Remember Friday’s post about Dodgers minor leaguers wearing letters instead of numbers during spring training? That mystery has now been solved, as reader David Highhill has come up with a …
Month: May 2011
It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane …
Yesterday was Super Sam Fuld Cape Day in Tampa, as the Rays gave away superhero capes to all kids in attendance (and apparently to at least one adult). As you …
(Ladies and) Gentlemen…Start Your Engines
By Phil Hecken Today is the Indy 500. That’s pretty much all you need to know. But if you want to know more, then you need to read the following …
True Colors – Volume III (Part B)
By Phil Hecken Last weekend, I featured one of our extraordinary colorizers, Gary Chanko, who presented a the first half of a Colorization Tutorial, Part I. If you missed that, …
Uni Watch History Mystery: Red Letter Day Revisited
A few weeks ago I ran a piece about how the Dodgers used to have certain players wear letters instead of uni numbers during spring training. The letters we had …
What’s in a Name?
Twelve years ago today, the very first Uni Watch column was published in the Village Voice. Almost immediately, there was confusion about the column’s name. It seemed easy enough to …
Lightning Strikes Twice
NHL conference championship merch leaked yesterday. And that prompted several readers to raise a point about the Lightning. Gordon Fall summarized it best: As you know, the Lightning are introducing …
Uni Watch DIY Project: Cock-a-Doodle-Doo!!
[Editor’s Note: Back in early 2009 and I featured a DIY project by Rob Waynick. He’s back today with a new DIY jersey (see above). Enjoy ”” PL] By Rob …
There’s No Service Like Wire Service, Vol. 30
Time for another batch of classic wire service photographs. The images in this batch were submitted by Mike Hersh, Bruce Menard, Jerry Wolper, Brendan Slattery, Mako Mameli, and Phil. Off …
True Colors – Volume III (Part A)
By Phil Hecken Almost every weekend, I publish a great feature called, “Colorize This!” which features the colorization efforts of the Uni Watch readership. It’s been going strong for six …
Tim E.’s MLB, Template Style, Part the Second
By Phil Hecken Last weekend, I brought you Tim E. O’Brien and his fantastic MLB 3D template and a dozen or so MLB concepts. You can see those and more …
‘Big crowd, huh?’ ‘Yup, full house.’
Got a weird one for you today, gang. It’s the story of a photo that offers more — and less — than meets the eye. Let’s start by visiting this …
Like Father, Like Son
Yesterday I ran the transcript of Robert Harvell’s interview with longtime Rams equipment manager Todd Hewitt. As many of you know, Todd was born into the job, because his father, …
Uni Watch Profiles: Todd Hewitt
As many of you know, the Rams fired longtime equipment manager Todd Hewitt back in January. Today we have an extensive interview with him, but it wasn’t conducted by me. …