By Phil Hecken Forty-five years ago, in 1965 to be precise, the newly-named Houston Astros played host to the Philadelphia Phillies in the first ever regular season game in the …
Category: Caps
Oh Danny! Boy
By Phil Hecken As you all know, I get a LOT of “Uniform Tweaks” (or “concepts” or “revisions” or what have you) sent my way, and I try to post …
Curling For Dummies
By Phil Hecken, with Mike Styczen With the 2010 Olympics in full swing, it’s time to take a look at one of the least understood, and perhaps, most maligned sports, …
There’s No Service Like Wire Service, Vol. 2
Back in the summer of 2006, when this blog was less than two months old, I wrote an entry about the “White War” of 1967, in which the Washington Senators …
And Now…The Clarksville Finalists…You Pick The Winner
By Phil Hecken You will all recall that over the past two weekends, I had the pleasure of bringing you the participants in the “Clarksville ‘Design-A-Uniform’ Contest.” All the entries …
The Last Train to Clarksville (Pt. IV)
By Phil Hecken And, finally, today we visit the last round of entries for the “Design-A-Uniform” contest for the Clarksville Wildcats. As with the previous three rounds, we have another …
Design-A-Wildcat Uni, Pt. III
By Phil Hecken Today we begin with Round III of the Clarksville “Design-A-Uniform” Contest, with a plethora of superb entries. If you missed the first two rounds (or just want …
More Uni Design, More Football, and More!
By Phil Hecken Back with round two of the “Design-A-Uniform” contest entries for the Clarksville High School baseball team. If you missed the first batch of entries, you can see …
Devaluing the Design Process, Pt. I (aka “Design-A-Uni”)
By Phil Hecken OK, the long-awaited “Design-A-Uniform” contest entries have finally been all uploaded and flickr’ed (there were approximately 190 individual entries, from close to 40 entrants) that came in. …
Design-A-Uniform Contest
By Phil Hecken You guys will recall several weeks ago I ran a “Design-A-Cap” contest, for Coach Jerome Nemanich and his Sartell Sabres, and the results were outstanding. Reader Marc …
So who else needs fixin’?
By Phil Hecken Well, MLB has finally begun the League Championship Series, so as the second season begins to build towards the matchup FOX would kill for a possible Yankees-Dodgers …
Design A Cap Nominees
By Phil Hecken OK, it’s time to announce the nominees for the “Design A Cap” contest (the contest is now closed, but if you missed the original article, click here). …
In Which a Random Ticker Item Leads to a Full-Blown History Mystery
I recently Ticker-linked to this 1972 photo of an odd Padres cap, with a particularly wide-spanning yellow panel. That item has now prompted some interesting responses — let’s take a …
Giving New Meaning to the Term ‘Hat Head’
Baseball caps are such a pain. They cost too much, they mess up your hair, they blow off in the wind, and I’m constantly losing them because I leave them …
Yeah, But Can He Do It with One of Those Cheesehead Hats?
The great thing about Monday Night Football is, uh”¦ wait, it’ll come to me. Oh! The great thing about Monday Night Football is that it allows the entire country to …