Category: Japanese Baseball

[Editor’s Note: Today we have a guest entry from long-time reader and contributor Jeremy Brahm, who will tell us the story of two designers (and sisters!) you’ve probably never heard …

Good morning! Greetings from Uni Watch HQ, where all three inhabitants continue to be safe and healthy, and where we had a very nice Laborious Day weekend. Hope you did …

Click to enlarge [Editor’s Note: Good morning! Today we have a guest entry from Miles Crowther, who’s going to tell us about a new uni-centric book he recently acquired. Enjoy. …

The photo shown above is from a recent preseason Japanese baseball game at the Tokyo Dome between the Yomiuri Giants and the Tokyo Yakult Swallows. The men wearing masks are …

Click to enlarge [Editor’s Note: Today we have an excellent guest entry from longtime reader/contributor Gordon Blau — that’s him above, with his wife, Chrysse — who’s going to tell …

By Phil Hecken Follow @PhilHecken Readers will recall a short while ago I featured artist Andy Brown, who shared his paintings and drawings from PyeongChang, Korea, during the past Winter …

By Phil Hecken, with Paddy Watson Follow @PhilHecken You folks may recall I had done a post a few months ago with Henry Yu on the Japanese baseball experience, and …

Click to enlarge Over the course of the years, I’ve followed a twitter account that goes by Sons of Johnnie LeMaster (they have a blog, although it doesn’t appear as …

For all of today’s photos, click to enlarge In Saturday’s Ticker, which was compiled by Phil, reader Jimmy Lonetti noticed that Yankees pitcher Masahiro Tanaka appeared to be wearing a …

Masahiro Tanaka, the Yanks’ new Japanese import, made his MLB debut on Friday. And as you can see in the two shots above, he was pulling the old Barry Bonds …

Life is always full of tragedy. But there are some tragedies that transcend the ordinary and become part of our larger collective consciousness. Sports uniforms, oddly enough, are a good …

Reader Michael Kotler has noticed something really interesting going on in Japanese baseball. I’ll let him explain: As we all know, MLB players can’t wear the number 42 (besides Mariano). …

By Phil Hecken, with Jeremy Brahm Now for the second part of our series on current NPB team uniforms. Today we will look at the current uniforms for each of …

By Phil Hecken, with Jeremy Brahm “Architecture beautiful. Society on cutting edge of progress.” — Mr. Baseball Today we take a look at Japanese baseball uniforms. I’ve always had a …

Whatever you think of the advertising patches that were worn in the A’s/Bosox series in Japan, one question remains: Why is uniform advertising used exclusively in these season-opening series in …