Click to enlarge Back in April, nine days after the Patriots unveiled their new uniform set, I broke the exclusive news that they had considered adding silver/grey pants as an …
Category: Collectibles/Memorabilia
MLB Snub Leads to Awesome Uni Watch Trading Card
Our story so far: Last December I told you how I was going to be featured on my very own Topps trading card. Exciting! In February I provided an update …
Auction Action
As you may have noticed in the left-hand sidebar, our friends at Grey Flannel Auctions are running another catalog auction. Let’s look at some of the highlights: • We’ll begin with …
A Look Back at the ‘Todays 1971’ MLB Team Albums
For all photos, click to enlarge Good morning! Greetings from Uni Watch HQ, where all three inhabitants continue to be safe and healthy. Hope the same is true for you. …
A Special Piece of the Saturday Night Special
Click to enlarge Today is the 41st anniversary of the infamous “Saturday Night Special” game — the 1979 game when the Philadelphia Phillies went mono-maroon, which turned out so disastrously …
Celebrating a Decade of ‘Collector’s Corner’
Click to enlarge In 2009 and early 2010, a Uni Watch reader named Brinke Guthrie began sending me lots of eBay listing links to include in the Ticker. At some …
My Very Short Career as a Topps Trading Card Star
As you may recall, back in December I told you the exciting news that I was going to be enshrined on my very own Topps trading card (the photos shown …
To Play or Not to Play: That Is the Question
Click to enlarge With the NFL draft kicking off last night, I want to share this 1935 Philadelphia Eagles letter that reader/proofreader/pal Jerry Wolper came across the other day. At …
Tales from the Dream Shop: Restoring a 1979 Padres Jersey
For all photos, click to enlarge [Editor’s Note: Today we have another guest entry from baseball jersey restorer extraordinaire Bill Henderson and his business, the Dream Shop. Enjoy. — PL] …
Tales from the Dream Shop: Restoring a Joe Torre Jersey
For all phtoos, click to enlarge [Editor’s Note: Back in January we had a guest entry from Bill Henderson about his restoration of an old Mickey Mantle jersey. That post …
Talking Baseball Cards with Ryan Cornell of Repacked Wax
Longtime reader/pal Jeff Ash recently hepped me to something interesting: a new company called Repacked Wax, which takes old baseball cards from the 1950s through the 1980s and packages them …
Uni Watch Field Trip: A Visit to the Topps Offices
Click to enlarge As I mentioned in December, I will soon be enshrined on an official Topps trading card, which will be part of the company’s 2020 Allen & Ginter …
Restoring an Original Mickey Mantle Jersey
For all photos, click to enlarge Many of you know longtime Uni Watch pal Bill Henderson as the guy behind the definitive guide to post-flannel MLB jerseys. Lately he’s been …
Auction Action
For all photos, click to enlarge As you may have noticed in the left-hand ad rail, our friends at Grey Flannel Auctions are running another catalog sale. It includes the …
Card-iac Kid: Uni Watch Founder to Get Topps Treatment
When I was a kid, I figured I was going to grow up to be a big league ballplayer. I mean, it was obvious, wasn’t it? I was a big …