Month: February 2008

New ESPN column today — here’s the link. Meanwhile: I love how throwaway-ish Ticker items can sometimes take on lives of their own. Case in point: On Wednesday I linked …

Rob Ullman likes to draw girls. Slinky girls, hipster girls, rocker girls, hairy girls. Tough girls, nasty girls, superheroine girls, naked girls. All of which is great, but it wouldn’t …

Did you know there was such a thing as organized competitive snowball fighting? Not only does this sport exist, but last weekend in Japan was the 20th annual edition of …

For years there’s been a juicy uni mystery that I’ve neglected to pursue. To wit: What was the deal with the WFL’s position-based pants back in the 1970s? In case …

By Bryan Redemske As expected, the Tour of California unleashed a new wave of champions kits from various countries. Rather than detail every one, because even I don’t have the …

Maybe I expect too much. Maybe I don’t get it. (Though I do Get Itâ„¢.) Maybe it’s harder than it looks. I don’t know. But why, why, did the new …

Got a note a little while back from reader Andy Edelson, who’d investigated an interesting phenomenon. I’ll let him tell the tale in his own words: During a recent Rangers/Canucks …

[Editor’s Note: Last week I mentioned that Joe Skiba had sent me some Super Bowl confetti. That prompted longtime reader Nicole Haase to recall her own Super Bowl experience, which …

Fidel Castro resigned the Cuban presidency yesterday. In so doing, he also relinquished the coveted title of WMBOD, which of course is short for world’s most baseball-obsessed dictator — a …

The new issue of SABR’s Baseball Research Journal has an incredible photo of Billy Martin on the back cover, dating back to his early-’70s stint managing the Tigers — check …

Disregard, for a moment, Dontrelle Willis’ crooked cap and Joel Zumaya’s questionable display of facial hair and take a look at the unis. Note also it’s still spring training. And …

Looks like this fine specimen is getting ready for some good times on the diamond, too. I usually dig out my glove in February or March to see if my …

By Bryan Redemske In just more than a month, the pool of Presidential candidates has been whittled — nay, chopped — to just a precious handful. Iowans had their early …

New ESPN column today here’s the link. Meanwhile: I’ve written several times about this photo of Stan the Man modeling the Cards’ 1956 home uni and holding a prototype of …

My knowledge of competitive swimming is pretty limited: I know that Mark Spitz won a shitload of gold medals in 1972, that for a while you couldn’t talk about the …