Category: History

By Phil Hecken Last night the San Diego Padres, continuing their “retro weekend” series against the Chicago Cubs, threw back to their road (brown) uniforms of 1984. Aside from 1984 …

Today is Jackie Robinson Day, the day when we honor the first African American to play in the major leagues. But as you can see above, Robinson was not the …

Click to enlarge Last week I mentioned the excellent new “30 for 30” documentary, Untucked, which is about Marquette’s untucked jerseys back in the late 1970s. As a companion piece …

The Kansas City Chiefs have had one of the most stable visual identity programs in all of pro sports over the past half-century. Their uniforms have barely changed over the …

You probably don’t realize this — I didn’t realize it myself until a few days ago — but today is a very special day in the annals of uni-watching. For …

[Editor’s Note: I have a new ESPN column today ”” a round-up of the latest MLB uni news. Meanwhile, this is a special day, because intern Mike Chamernik, who’s been …

[Editor’s Note: Today we have an excellent guest entry by David Firestone, who’s provided a close look at a unique element from MLB uniform history. ”” PL] By David G. …

Click To Enlarge By Phil Hecken Now that the Super Bowl is upon us, it’s time to take a look at the uniform history for the designated home team, the …

Click To Enlarge By Phil Hecken Now that the Super Bowl is upon us, it’s time to take a look at the uniform history for the designated road team, the …

By Phil Hecken And now, for Volume II of “Baseball Cathedrals,” which details the wonderful twitter account (@MLBCathedrals) maintained by Mark Anderson. If you missed the first part, please click …

Serious historical find today, kids, and it’s a follow-up to something we first discussed back in 2012. In May of that year we addressed the rumor that 49ers running back …

By Phil Hecken Several months ago, in the comments, a reader whom I can’t remember mentioned that @MLBCathedrals would be a great Twitter account to follow. I think, at the …

The first MLB season I followed pretty much from beginning to end was 1972, when I was eight years old. The Cubs had an odd road jersey that year — …

We’ve seen plenty of cases of MLB umpires wearing makeshift uniforms after their luggage was lost. But reader Jerry Wolper has come up with a particularly unusual case in which …

Major historical find today, kids. Here’s the backstory: I’ve written several times about Stan the Man wearing the Cardinals’ 1956 home whites while displaying a new set of road grays …