Ah, my first batch of old wire photos since returning from blogcation. This bunch was contributed by Mike Hersh, Mako Mameli, and Bruce Menard. • If I’m understanding this photo’s …
Category: History
Auction Action, Basketball Edition
As you may have seen in the right sidebar, our friends at Grey Flannel Auctions are currently running their annual Basketball Hall of Fame induction auction, and I’ve taken the …
Fridays with Morris
[Today marks the final “Fridays with Morris,” and he has a few words before introducing his guest author. I’ll see you guys after the jump — PH] ~~~ Yesterday, Jim …
‘Huzzah’ for Vintage Base Ball
By Phil Hecken As we near the end of Paul’s “blogcation” (as he calls it), I’ve tried to bring you an eclectic mix of subjects and topics, and I thank …
When the White Shoe Was ‘Hot’
By Phil Hecken Back about three weeks ago, the day of the MLB All Star game, in fact, I had wanted to do a piece on specialty cleats players wear …
The Joy of Sox
By Phil Hecken Two days ago, my buddy Mike Styczen put together a really neat post on the MLB panel cap phenomenon. It was a nice retrospective and Mike did …
Meet The (Mercury) Mets
By Phil Hecken Twelve years ago tonight, I watched a baseball game with my dad (and as it would turn out, it would be the last Mets game we ever …
Fridays With Morris
[Editor’s Note: Morris Levin will be contributing an article each Friday while Paul takes his break. Enjoy! ”” Phil Hecken] “No, I just meant Miami….. what did you just say?” …
The Stars come out in daytime
By Phil Hecken I love Negro League throwback games — not only because Majestic apparently doesn’t make the uniforms, thereby ensuring they will likely be done well — and not …
Fridays With Morris
Editor’s Note: Morris Levin will be contributing an article each Friday while Paul takes his break. Enjoy! — Phil Hecken Capping Off The HOF By Morris Levin Next Friday, July …
Meet Mr. Baseball (Backs)
By Phil Hecken As those of you who read on the weekends are likely aware, back on June 26, I featured a website called Baseball Backs (here’s the link), which …
There’s No Service Like Wire Service, Vol. 32
Excellent mix of photos this time around, from a variety of sources — Mike Hersh, Mako Mameli, Paul Wiederecht, and Brendan Slattery. My thanks to all, and keep ’em coming. …
Smokin’ The Red Birds
By Phil Hecken As we head into the end of interplague and the wonderful days of the flag desecration beautiful S&S cap promotions, for one gorgeous evening, two teams got …
There’s No Service Like Wire Service, Vol. 31
Almost all of today’s photos all come from the Sporting News archives. With one exception, which I’ve noted, all were contributed by the increasingly indispensable Mike Hersh. Some really good …
Back to Baseball…
By Phil Hecken As most of you are aware, one of, if not the most important uniform histories was compiled by Marcus Okkonen, in his epic book, Baseball Uniforms of …