(Photo courtesy of Jerry Reuss) Today we continue with our Jerry Reuss interview (if you missed the first part, which ran two days ago, look here). Without further ado: Uni …
Category: History
Uni Watch Profiles: Jerry Reuss, Part 1
(Photo courtesy of Jerry Reuss) A few months ago I began getting e-mails from a guy named Jerry Reuss. To my surprise, he turned out to be, you know, that …
Uni Watch Book Club: Rosenblatt Stadium — Omaha’s Diamond on the Hill
A few months ago, Phil wrote an entry about Rosenblatt Stadium, the Omaha ballpark that was hosting its final College World Series. Now the Omaha World-Herald has published a book …
A Perfect Way to Ring In the NFL Season
Pretty uni-notable photo, right? The see-thru jersey, the pants rolled up to expose those knee pads, the striped wristbands, the old Dungard facemask — good stuff. That photo is from …
Wildcats of a Different Stripe
We all know I love stripes. So you can imagine my reaction when I saw this. Those are the Duryea (Pennsylvania) High School Wildcats in the 1950s. Their uniforms were …
The Steve K. Files, Vol. 5
Been a long time since we checked in with screen-shot maven Steve K., who spends his time scrutinizing old NFL video (you can see the previous entries featuring his work …
Nights in White Satin
By Phil Hecken Anyone who reads Uni Watch has undoubtedly had the occasion to check out “Dressed To The Nines,” which is basically the Hall of Fame’s graphic representations of …
Thursday’s Unfinished Business
By Phil Hecken This is what you get when I don’t have a main article prepared — unfinished business. But I do have a lot of little things, and of …
There Used To Be A Ballpark Here, Part I
By Phil Hecken, with Ben Traxel As a part of the semi-recurring “old ballparks” featurette (other editions are here and here), we’ve looked back upon stadia which are no longer …
Best of Uni Watch: Revisiting The Double Curse
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 …
Throwbacks: Just Who Should Wear Them?
By Phil Hecken, with Rick Pearson & Scott Rogers There has been some recent discussion in the comments about throwbacks, and more specifically, teams who throwback to the uniform of …
Bumblebee Mania
By Phil Hecken With all the recent activity surrounding the Pittsburgh Pirates and their “Bumblebee” period (1977 through 1984), from the recent mention of Jerry Reuss’ blog, to Paul’s upcoming …
55 Since ’55 – The Colts Throw Back
By Phil Hecken Yesterday, the Baltimore Indianapolis Colts announced they will be wearing a throwback for 2010. This in and of itself is not notable — lots of teams throwback. …
Auction Action
As you’ve probably noticed via the ad just to the left of this text, our friends at Grey Flannel Auctions are running their annual Basketball Hall of Fame induction auction. …
The Robert Harvell Files, Vol. 6
Robert Harvell’s photo archive continues to be a bottomless source of gridiron goodness. Here’s the latest batch from his collection: • A wordmark on the sleeve is never a good …