB All-Star Game (grrrrr), but there was still plenty of uni-watching fodder. Here’s a rundown: • All jerseys and caps …
This DUD is Definitely NOT a Dud
By Phil Hecken OK, I’m back after a one-week illness-induced hiatus — I’m not quite sure what afflicted me, but it sure felt like the flu, which is quite odd …
Kickin’ It at the NBA ASG — A Sneakerhead’s Delight
By Phil Hecken Taking a break from the past week’s rather in-depth discussions of Native Peoples’ iconography/logos/naming, Klan uniforms, and other more “esoteric” subject matter, today we break out the …
Monday Morning Uni Watch
In case you somehow weren’t sure whether anyone takes the Pro Bowl seriously, check out this bizarre scene from the first quarter of yesterday’s game: That’s Packers center Jeff Saturday …