For all photos, click to enlarge While doing photo research for Tuesday’s blog entry about Dick Allen, I came across this shot of him on the cover of the August …
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The 2020 Uni Watch Holiday Gift Guide
The 2020 year-end holiday season, like everything else this year, is probably going to be unlike anything we’ve experienced before. Despite that — or maybe because of it — people …
Happy Thanksgiving
Hi there. Obviously, for most of us this will be a Thanksgiving unlike any other. I won’t be getting together with any of my family members or any of my …
Uni Watch Bookshelf: ‘The Fabric of the Game’
Click to enlarge Today is Nov. 3 — a date that many of us have been awaiting with increasing anticipation and anxiousness. For those of us of a particular persuasion, …
Uni Notes from Game Two of the 2020 World Series
Embed from Getty Images Last night’s World Series game had lots of uni-notable details, beginning with the fact that the Rays wore their road greys for the first time in …
How Uni Watch Readers First Got It™, Vol. 4
Welcome to the latest installment of Uni Watch readers telling us how they first got bitten by the uniform bug (or, as I like to say, how they first Got …
Uni Watch Show & Tell: A 1969 Ballpoint Pen Sample Kit
There was a live event last night in Cleveland that I was looking forward to. Unfortunately, it started going off the rails almost immediately and soon became a total train …
How Uni Watch Readers First Got It™, Vol. 3
Earlier this year, I published a blog post featuring Uni Watch readers sharing the stories of how they first got hooked on uniforms — in other words, how they first …
We Interrupt This Blog to Discuss Cookie Packaging
Good morning! Greetings from Uni Watch HQ, where all three inhabitants continue to be safe and healthy. Today I want to go off-uni and talk about something I’ve been mildly …
Happy Fifth of July
Our friend Matt came over yesterday for a socially distant cookout — chicken, steak, shrimp kebabs, and grilled kale — and then he stuck around to join us for Pandemic …
Happy Independence Day
Each year on this date I try to find an image that captures America in a nutshell (here are the ones from 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, …
A Team Grows in Brooklyn: Meet the Branches!
As you may have seen in yesterday’s entry, Branch Rickety — the informal name for the wayward branch that was hanging from the tree across the street from Uni Watch …
How the George Floyd Protests Are Reshaping the Uni-verse
Click to enlarge The racial justice protests that started in the United States after George Floyd’s murder and soon spread around the globe have already had a profound effect on …
How Uni Watch Readers First Got It™, Vol. 2
A little over two months ago, I published the first in what I promised would be a running series of blog posts featuring Uni Watch readers sharing their stories of …
Uni Watch Show & Tell: Vintage Salesman Sample Catalogs
For all photos, click to enlarge In case you hadn’t noticed, the whole world is stressed out at the moment. So today I thought I’d go off-uni and do a …