By Phil Hecken Greetings, and for all who are celebrating, welcome to the Holiest of Holy Days! That’s right, Major League Baseball begins the 2013 season tonight. Ugh. OK, I …
Month: March 2013
Designing Minds, Volume II
By Phil Hecken Every so often, as a lede, I will run a set of uniform concepts from a single designer that are either so good, so innovative, or so …
Uni Watch DIY Project: A Phillies Fanatic
Photo by Barbara Henderson; click to enlarge [Editor’s Note: Today we have a guest entry from Bill Henderson. You may know him as the guy behind the world’s most awesome …
What the Hell, Let’s Wear ’Em on Mother’s Day Too
Click to enlarge MLB announced yesterday that all 30 teams (apparently including the Blue Jays) will wear G.I. Joe caps on Memorial Day. By now I’m sure most of you …
Redbirds May Stick with Blue After All
Last November the Cardinals announced that their blue road cap was being demoted. The plan was for the team to wear red caps on the road, with the blue cap …
Uni Watch DIY Project: Building a Better Bracket
Click to enlarge Got a note yesterday from reader Nic Schultz, who’s been working on an interesting project. “For the last couple of years, I’ve been designing custom March Madness …
Counting Down to Opening Day
Reader Marc Aune recently took part in a tour of Target Field (that’s him above, posing in the press conference room). “I’d been to a few Twins games since the …
Next UW Contest: Design a Fantasy Team
By Phil Hecken, with Rob Holecko I got a very interesting e-mail from Rob Holecko (He of the GUD/BUD/DUD uniform database fame) this week — the results of a very …
Designing Minds, Volume I
By Phil Hecken Every so often, as a lede, I will run a set of uniform concepts from a single designer that are either so good, so innovative, or so …
Uni Watch Profiles: Chris Creamer
I may have been the first writer to cover uniforms and logos as a legitimate journalism beat, but there were several web-based pioneers who were obsessively documenting the uni and …
Last Year Up the Hill
Photo by David Brown; click to enlarge Today is my 49th birthday. A few thoughts on that topic: • Today is also the 10th birthday of my Brannock Device tattoo, …
These Are MaybePossiblyProbablyPotentiallyConceivably the New Dolphins and Jags Jerseys
Another day, another leak. Or in this case, two leaks. That was the situation yesterday, as photos appearing to show the Dolphins’ new logo and the Jags’ new jersey began …
Question Time, Vol. 4
Time for another round of “Question Time,” where I get to talk about myself even more than usual you folks get to ask me anything about anything, uni-related or otherwise. …
Green Scene
As Phil noted in yesterday’s lead entry, yesterday marked the 35th anniversary of the Reds coming up with the idea of wearing green for St. Paddy’s Day. So how did …
Wearin’ o’ the Green
By Phil McHecken It isn’t often that a Uni Watch post is almost exactly one year in the making. It’s also not often that Paul pumps out an ESPN Playbook …