By Phil Hecken Several months ago, in the comments, a reader whom I can’t remember mentioned that @MLBCathedrals would be a great Twitter account to follow. I think, at the …
Category: MLB
Revealed: The Story Behind the Cubs’ 1972 Road Uni
The first MLB season I followed pretty much from beginning to end was 1972, when I was eight years old. The Cubs had an odd road jersey that year — …
Major Blast From the Soft Drink Past
Click to enlarge Oh baby, check out this amazing 1930s ad for Celo soda featuring Dodgers pitcher Dazzy Vance, courtesy of reader Bruce Menard. Interesting uni detail: We’ve seen plenty …
The MLB Artwork of Walter Helfer
If you can’t see the slideshow, click here; to see a larger version of it, click here At last month’s Uni Watch party, reader Walter Helfer brought along an old …
The Pleasures of Wayward Luggage
We’ve seen plenty of cases of MLB umpires wearing makeshift uniforms after their luggage was lost. But reader Jerry Wolper has come up with a particularly unusual case in which …
MLB Teams Unveil New Jerseys in November, Somehow Manage to Avoid Using Camouflage
Click to enlarge The Texas Rangers introduced Prince Fielder to the media yesterday and used the occasion to showcase some jersey tweaks for 2014. The changes are subtle but notable. …
A Look Back at Some MLB Uniform Prototypes
Major historical find today, kids. Here’s the backstory: I’ve written several times about Stan the Man wearing the Cardinals’ 1956 home whites while displaying a new set of road grays …
Monday Morning Uni Watch
I’ve been saying for years that the Giants’ gray pants look a bit too blah and that they should switch them to white. Yesterday they finally did just that, breaking …
The Best Argument Ever Against (or Maybe For) Pajama Pants
The top photo shows the cleats that Red Sox outfielder Shane Victorino wore for last night’s World Series game. The screen shot below that shows how those cleats looked during …
Uni-Related Observations from Game One of the World Series
Click to enlarge Yesterday I Ticker-linked to an article that said, “If a player wants to keep wearing the same hat he wore in the playoffs, either because it fits …
Revealed: The Story Behind the Dodgers’ Red Numbers
The red uni numbers on the front of the Dodgers’ jerseys, which the team began wearing in 1952, are among the most unusual uniform elements in all of Major League …
Gold on the Brain
Dressed to the Nines shows that the 1969 A’s wore green caps with a white “A” logo. So I perked up when reader Roger Faso recently pointed me toward this …
Source: New MLB Caps in 2014
Got a note yesterday from someone who claims to have a lot of connections in the cap world (and who convinced me that those connections are legitimate). He had some …
Well Blow Me Down: A Look at a Certain Baseball Term
With the baseball season winding down, I want to shift away from sports aesthetics today and take a look at a particular aspect of sports nomenclature that’s been on my …
The Return of the Stargell Stars
Click to enlarge I was all set to say, “You have one of the most beautiful home unis in the sport, you wait over two decades to get into a …