Good morning! I’m happy to report that I have a surprise for you today. Remember how I would periodically do the Uni Watch Power Rankings over on ESPN? That project …
Category: MLB
Some Odd Uni Postcards from the Baseball Hall of Fame
For all photos, click to enlarge I was poking around on eBay a few days ago and saw listings for something I’d never seen before: a series of four 1969 …
Chris Pirrone’s NFL/MLB Crossover Concepts (Vol. II)
By Phil Hecken, with Chris Pirrone Follow @PhilHecken Hey guys! Well, we made it to (checks phone) … Sunday. Yeah, the days do kinda run into one another due to …
Matthew Drake Redesigns MLB – AL West & NL East Edition
By Phil Hecken, with Matthew Drake Follow @PhilHecken Greetings from New York, where we continue our fight against the COVID pandemic (but where it also looks like we may be …
Chris Pirrone’s NFL/MLB Crossover Concepts (Vol. I)
By Phil Hecken, with Chris Pirrone Follow @PhilHecken Hey everyone — Happy Easter! If you’re celebrating with family, please be safe. If you’re celebrating via Zoom or Google Hangouts or …
Matthew Drake Redesigns MLB – AL Central & NL West Edition
By Phil Hecken, with Matthew Drake Follow @PhilHecken I hope everyone is hanging in there as we continue to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Last weekend, I introduced you to the …
Matthew Drake Redesigns MLB – AL East & NL Central Edition
By Phil Hecken, with Matthew Drake Follow @PhilHecken I hope everyone is hanging in there as we continue to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Over the past couple weeks, a few …
Uni Watch Classics: How 9/11 Gave MLB ‘God Bless America’
Good morning! Things continue to be more or less fine here at Uni Watch HQ. I hope the same is true for you and those close to you. Yesterday I …
Creating MLB ‘City’ Uniforms — NL Edition
By Phil Hecken, with Tom Juettner Follow @PhilHecken I’m back again today with the National League edition of the “MLB City Edition Series,” a collaboration of Tom Juettner and friends. …
Creating MLB ‘City’ Uniforms — AL Edition
By Phil Hecken, with Tom Juettner Follow @PhilHecken With all sports on hiatus due to COVID-19, and after seeing my recent articles about Dave Pinto “creating” Jim Vilk’s uniform designs, …
Uni Watch Classics: Squatchee Etymology
[Editor’s Note: Today I’m running a post that originally ran on Nov. 18, 2015 — not because I’ve run out of new content (I haven’t!) but because this is a …
Tales from the Dream Shop: Restoring a 1979 Padres Jersey
For all photos, click to enlarge [Editor’s Note: Today we have another guest entry from baseball jersey restorer extraordinaire Bill Henderson and his business, the Dream Shop. Enjoy. — PL] …
Spring Training Resumes … In Days of Yore
By Phil Hecken, with Ronnie Bolton Follow @PhilHecken Well, the coronavirus pandemic has arrived here in the United States, and for sports (and uniform) fans, that means we’re going to …
Hyphenation Nation: Rangers Shorten Shortstop’s Name
Click to enlarge How do you fit shortstop prospect Tyler Depreta-Johnson’s unwieldy surname on the back of his spring training jersey? If you’re the Texas Rangers, you don’t even try …
Dave Pinto Gets In Jim Vilk’s Head (NL Edition)
By Phil Hecken Follow @PhilHecken I’m “back” again today with David Pinto and Jimmer Vilk (if you missed what the hullabaloo below is about, click here. In case you don’t …