By John Ekdahl The Nashville Predators unveiled their new road jerseys with a little help from two country music stars last night. Both new jerseys can be seen in person …
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Lakewood Will Change Their Name To The Jersey Shore Pork Rolls For One Game
By John Ekdahl For those unaware, there is a bit of a long-running argument between regions of New Jersey about the correct name for the sliced processed pork product found …
The Art of Keeping Score — Literally
Matt Maldre appears to be an interesting cat. He lives in Chicago, where he engages in a variety of art projects. He also loves keeping a scorecard during a ballgame. …
A Modest Proposal
I came up with an idea the other day. It’s such a simple, obvious idea that I’m sure other people have previously thought of it. But if they have, I’ve …
Organ Grinder
On the Fourth of July, as I was walking to the corner gas station to get some ice for the party I was hosting that afternoon, I saw that someone …
A Uni Watch Look at the 2017 MLB All-Star Game
All-Star Games are usually footwear free-for-alls, but last night’s Midsummer Classic was surprisingly light on shoe shenanigans — no neon, not many custom-painted jobs. One prominent exception, however, was Josh …
McAuliffe-ology
Many fans refer to the Red Sox number font as “the Red Sox font.” But as serious uni-watchers know, the font is actually called McAuliffe, and was created by the …
Bill Henderson Sweats the Details
As many of you probably know, the Phillies and Padres wore 1983 throwbacks on Friday. They got a lot of things wrong, which Phil covered in his excellent Saturday post. …
Phillies Tell Padres To #BringBackTheBrown!
Embed from Getty Images By Phil Hecken So, last evening the Philadelphia Phillies hosted the San Diego Padres in a “Turn Back The Clock” (to 1983) game, and while it …
An Overlooked Chapter in MLB Flag-Based History
MLB teams are currently in the midst of a four-day run of wearing stars/stripes uniforms. This is the latest development in a progression that began in the wake of the …
A Mystery Surrounding the Roberto Clemente ‘21’ Patch
When it comes to the Pirates’ 1973 memorials for Roberto Clemente, we all know the drill by now: The team wore black fabric swatches during spring training and then wore …
MLB to Let Inmates Run Asylum for ‘Players Weekend’
Padres manager Andy Green hinted last week that the team might soon be experimenting with nickNOBs. Turns out it’s an MLB thing, not a Padres thing, and it’s part of …
Tiger Talk
Embed from Getty Images Longtime Uni Watch reader/contributor Bruce Menard, who tweets tons of great vintage baseball imagery as @BSmile, came across something really interesting yesterday — the photo shown …
Rays Fauxback For The Home Fans
Embed from Getty Images By Phil Hecken The Tampa Bay Rays once again threw back to their “1979” uniforms yesterday, which they have done several times over the past few …
Tigers Talk Tools of the Trade
Embed from Getty Images [Editor’s Note: Today we have a guest entry from our own Mike Chamernik, and it’s really good. Enjoy. ”” PL] By Mike Chamernik I played baseball …