One of the most interesting visual moments in last night’s MLB season opener between the Rangers and the Astros took place before the game actually started. This being Opening Day …
Category: MLB
The Holiest of Holy Days
By Phil Hecken Greetings, and for all who are celebrating, welcome to the Holiest of Holy Days! That’s right, Major League Baseball begins the 2013 season tonight. Ugh. OK, I …
Designing Minds, Volume II
By Phil Hecken Every so often, as a lede, I will run a set of uniform concepts from a single designer that are either so good, so innovative, or so …
Uni Watch DIY Project: A Phillies Fanatic
Photo by Barbara Henderson; click to enlarge [Editor’s Note: Today we have a guest entry from Bill Henderson. You may know him as the guy behind the world’s most awesome …
What the Hell, Let’s Wear ’Em on Mother’s Day Too
Click to enlarge MLB announced yesterday that all 30 teams (apparently including the Blue Jays) will wear G.I. Joe caps on Memorial Day. By now I’m sure most of you …
Redbirds May Stick with Blue After All
Last November the Cardinals announced that their blue road cap was being demoted. The plan was for the team to wear red caps on the road, with the blue cap …
Counting Down to Opening Day
Reader Marc Aune recently took part in a tour of Target Field (that’s him above, posing in the press conference room). “I’d been to a few Twins games since the …
Green Scene
As Phil noted in yesterday’s lead entry, yesterday marked the 35th anniversary of the Reds coming up with the idea of wearing green for St. Paddy’s Day. So how did …
Wearin’ o’ the Green
By Phil McHecken It isn’t often that a Uni Watch post is almost exactly one year in the making. It’s also not often that Paul pumps out an ESPN Playbook …
This DUD is Definitely NOT a Dud
By Phil Hecken OK, I’m back after a one-week illness-induced hiatus — I’m not quite sure what afflicted me, but it sure felt like the flu, which is quite odd …
Winning the Battle, Losing the War
The player shown above is Brendan Ryan of the Mariners, from a recent Cactus League game. As you can see, he’s wearing striped stirrups, which you can also see in …
Peel-and-Stick News Items
Click bottom photo to enlarge Yesterday I Ticker-linked to a screen shot indicating that the Mets had added uni numbers to the back of their batting helmets this year. As …
Uni Watch DIY Project: Hold That Tiger, Continued
Last month I ran an entry from reader David Byrne’s father, Dick Byrne, who was making David a Detroit Tigers jersey from scratch. As you may recall, this wasn’t a …
One for the Ages
Click to enlarge Reader John Adomaitis was going through some old childhood stuff and came up with the absolutely astonishing photo you see above. “Art Baumgarten’s Major League All-Stars were …
Uni Watch Profiles: Mark Willis
Lots of readers have recently told me how much they like “Soccer Out of Context,” a web project in which designer Mark Willis has been taking MLB jerseys and repurposing …