Click to enlarge The Jacksonville Suns — the Marlins’ Double-A affiliate — sent out this photo of their new road jersey yesterday. Looks like Wilson, the manufacturer, used a faux …
Month: March 2015
The White Shoe Chronicles, Continued
TBig Uni Watch day over on ESPN, as my annual MLB season preview is up, and so is an interview I did with the guy who’s selling that vintage Mets …
And Now For Our Next Uni Design Contest…
By Phil Hecken, with Jim Vilk Hot on the heels of Paul’s ESPN contest to design an NHL team for Las Vegas (see details below), I’m back with the esteemed …
The Final Floor
Click to Enlarge By Phil Hecken, with Jim Vilk Yesterday we got our first look at this year’s Final Four floor, for the NCAA Tournament to be held in Indy …
Scipio Spinks: The Lone White-Shod Cardinal
[Editor’s Note: Today we have a guest entry from Wally Campbell, who’s written an excellent piece about the one St. Louis Cardinals player to wear white shoes in 1972. Wally …
Charlie Finley Would’ve Been Proud (if he’d been born yet)
Last summer I did a post on Craig Brown’s excellent Threads of Our Game site, which aims to be a Dressed to the Nines-style database for pre-1900 baseball uniforms. Craig …
Gold Diggers: NFL Marketing Scheme Officially Becomes Unbearable
Yesterday I wrote about how the NFL was going with gold 50-yard line markers, gold-trimmed Pro Bowl uniforms, and a gold NFL Draft logo, all to mark the season-culminating 50th …
NFL Goes for the Gold
The next NFL season will culminate with Super Bowl 50 (remember they’re using Arabic numerals for that one, not Roman numerals), and the league is apparently planning to mark that …
Right or Left? Right or Wrong?
We all know by now that if an American flag patch or decal applied to the right sleeve or the right side of an object should always have the blue …
NCAA Uni Matchups – Round I
[CLICK TO ENLARGE] By Phil Hecken Everybody’s got a bracket, right? So why not one for the NCAA tourney? There have been some good looking (and some bad) matchups in …
The Unis of the World Women’s Curling Championships
Click To Enlarge By Phil Hecken As you know (or you should), I’ve really gotten into curling over the years — moving from a curling watcher to an actual (albeit …
Another Day, Another League Apparel Deal
Big news out of the MLB offices yesterday, as word broke that Majestic and MLB have extended their partnership through 2019. Whether you consider this good news or bad news, …
A Look at MLB All-Star Game Ballot Design
So here’s some news that quietly emerged on Tuesday (although I didn’t hear about it until yesterday, when reader Alan Tompas brought it to my attention): MLB has announced that …
A Look at Who Wore Green for St. Paddy’s Day
Click to enlarge Lots of green for St. Patrick’s Day yesterday, but by far the best development was at Padres camp, where everyone wore green caps — except for pitcher …
Adidas Leaves, Nike Stays Put
Big day yesterday for league specific apparel contracts in the uni-verse, beginning with the news that Adidas will not be renewing its uniform contract with the NBA when it expires …