Category: Gloves

[Editor’s Note: Paul is on vacation. Today we have an excellent feature by intern Mike Chamernik — enjoy.] By Mike Chamernik I played baseball in Little League and the lower …

The top photo shows the cleats that Red Sox outfielder Shane Victorino wore for last night’s World Series game. The screen shot below that shows how those cleats looked during …

[Editor’s Note: Reader Jim Lonetti and his son Dom — that’s them at right — run a baseball glove-repair operation. Jim has guest-written today’s lead entry, about how to re-lace …

Back in late May, I Ticker-mentioned that reader Jameson Adams had paid a leatherworking company to turn an old baseball glove into a wallet. The company that did that work …

The other day I got a note from the pseudonymous Hungry Hungry Hipster (probably not pictured at right, but hey, you never know), with the following subject line: “Lots of …

In case you missed it yesterday, Phil reported how Nike had unveiled a new set of NFL gloves for the Pro Bowl on Saturday. What Phil didn’t mention (in part …

Click to enlarge Last night’s BCS title game offered more uni-notable details — several of them visible in the photo shown above — than all four of the weekend’s NFL …

. Reader Brady Phelps was watching yesterday’s Chargers/Bills game and noticed something unusual about San Diego safety Eric Weddle (shown above). Do you see it too? As you probably noticed, …

After Joe Frazier’s recent death, I mentioned Frazier’s flashy trunks in the first Ali fight and his orange gloves with green thumbs in his first bout with George Foreman. That …

Click to enlarge My Scottish friend Lindsay Hutton (the man behind the awesome Next Big Thing, don’tcha know) is in town, and yesterday morning he wanted me to come out …

By Phil Hecken Paul’s still recovering from his weekend in the boonies, so he’s left me in charge of the ship. It’s the first MMUW of 2011, so let’s get …

One thing I love about Uni Watch is that I learn about stuff I never knew about before. Case in point: I got an interesting note the other day from …

What’s so special about the gloves shown above? They’re made of synthetic materials — microfiber, specifically. No leather whatsoever. They’re made by a Cooperstown company called Carpenter. Some minor leaguers …

By Phil Hecken Today we have another “Best of Uni Watch” installment. But unlike the last one, which reprised an entry from the blog, today we’ll be revisiting one of …

What see there is a new batting glove that supposedly offers much more protection against being hit by a pitched ball. It’s from a new California company called XProTex (further …