By Phil Hecken Last week, THE Jeff Provo brought you his decidedly THE-like tweaks for the Junior Circuit of Major League Baseball. If you missed that post, you can check …
Month: April 2011
There’s No Service Like Wire Service, Vol. 29
Nearly 30 entries in, and the wire service gold mine shows no signs of being spent. Most of these come from the Sporting News archives and were submitted by Mike …
Truer Words Were Never Spoken
Is that sweet or what? Jeff Wilk sent it to me yesterday — it’s the cover of a scorecard from an 1886 ballgame in Boston (here’s how it looked on …
One Horse, Two Horse, Brown Horse, Blue Horse
OUR STORY SO FAR ”¦ Everyone agrees that the 1962 Broncos wore a white mule donkey burrrro oh okay, it’s a horse on their helmets — except during the preseason …
I’d Like to Teach My Team to Hit / When There Are Men on Base
Yes, that’s me. The photo was taken in my apartment in the autumn of 2000 (I’ll explain why later on). I’m using it for today’s entry because last Tuesday’s post …
Auction Action
As you may have noticed in the right sidebar, our friends at Grey Flannel Auctions are running another auction at the moment. Here are some of the more uni-notable items: …
Info(graphic) Please…
By Phil Hecken I was going to just put up an “Open Thread” for today, being the comments are likely to be light. But what the hey, I had this …
THE Jeff Tweaks MLB (Part I)
By Phil Hecken A few weeks ago, I ran a post with my buddy, Jim Vilk, (Jim & Tim Tweak MLB), in which Jim, with able assistance from Tim E. …
Now That’s How It’s Done
Been a long time since a throwback game — on a weekday afternoon, no less — generated as much interest as yesterday’s Dodgers/Braves match-up. Right from the top of the …
The Hy Peskin Archives, Vol. 3
Okay, one last batch of beautiful Hy Peskin pics. In previous entries we’ve covered baseball and basketball and football; this time around we’ll cover a range of other sports. Without …
A Wulf in a Sheep’s Beach Blanket, or Something…
When I wrote my recent ESPN column about the genesis of the White Sox beach blanket uniform, I totally dropped the ball by overlooking a key living link to the …
An Alternate Cap That Isn’t Made by New Era
This is Passover season — the seven-day holiday officially began last night at sundown — which means Coca-Cola is undergoing its annual uniform revision. If you live in an area …
Something Up Their Sleeves
The Rockies wore their black vests yesterday, I believe for the first time this season. And as usual when wearing the black vests, they wore black undershirts (oddly, the MLB …
Getting the Red (and Blue) Out
By Phil Hecken I’m back today with Tim E. O’Brien, who recently brought us his concepts for the new Brooklyn Nets and a makeover of the Oklahoma City Thunder. Tim’s …
Leave The Uni Critiques To Us, Please
By Phil Hecken With good reason, Paul pretty much ignores all those “Worst Uniform” lists we see on other websites, and to my knowledge, he’s never compiled such a list …