Click to enlarge Today is the 41st anniversary of the infamous “Saturday Night Special” game — the 1979 game when the Philadelphia Phillies went mono-maroon, which turned out so disastrously …
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Celebrating a Decade of ‘Collector’s Corner’
Click to enlarge In 2009 and early 2010, a Uni Watch reader named Brinke Guthrie began sending me lots of eBay listing links to include in the Ticker. At some …
EXCLUSIVE: Pats Considered Silver/Grey Pants in New Uni Set
Good morning! When I wrote last week about the Patriots’ new uniform set — the set with the navy pants that are apparently going to be worn for all games, …
Uni Watch Readers Tell How They First Got It™
Good morning from Uni Watch HQ, where everyone continues to be safe and sound. I hope that’s also the case at your home. I recently invited readers to share their …
Hospital Workers to Suit Up in Official MLB Gear
Click to enlarge Nice story yesterday out of Pennsylvania, where Fanatics announced that they’ve stopped manufacturing MLB jerseys and are instead converting their operations to make hospital masks and gowns …
It’s Time for the Annual MLB Season Preview
Click to enlarge Today was supposed to be Opening Day for Major League Baseball — the Holiest of Holies, as Comrade Robert Marshall likes to call it. Obviously, that won’t …
Why March 21st Was a Special Day at Uni Watch HQ
Good morning! Before we get started: In case you missed it over the weekend, the Rams are planning to unveil their new colors and logos (but not their uniforms) at …
Uni Watch Readers Redesign Logos for the Pandemic Age
Earlier this week I invited readers to redesign team, league, or event logos to make them more pandemic-appropriate. I’ve already shown you a few of the resulting concepts that readers …
A Swing(ing Friar) and a Miss: Pads Shelve Crummy Cap
When MLB’s awful new spring/BP caps came out last week, with their brutal logo-within-a-logo designs, I singled out a few of them that were particularly bad. That included the Padres’ …
Time for the Uni Watch Super Bowl Preview
The photo above, from a 2018 game, is a good approximation of how this Sunday’s Super Bowl will look (and, I hope, is also a good representation of the outcome). …
Sunday Morning Uni Watch
Good morning! Paul here, filling in for Phil, who’s dealing with a family situation. Greetings from Florida, where the Tugboat Captain and I are spending a few days visiting her …
New Year, New Project: Introducing the Uni Watch Pin Club
One of the big surprises of 2019, at least for me, was the popularity of Uni Watch pins. I did the winged stirrup lapel pin sort of as a lark, …
Merry Christmas to All
Merry Christmas from Uni Watch HQ, where “Mambo Santa Mambo” is on heavy rotation and the Irish cream is already flowing freely (as is the catnip, a goodly amount of …
Happy Thanksgiving
I’ve always liked Thanksgiving more than most other holidays. But it means a bit more to me this year, mainly because of you folks. Here’s why. As most of you …
One of the Greatest Uni-Centric Videos Ever
Way back on Sept. 3, one of my Twitter followers, Forest Lawrenceton, pointed me toward a YouTube video called “Milwaukee Bucks Uniforms — The Theory of Everything, Vol. 1.” The …