——— Pretty cool photo + caption, right? Dan Cichalski sent it to me the other day. Fascinating shot on several different levels. One thing at at time: • We can …
Category: History
There’s No Service Like Wire Service, Vol. 29
Nearly 30 entries in, and the wire service gold mine shows no signs of being spent. Most of these come from the Sporting News archives and were submitted by Mike …
Auction Action
As you may have noticed in the right sidebar, our friends at Grey Flannel Auctions are running another auction at the moment. Here are some of the more uni-notable items: …
The Hy Peskin Archives, Vol. 3
Okay, one last batch of beautiful Hy Peskin pics. In previous entries we’ve covered baseball and basketball and football; this time around we’ll cover a range of other sports. Without …
A Wulf in a Sheep’s Beach Blanket, or Something…
When I wrote my recent ESPN column about the genesis of the White Sox beach blanket uniform, I totally dropped the ball by overlooking a key living link to the …
Leave The Uni Critiques To Us, Please
By Phil Hecken With good reason, Paul pretty much ignores all those “Worst Uniform” lists we see on other websites, and to my knowledge, he’s never compiled such a list …
There’s No Service Like Wire Service, Vol. 28
I have a huge backlog of excellent wire photos, and I’d like to get through as many of them as possible this week. Today’s batch was submitted by reader Mako …
Rolls Reuss, Volume IV
By Phil Hecken Today we continue with the Jerry Reuss series, and in this part, we will take a look at one of Jerry’s nascent talents — uni tweaking. Jerry …
Playin’ Footsie with Hank: A Uni Watch Investigation
It was 37 years ago tonight that Hammerin’ Hank hit No. 715. I was 10 years old and the time and remember it clearly. NBC televised the game nationally, so …
There’s No Service Like Wire Service, Vol. 27
I have a big backlog of uni-notable wire photos, so let’s clear out of a bunch of them today. Almost all of these are from the Sporting News archives, and …
Clothed Like a Jaybird
[Editor’s Note: Last week I showed a photo of Blue Jays scout Al LaMacchia posing with a Blue Jays road jersey that had different lettering than what the team actually …
Auction Action, Sporting News Edition
Mears Auctions recently sold a bunch of old Sporting News photos, and the increasingly indispensable Mike Hersh singled out a bunch of uni-notable shots, all of them baseball-related. Let’s take …
Rolls Reuss, Volume III
By Phil Hecken Today we continue with outtakes from my recent interview with the great Jerry Reuss. If you missed Volume I or II, you can look here and here. …
The Original Met
Our story so far: Last Thursday I Ticker-linked to this article, which stated that Rays coach Don Zimmer “was the first player to try on a Mets uniform.” On Friday …
Rolls Reuss, Volume II
By Phil Hecken My greatest thrill in baseball is winning the World Series in ’81. Without at doubt, because that’s what everybody wants. And you know why the no hitter …