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’ …
Category: Memorials
Sock Hop
New ESPN column today. I’ll add the link when it goes live. [Update: Oops, no ESPN column today after all — it’s been bumped to next week.] Meanwhile, check out …
On the Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month
New ESPN column today — here’s the link. Meanwhile: Tomorrow is November 11th, which is an important day in many countries, because it’s the day World War I ended, as …
Border Crossing
The Diamondbacks unveiled their new uniforms last night. I’ll have a full review in my next ESPN column, which will run tomorrow. But for now I want to talk about …
History Lesson
A few weeks ago, reader Thomas Harding referred me to a photo on a web site I’d never encountered before. Frankly, I no longer recall which photo it was, because …
Of Bears and Hounds
Yesterday I interviewed Under Armour founder/prexy Kevin Plank for a business article I’m working on. He had a lot of interesting things to say, none of which I can divulge …
Tuck Rule, NBA Version
Those purple unis aren’t the only thing the Bucks will be leaving behind this season. That news comes courtesy of Trail Blazers play-by-play man Mike Barrett, who has a blog …
Division Series Roundup
There was some weird stuff going on in the various Division Series, and I’m not just talking about the Yankees going down so meekly. The biggest problem involved sleeves. For …
Underbill Update No. 389
As most of you know, I’ve been mildly obsessed this season with the growing phenomenon of MLB players who write things under their cap visors. (For those who missed it, …
Humankind Not Doomed After All
New ESPN column today — here’s the link. Meanwhile: Ladies and gentlemen, there’s a new hosiery hero in our midst. That would be Brian Tallet of the Blue Jays, who …
Black Monday
The Mets finally clinched the National League Eastern Division title last night. As a lifelong Mets fan, I was thrilled; but as a uni aesthete, I was appalled, because the …
Light(weight) Sabres
Okay, by now that we’ve all had a few days to digest the new Sabres uniforms. Aside from the obvious (color scheme = good, logo = bad), here are some …
Uni Watch Book Club: NFL by the Numbers
You may have noticed that last Thursday’s ESPN column included a brief mention of John Maxymuk’s Uniform Numbers of the NFL: All-Time Rosters, Facts and Figures (which came out about …
Monday Morning Uni Watch
We have a lot to cover this week, boys and girls, so let’s get started, beginning with some observations from Week 1 in the NFL: • Ronnie Brown and Chris …
Sugar, Sugar
New ESPN column today — here’s the link. Meanwhile: I love historical uni oddities that we all missed the first time around but are now rediscovering, and reader Chris Ford …