Category: Uni-centric Web Sites

The increasingly indispensable Mike Hersh recently turned me on to a site I hadn’t been aware of before, Antique Sports Collector. It’s filled with excellent photographs of some really nice …

Back in December I got a note from a reader named Kevin Wos, who said he enjoyed an unusual status in the uni-verse. “I’m one of the guys who draw …

Ever hear of Hy Peskin? You may not know his name, but you almost certainly know his work. He was Sports Illustrated’s first staff photographer, and one of the greatest …

Peter Nash, who runs the excellent Hauls of Shame investigative site, recently posted an entry written by jersey historian Dave Grob that featured several uni-notable finds — one of which …

Last fall I wrote an entry about a site devoted to NASL jerseys. Now that site has added a ton of MISL photos (that’s Major Indoor Soccer League, for those …

Back in January, reader Warren Humphrey pointed me toward this page, which features lots of interesting Seattle Chieftains uniforms. I linked to it in the Ticker and that was the …

Got a note the other day from reader Michael Princip. As many of you know, he’s the guy behind the fairly comprehensive Seahawks memorabilia site Greenglare. Now he’s got a …

By Phil Hecken This past week, a number of pictures from the outstanding Google-Life magazine collaboration, featuring the treasure trove of Life magazine pictures, have been again popping up on …

It’s not often that I devote the lead entry to a retail operation, but reader Scott Johnson recently told me about a truly impressive outfit called Vintage Minnesota Hockey. The …

Now that the first slate of NFL preseason games has been played, a few new developments have come to light (aside from those green dots on QBs’ helmets, which we’ve …

Jerry Glanville has always been such a blowhard. The whole “Man in Black” thing, leaving a ticket for Elvis, driving a replica of James Dean’s car — a shtick as …

If you’re a regular reader of this site, I’d say there’s a pretty good chance that you used to doodle uniforms or at least logos in the margins of your …

Coupla things I’ve been meaning to get to, all of them slightly bigger than typical Ticker fare but not quite weighty enough to merit full-scale blog entries of their own. …

New ESPN column today — here’s the link. Meanwhile: I want to use today’s post to catch up on some history-related items I’ve been meaning to cover, beginning with a …

Here in Brooklyn, we’ve got a lot of Orthodox Jews. And as you may know, Orthodox wives usually wear wigs, in keeping with traditional Jewish notions of feminine modesty (additional …