By Phil Hecken So, this is what happens when you let the players and the fans design the unis, not some “professional” with a powerful computer and a *vision.* Ladies …
Category: History
Bored already?
By Phil Hecken There were two “throwback” (Turn Back The Clock) games played this week in MLB — last Saturday, the San Diego Padres and the Washington Nationals hooked up …
A Stack of Pack Memorabilia
The Packers received their Super Bowl rings yesterday. By coincidence, reader Ray Barrington was recently looking at the Wisconsin Historical Society’s web site and found a bunch of really wonderful …
Tim and Bill (and Rob’s) NFL Uniform Project – Part III
By Phil Hecken About a month ago, I told you about the beginnings of a very special project — one which may some day go down in the annals of …
Beating A Dead Bronco (of a different color?)
By Phil Hecken One of the more persistent “Uni Watch Mysteries” over the past three or so years has been the ongoing debate on the color of the helmet decal …
Are new unis good or bad? Depends on who you ask: ’87 Twins
By Phil Hecken, with Rick Pearson Every once in a while, talk in the comments leads to a main entry — in fact, it was just such a phenomenon that …
Watching nine innings / Tossing ten frames / These are my two very favorite games
I love baseball and I love bowling, so I was plenty stoked when reader Bruce Menard found a bunch of photos from a 1963 event called the NBC Major League …
Easy as A-B-C: History Mystery Solved!
Remember Friday’s post about Dodgers minor leaguers wearing letters instead of numbers during spring training? That mystery has now been solved, as reader David Highhill has come up with a …
Uni Watch History Mystery: Red Letter Day Revisited
A few weeks ago I ran a piece about how the Dodgers used to have certain players wear letters instead of uni numbers during spring training. The letters we had …
There’s No Service Like Wire Service, Vol. 30
Time for another batch of classic wire service photographs. The images in this batch were submitted by Mike Hersh, Bruce Menard, Jerry Wolper, Brendan Slattery, Mako Mameli, and Phil. Off …
Like Father, Like Son
Yesterday I ran the transcript of Robert Harvell’s interview with longtime Rams equipment manager Todd Hewitt. As many of you know, Todd was born into the job, because his father, …
Tim & Bill’s NFL Uniform Project – Part II – “Tim’s Story”
By Phil Hecken I’m back again with Tim Brulia, Uni Watch uniform historian, and his able partner, Bill Schaefer, with Part II of their incredible NFL Uniform Project. If you …
Tim & Bill’s NFL Uniform Project – Part I – “Bill’s Story”
By Phil Hecken No, the team you see listed above in today’s splash photo isn’t some kind of crazy “cross sport concept uniform” by one of the many tweakers who …
Hats Off To Brooklyn — Part II
By Phil Hecken Following last weekend’s outstanding post from Uni Watch stalwart Chance Michaels, I’m back with Chance for Part II. If you missed last weekend’s edition, do yourself a …
Red Letter Day
Absolutely EPIC Uni Watch party last night in St. Charles. Didn’t have time to upload photos or videos for today, but soon. Now then: Back when Buck Showalter managed the …