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Punctuation Lesson (or: O Say Can You See That Apostrophe?)
First and foremost: Yes, I am aware that today’s post looks a little different. Not sure why, but we’re working on it and hope to have it fixed soon. New …
Gridiron Gallery
With our first full weekend of NFL preseason action now in the books, a few quick observations are in order. To wit: • Several dozen readers wrote in to express …
North by Northwest
This year’s Society for American Baseball Research annual convention took place in Seattle. I didn’t attend, but as a SABR member I received a copy of the publication that was …
Uni Watch Profiles: Witesock
Greetings from Memphis, where’s it’s approximately one billion degrees, and where reader Luke Pellegra joined me and a few of my friends for dinner last night. The good news is …
Think Pink
Everyone’s youth features some sort of traumatic memory that causes lasting damage for years to come, whether it’s witnessing a horrific car crash or walking in on your parents at …
Pain in the Button
Major League Baseball needs to impose some serious quality control on the uniform front, because it looks like some second-rate gear is ending up on the field. First, as we …
Inside the Belt Ways
New ESPN column today — here‘s the link. Meanwhile, for the second time in three days, our topic topic du jour is belts. This time it’s because of events that …
He Missed the Tag, He Missed the Tag!!
They say almost every baseball game features something you’ve never seen before. That was certainly true yesterday in Boston, where Red Sox starter Kyle Snyder spent the entire first inning …
NL Finds New Way to Lose All-Star Game
From a uniform perspective, the best All-Star Game moment was probably in 1985, when Lou Whitaker’s jersey got lost and he had to wear a replica jersey from one of …
Insert Obligatory Jiminy Cricket Reference Here
There are a few jillion sports out there that I know exactly zero about, each with its own uniform protocols and history. So from time to time I want to …
If It Quacks Like a Duck…
Hockey season just ended, but the NHL is still in the news, because the Anaheim Ducks (no longer “Mighty,” because they’re no longer owned by Disney) unveiled their new uniforms …
Is That a Hot Dog in Your Pocket, or Are You Just Glad to See Uni Watch?
New Uni Watch column on ESPN.com today, and it’s all about baseball pants pockets. While researching the article, I queried the membership of the Society for American Baseball Research to …
Big in Japan
Two Uni Watch readers recently took trips to Japan, and both of them made stops at the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame, where they took lots of photos and made …
Something Up His Sleeve
Uni-driven pandemonium at Shea Stadium yesterday, as Baltimore outfielder Ed Rogers’s jersey figured prominently in a key play. The follies began when David Wright hit a line drive to left, …