[Editor’s Note: Uni Watch Baltimore bureau chief Joe Hilseberg recently toured two excellent sports facilities that feature loads of uni-related exhibits. He took loads of pics and was happy to …
Category: Equipment/Accessories
Uni Watch Profiles: Conor Clougherty
Conor Clougherty works for Honig’s, a company that specializes in uniforms for umps, refs, and other sports officials. He’s also a big Uni Watch fan, so we recently spent some …
Because It’s Never Too Early to Learn How to Do Things Right
Several people have contributed good info about the College World Series, but I’m gonna save that until tomorrow or Thursday. Today we’re going to look back a bit further than …
Paternity Case
As you can see, the ticket stub shown at right is from 34 years ago, almost to the day. That date happened to be Father’s Day, 1973 — a day …
Couldn’t They Have Given the Players Some Sleeves?
I don’t tend to think much about football in June, but that changed the other day when I got a great note from reader J.R. Gain, who checked in with …
Clothing Swap
I had a houseguest over the weekend and barely touched my computer, so I’m a day late in covering the details of the weekend’s big uni-related story. With apologies to …
Frisco Fiasco
I don’t mean to pick on Giants equipment manager Mike Murphy — he’s been with the team for nearly 50 years, and he probably has his hands full finding caps …
Sleeveless in Chicago
Before we get started with today’s entry: I ended up making an important addition to yesterday’s ESPN column at about noon eastern. If you read it prior to then and …
Initialize This
Last Tuesday I had a small Ticker item about how the old Cincinnati Stingers of the WHA used to put first intials. in addition to last names, on the back …
Treasures from the Vault
We all know that weird things can happen during All-Star Games. The problem is, not many of them have been properly documented for posterity. But a reader who prefers to …
Uni Watch Midwestern Road Trip Report
I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: Uni Watch readers are the best. How great is it that I can show up in a city and get to meet …
There’s Gotta Be a Better Way to Salute Mom
Look, I’m all for moms (I have a cool one), I’m all for curing cancer (I’ll spare you the details, but let’s just say it’s done quite a number on …
Left Is Right and Right Is Wrong — Except When It’s the Other Way Around
I have a book review up on the left side of today’s Page 2 index page — look here. Meanwhile: As most of you probably know, the Reds used an …
Of Pence and Pants
Astros phenom Hunter Pence made his big league debut on Saturday night and drew immediate attention from readers John Ryan and Kevin Gee, both of whom noted that Pence wears …
And You Thought the Cool-Flo Looked Weird
The e-mails started coming in on Tuesday evening — not a ton of them, but a steady trickle, all from readers who said something like this: “I’m watching the Georgia …