By Phil Hecken Well, for my last weekday offering, as we close out the month of August, I bring you the nine EIGHTEEN “Design-A-Baseball-Jersey Contest” finalists, complete with voting (below). …
Month: August 2010
Nights in White Satin
By Phil Hecken Anyone who reads Uni Watch has undoubtedly had the occasion to check out “Dressed To The Nines,” which is basically the Hall of Fame’s graphic representations of …
Strong Start
By John Ekdahl Team USA kicked off the 2010 FIBA World Championship with a comfortable 106-78 win over Croatia in their home whites. They’ll play their second game this morning …
The Incredible Shrinking Shoulder Stripes
By John Ekdahl As Phil noted yesterday (or more accurately, “angrily vented”) it seems as though the Colts have shortened their shoulder stripes a little more this year. Check out …
New Balls, Please
By Phil Hecken, with Brinke Guthrie It’s the Friday before the Friday before the Labor Day weekend — so that means the year’s final tennis major, the U.S. Open, begins …
Thursday’s Unfinished Business
By Phil Hecken This is what you get when I don’t have a main article prepared — unfinished business. But I do have a lot of little things, and of …
There Used To Be A Ballpark Here, Part I
By Phil Hecken, with Ben Traxel As a part of the semi-recurring “old ballparks” featurette (other editions are here and here), we’ve looked back upon stadia which are no longer …
Triple A-B-A, Douggie Style
By Phil Hecken, with Doug Keklak It’s been a while since I did a post with UW’s favorite yinzer, Doug Keklak, but Douggie’s back and he’s got a great piece …
Design-A-Baseball-Jersey Contest — Here we go…
By Phil Hecken Today, we’ll begin looking at the first set of entries for the “Design-A-Baseball-Jersey Contest.” To refresh your memory, we began the official MLB jersey contest just over …
Cubans Versus Crawfords
By John Ekdahl The Mets and Pirates honored the Negro Leagues in their rain-shortened game by wearing the uniforms of the New York Cubans and the Pittsburgh Crawfords last night. …
Spanish Fish
By John Ekdahl A couple other oddities from this week: • Robinson Cano’s pink (some say sunburned, but I’m not buying it) logo made another appearance on Thursday. • The …
Best of Uni Watch: Revisiting The Double Curse
By Phil Hecken Today we have another “Best of Uni Watch” installment. But unlike the last one, which reprised an entry from the blog, today we’ll be revisiting one of …
Graying Gracefully?
By Phil Hecken Not so long ago, sage Uni Watch sexagenarian Rick Pearson approached me with an idea: “If you had to pick one — and only one — MLB …
Three Musketeers of Clevo
By Phil Hecken After the three pack of NBA uniform unveilings on Monday, the LeBron-less Cavaliers of Cleveland introduced their uniform set yesterday. Very nice. Having already slightly tweaked their …
Three For The Show
By Phil Hecken Three NBA franchises introduced their new uniforms for the 2010-11 season yesterday, on the first day the NBA allowed teams to officially break them out. The Minnesota …