This can’t be a very good time to be in the auction business. With the economy in free-fall, who’s gonna drop serious coin on pricey memorabilia? Maybe that’s why the …
Category: History
The Ricko Files, Vol. 10
Who’s that dude with the stickum and the white ball? It is, of course, one Rick Pearson, aka Ricko, doing his best Fred Biletnikoff impression. Here’s the latest batch of …
Land of 10,000 Lakes … and Some Excellent Sweaters
It’s not often that I devote the lead entry to a retail operation, but reader Scott Johnson recently told me about a truly impressive outfit called Vintage Minnesota Hockey. The …
Man of Steal
By Phil Hecken “If my uniform doesn’t get dirty, I haven’t done anything in the baseball game.” — Rickey Henderson. If that quote by itself doesn’t sum up Rickey Henderson’s …
Lobster Not Included
A week or so ago we had some chatter about this player wearing a bib. I was unfamiliar with the phenomenon, but as Al Cummings explained in the comments, “The …
‘We drifted on down into no man’s land / We crossed the river called the Rio Grande’
New ESPN column today (link here). But since I took yesterday off, I’ll run a regular entry here as well. So: As excited as I am about the Life photo …
Uni Watch DIY Project: Beantown Special
[Editor’s Note: Nick Tavares — shown at right with his wife, Rachel — is the latest Uni Watch reader to undertake a DIY project. Here’s his story. — PL] By …
The Ricko Files, Vol. 9
Who’s that shaking hands with Billy Martin? It’s our own Ricko, wearing a stylish corduroy norfolk jacket and some serious sideburns. After he sent me this shot, I wrote back, …
Documenting a Maligned Decade
New ESPN column today — look here. Meanwhile … I recently got a note from reader Steve K., as follows: A friend of mine was moving and his wife made …
The Ricko Files, Vol. 8
Big news on the Ricko front is that ESPN has given me the green light to do a video segment on our resident uniform archivist. Won’t happen until early next …
City of Angels
The Los Angeles Public Library has a really good photo archive focusing on the history of L.A. and Southern California. Many of those photos are now available on the web …
The Golden Triangle
Even before the advent of internet uniform databases and Marc Okkonen books, most of us were pretty familiar with most of the MLB uniform designs since, say, 1960. But that’s …
The National Pastime, as Captured by the National Magazine
Time to continue our look through the Life photo archives, this time focusing exclusively on baseball. Just like last time, I’m linking to smaller versions of the pics so you …
And If They Ever Archive the Ads, My Productive Life Will Definitely Be Over
As many of you are already aware, there was a major development in online archiving the other day, as Google announced that they’ll be making Life magazine’s photo archive available …