Category: Customization/Modification

By Phil Hecken Today, I’d like to introduce what I hope will become a semi-recurring feature here at Uni Watch. I’d like to take a look at certain teams, teams …

By Phil Hecken What if … your favorite baseball team had different colors? Specifically, what if, instead of adopting the colors they currently wear, instead they chose the predominant colors …

By Phil Hecken, with Rick Pearson We haven’t heard from Ricko in a while. Well, we hear from him everyday on the boards with his anachronistic tirades and bad jokes …

Check out all the little scribblings on Ramon Ramirez’s cap last night. They’re a little smudged, but they’re definitely handwritten inscriptions arranged in a symmetrical pattern, not just random bits …

By Phil Hecken, with Dave Magruder You may recall that recently I ran a post with Mike Engle, “What Is Your Uni Secret?,” which asked readers to come up with …

Okay, so the Pittsburgh party report will have to wait, because something really interesting happened late on Monday night (too late for me to write about it in time for …

By Phil Hecken (with a glove save and a beut by Teebz) A couple of weeks ago, I was approached by a reader who asked me about goalie numbers. Being …

By Phil Hecken (with a big assist from Ricko) There are certain things certain athletes always do (or did) — or almost always do (or did) — in the way …

By Phil Hecken Today is the annual New York gathering of Uni Watch at 2:00 pm at Sheep Station in Paul’s borough of Brooklyn. MLB logo designer Jerry Dior is …

Maybe it’s because I’m a Niners fan, maybe it’s because the San Francisco Chronicle posted a really big photo gallery, or maybe it was just a coincidence, but I spotted …

We’re all familiar with the Billy Ripken “Fuck Face” card. There’s a whole web site devoted to it, it’s the basis of a great No Mas T-shirt, and it was …

Thanksgiving weekend is traditionally a big time for a sport that doesn’t get much coverage here at Uni Watch: high school football. And readers spotted some interesting details on a …

Two Fridays ago I ran a Ticker item about how Warren Spahn and Mort Cooper changed their uniform numbers with each additional victory late in the 1951 and 1942 seasons, …

Kickers don’t get on the field very often, plus the Ravens had a bye in Week 2, so it’s taken a little while for the issue of Matt Stover’s black …

I was out of town all weekend (hiking here and here, spending the night here, and eating this and this, among other consumables), so it may take me another day …