[Click to Enlarge. Photo Credit: Ben VanHouten/Seattle Mariners] By Phil Hecken The Seattle Mariners unveiled their new alternate uniform (pictured above) yesterday, and boy is it gorgeous. It will be …
Category: Fauxbacks
“So relax! Let’s have some fun out here! This game’s fun, OK?…
By Phil Hecken …It’s fun, Goddamit!” — Crash Davis, Bull Durham Yesterday the Cubs, continuing their throwback-to-each-decade-in-Wrigley’s-existence promo, turned back the clock to 1988, for their game against the Tampa …
A Road Design Worn at Home
For all of today’s photos, you can click to enlarge The Cubs held their latest throwback game yesterday. The year on tap this time around was 1978 and, as you …
A Color Palette Special of the MLB Variety (or, Jim Vilk’s Dream Realized)
By Phil Hecken Yesterday afternoon, in the bowels of the concrete dome known as Tropicana Field, the Houston Astros and Tampa Bay Rays played a “throwback” game befitting of the …
A Throwback for a Fauxback
By Phil Hecken Last night, the Tampa Rays, nee in 1998, threwback to a uniform that never existed — until last year that is. As you’ll recall, in a wonderfully …
Ladies and Gents, Your 1979 Tampa Bay Rays
Have I mentioned lately how much I love Joe Maddon? Seriously, how many other big league skippers could wear that uniform and look like they were enjoying it? Or to …