Unless you were paying very close attention to the fine print, you may have missed a small news item that came out of the baseball GMs’ winter meetings last December: …
Category: College Baseball
POTUS Sure Has a Sweet Jersey Collection
By Vince Grzegorek The Colts may have gone to Disney World after winning the Super Bowl, but a much more important trip waits for them around the corner: a trip …
And They Didn’t Even Exhume Don Ho for the Halftime Show This Year
Picking on the Pro Bowl is almost too easy, but here’s something that’s been bugging me: Why do they keep putting the term “All-Star” on the jerseys? In past years …
Red(head) Alert
So I’m watching football and looking at old magazines the other day with Uni Watch design director Scott M.X. Turner, and I tell him how reader Byron Wages recently sent …
Dead Presidents (Or, NYC to Ford: Drop Dead Nice Uni!)
New ESPN column today — here’s the link. Meanwhile: Recognize that kid with the golf clubs and the letter sweater? It’s 13-year-old Gerald Ford, in front of his childhood home …
Aggie Antiquities
Another university is doing a public service by putting its visual history on the web. Reader Dan Hardin has the details: Texas A&M has an ongoing project to digitize historic …
‘T,’ as in Travesty
A crummy design is bad enough, but a missed opportunity is even worse. The Blue Jays managed to combine the two yesterday, when they introduced newly signed bopper Frank Thomas …
Pittstory
I don’t usually blog on the weekend, but I’m making an exception today, because Newsday sports media columnist Neil Best has written a nice article about Uni Watch for his …
Chain Letter
I don’t know what the record is for most mentions of chain-stitching in a week, but I think we’re about to break it. As you may recall, the topic first …
Something Up His Sleeve
Uni-driven pandemonium at Shea Stadium yesterday, as Baltimore outfielder Ed Rogers’s jersey figured prominently in a key play. The follies began when David Wright hit a line drive to left, …
Great Wright Hope Has a Lot to Learn
Mets third baseman David Wright keeps a blog. Now, everyone knows that you don’t want to read a player’s writing — especially a player on your favorite team — because …
There’s Gotta Be a Better Way to Hide the Pit Stains
Uni Watch has written several times about the annoying stretch gussets in MLB’s new Cool Base jerseys. But that’s nothing compared to the black underarm gussets being showcased by Georgia …
And How Come Every Team Has a Fat Chick?
With the Women’s College World Series currently unfolding, Uni Watch is brimming with questions about college softball. For example: How come some of the teams wear pants and others wear …
You Say Alfonzo, Equipment Manager Says Alfonso
Put yourself in Eliezer Alfonzo’s place: You toil for more than 10 years in the minor leagues. When you finally get called up to the bigs, a thunderstorm makes it …
M*A*S*H Patient or Millard North Walk-On?
High school football season is several months away, but I can’t wait that long to tell you about Millard North, a Nebraska school whose players wrap athletic tape around their …