I love trade magazines. American Funeral Director, Hay and Forage Grower, Elevator World, Demolition, American Jails — each of these very real magazines provides a peek into a previously unseen …
Category: Team Logos/Insignia
Just One Little Problem…
You know how it is. You’re thinking how something or someone is really gorgeous — magnificent, even — but then you notice that the something or someone has a teeny …
Put the Cat Out in the Hall and Rumple Up the Room
For a couple of years now, this 1968 SI cover has been a bit of a holy grail for me, because the players shown behind Pistol Pete are wearing the …
Leadership
A few disclaimers to start off the year: First, I watched exactly zero football over the holiday weekend, so you’ll have to forgive me if I missed a few things. …
What’dja Get? What’dja Get??
My family doesn’t celebrate Christmas (chosen people and all that”¦), but Uni Watch hedge fund analyst Jenny Strasburg and I had our own little Christmas celebration last Wednesday, before she …
No, Not Those Brownies
[Editor’s Note: Today’s entry marks the blog debut of Uni Watch intern Vince Grzegorek. Please join me in congratulating him on his fine work. — PL] If you’ve been watching …
Uni Watch Book Club
As I recently mentioned in another post, a lot of our knowledge, if you can call it that, of early uniforms is based more on templates and illustrations than on …
Finally, Something That Passes the ‘Is It Good or Is It Stupid?’ Test
We’ve had a lot of chatter in the Comments section lately about the use of Native American imagery on uniforms and logos. So it felt like a nice coincidence the …
Icecaps
Yesterday’s brief mention of soccer goalie Daniel Beltrame’s habit of wearing a baseball cap prompted some interesting responses. “You know this, I’m sure, but goalies wore caps regularly back in …
Monday Morning Uni Watch
Remember that old “This is the NFL” marketing slogan? Yesterday it was officially changed to “This is the NFL?” The league was barely recognizable yesterday, especially in Buffalo and Denver, …
Red Alert, Red Menace, Red Hot, Etc.
The other day I was telling Uni Watch botanist (and serious Dallas Cowboys fan) Jill Conley about this new Australian-themed pub that opened around the corner from my place, and …
Keep Your Pants On
Remember those black slacks that NFL officials were supposed to wear this season for cold-weather games? I thought for sure we’d see them for this past Monday’s snow bowl in …
‘T,’ as in Travesty
A crummy design is bad enough, but a missed opportunity is even worse. The Blue Jays managed to combine the two yesterday, when they introduced newly signed bopper Frank Thomas …
And She Bakes Cookies for the Players, Too
A few years ago I went to a ballgame at Shea Stadium and, by fairly amazing coincidence, ended up sitting next to the guy who does all of the Mets’ …
Or Maybe He Just Needs to Spend More Time at the Salad Bar and Less Time at the Dessert Bar
New ESPN column today — here’s the link. Meanwhile: Did the Astros sign Carlos Lee to a $100 million contract and then give him someone else’s ill-fitting jersey when introducing …