By Phil Hecken …It’s fun, Goddamit!” — Crash Davis, Bull Durham Yesterday the Cubs, continuing their throwback-to-each-decade-in-Wrigley’s-existence promo, turned back the clock to 1988, for their game against the Tampa …
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Tampa Bay Wearing “Fauxbacks” Today Against Cubs
By John Ekdahl Tampa Bay will wear their “fauxbacks” against the Cubs today. At least one sports commentator is not amused: ESPN’s Keith Olbermann, who is friends with Sternberg, nevertheless …
Bill Henderson wants your help for the Seventh Edition of the Game Worn MLB Jersey Guide
By Morris Levin Bill Henderson publishes the Game Worn MLB Jersey Guide. The most recent edition was the Sixth which he released in 2012. Bill catalogs and identifies every jersey …
What The Flock? A Uni Watch Sleuthing Project
By Phil Hecken Uni Watch (or more specifically, Paul) has covered the topic of flocking on several occasions — we probably best know it as the process by which small …
Uni Watch Book Club: ‘Stars and Strikes: Baseball and America in the Bicentennial Summer of ’76’
Reader Ed Kozak recently tipped me off to some good uni-centric content in Dan Epstein’s recently published book, Stars and Strikes: Baseball and America in the Bicentennial Summer of ’76, …
A Road Design Worn at Home
For all of today’s photos, you can click to enlarge The Cubs held their latest throwback game yesterday. The year on tap this time around was 1978 and, as you …
Let’s Look Back — WAY Back
We all love Dressed to the Nines. But if you’re seriously into old-timey baseball history, D2T9s has a serious limitation: It only goes back to 1901. Nobody has come up …
Ugly Fluorescent Color Wins Home-Field Advantage, Will Host Derek Jeter in World Series
First things first: If you’re looking for coverage of yesterday’s NBA leaks — plus a new leak I provided myself this morning — please look here. Thanks. Now then: Let’s …
Another Throwback Game at Wrigley
For all of today’s photos, you can click to enlarge The Cubs held their latest throwback game yesterday, this time turning back the clock to 1969 while hosting the Braves. …
A Closer Look at MLB All-Star Game Sleeve Patches
With the MLB All-Star game approaching, reader Steve Sale has provided some interesting tidbits about a pair of All-Star sleeve patches from years past. Let’s start with the 2002 ASG, …
Pittsburgh History Mystery Deepens
Click to enlarge Back on Sunday I wrote about the unusual sight of Willie Stargell wearing a batting helmet with the Pirates’ “smiling pirate” logo. Now we may have another …
MLB Trade Has Unexpected Uni Implications
As you’ve probably heard by now, pitcher Jeff Samardzija was traded from the Cubs to the A’s over the weekend and made his Oakland debut yesterday. That trade has created …
A Pittsburgh History Mystery
Click to enlarge Paul here, once again pinch-hitting for Phil. Reader Bruce Margulies recently came across a very interesting find: a photo of Willie Stargell wearing a batting helmet with …
Only 364 Days Until Next Year’s Stupid Caps!
Click to enlarge Paul here, pinch-hitting for Phil this weekend. Yesterday was Independence Day, so MLB honored the founding fathers by floating a new line of merch having teams wear …
It Wasn’t Broke but They Fixed It Anyway, Part 739
Click to enlarge When I was 10 or 11 years old, I made the all-star team of my local youth football league, and I remember being really excited about how …