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 …
Category: Equipment/Accessories
How Well Do You Know Your Balls?
By Phil Hecken A little more than 50 years ago, Sports Illustrated ran a feature challenging its readers to identify 22 different balls used in the sports of the time. …
Billy Ripken, Meet Brian McCann
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 …
Monday Morning Uni Watch
I could be wrong about this, but I’m fairly certain I’ve never been the victim of a wedgie. I suppose there could possibly have been a summer camp incident so …
Jesus Puck: Uni Watch Web Site Review
Used to be there were only two kinds of baseballs used in the big leagues: the American League ball and the National League ball, each with its respective league prexy’s …
Monday Morning Uni Watch
We have a XXXXXL-sized amount of material to cover today, boys and girls, beginning with a follow-up to an item from last Wednesday, when I posted this shot of Dustin …
What Goes Up … Should Never Have Gone Up in the First Place
In 37-ish years of watching baseball, I’ve never seen a big leaguer do what Adrian Beltre did during last night’s Mariners/Mets game. When Brian Schneider hit a soft liner over …
Manny to Papi: Get Well Soon (Especially Since I Won’t See as Many Fastballs Without You in the Lineup)
Back in the late ’90s, it was common for MLB players to salute their injured teammates with handwritten uni-number cap inscriptions (and occasionally non-teammates, too — lots of Venezuelan players …
Shell-Shocked
An early Uni Watch moment for me came in 1975 or so, when I was watching an NBC Saturday Game of the Week broadcast. Red Sox backup catcher Bob Montgomery …
Stink-Eye for the Pink Guys
Yesterday was Mother’s Day, so MLB diamonds were awash in pink jersey ribbons, pink armbands (note how the Cool Base gussets ruin the pinstripes, by the way), pink-accessorized umpires, pink …
Can You Hear Me Now?
A few weeks ago I ran a Ticker item linking to this photo of Jim Kyte blow-drying his hearing aid. That led Teebz to post a comment linking to the …
Monday Morning Uni Watch
For most of my life, I feel like color schemes have pretty much made sense. There are color combos I really like, like green/gold/maroon, and ones that I don’t like, …
Blast from the Rosy Past
New ESPN column now up. This is the one about uni-related memorials — big thanks to all who contributed info. Meanwhile: Got a great note the other day from reader …
Shady Character
Back in March I wrote an ESPN column about athletes wearing sunglasses. At the time I wasn’t aware of any football players who’d worn shades on the field, but readers …
Monday Morning Uni Watch
My friends, yesterday marked the end of an era. For the first time this season, every member of the San Diego Chargers was wearing an American flag helmet decal. Or …