Boston Red Sox Tease New City Connect Uniform

A Uni-que Milwaukee Brewers Helmet!

I got the following e-mail from reader David Scherzer who has exposed a unique uniform quirk I’m pretty sure we’ve never noticed over the years. At the very least it’s new to me, and I’m sure to you as well.

I’ll let David explain:

Hi Phil.

How are you? Not sure if this was ever discussed but I think I came across something unique. Back in the mid ’70s the Brewers wore a road cap that had a gold front with a blue “M” logo.

First baseman George Scott wore a helmet in the field with the same gold front.

However, the Brewers just had one helmet for home and road, all blue with a gold M. But in road games, Scott wore his unique helmet when he batted as well. So, it appears he was the only player ever to wear a Brewers road helmet.

 

I can’t think of another instance where one player wore a different style helmet than his teammates. Can you shed some light on this?

Sincerely,

David Scherzer
Westfield, NJ

Thanks, David! Honestly, I never realized the home/road batting cap discrepancy, but absolutely, I think you may have hit on something here. Unfortunately, Dressed to the Nines doesn’t show batting helmets, and the Crew wore those roadies for four seasons. Sadly, I don’t have the time now to scour four years of photos to be sure the team never wore the helmet seen on Scott at bat. But back then, most teams only used one batting helmet (and only had two uniforms), so it certainly makes sense that Scott’s helmet was indeed unique.

As to the second part — unless a mistake was somehow made, I have never heard of a player wearing a different helmet from his teammates…so this could be the first (and only) example of this.

Readers? Do any of you have any insight to David’s questions?

 

Uniform Concepts and Tweaks

Time for more Uni Tweaks from the UW readership.

I hope you guys like this feature and will want to continue to submit your concepts and tweaks to me. If you do, Shoot me an E-mail (Phil (dot) Hecken (at) gmail (dot) com).

• • • • •Today’s concepts come from Jeffrey Kruger.

Good day, Phil. Here’s fun, self-initiated design exercise.

Inspired by big bold stripes — like the Devels alternate black “Jersey” sweaters . . .

And by the various skating cartoon talisman illustrations of the era . . .

I offer these very stripy Cleveland (AHL) throwbacks, with team’s secondary “mascot on-ice” logos as their crest.

First one is a mashup between the 1959 and 1960 Cleveland Baron home sweaters.

Shoulders from one year, striped pattern from the other (but keep those barber pole socks).

Research samples and comments included, as well as nice patch to celebrate 36 seasons at The Arena.

_____Second one is a reinterpretation of their 1950-51 road sweaters.

I chose antique white for the base, no outlines for stars or numbers – as the new crest is plenty colorful, and striped units are large.

Gonna have to move the patch to the pants leg for this one, there’s a lot going on up front.

This was a fun research project, helped greatly by Gene Kiczek’s book “Forgotten Glory”, a great source of photos/information.

Perhaps this concept has a place in 2027 — for a 90-year commemoration of the Barons name and their (then new) home ice in 1937.

Most sincerely,
JEFF KRUGER

• • • • •OK readers (and concepters). If you have some tweaks or concepts, shoot ’em my way with a brief description of your creation and I’ll run ’em here.

 

Guess the Game from the Scoreboard

Guess The Game…

…From The Scoreboard

Today’s scoreboard comes from Nate Gervais.

The premise of the game (GTGFTS) is simple: I’ll post a scoreboard and you guys simply identify the game depicted. In the past, I don’t know if I’ve ever completely stumped you (some are easier than others).

Here’s the Scoreboard. In the comments below, try to identify the game (date and location, as well as final score). If anything noteworthy occurred during the game, please add that in (and if you were AT the game, well bonus points for you!):

Please continue sending these in! You’re welcome to send me any scoreboard photos (with answers please), and I’ll keep running them.

 

Guess the Game from the Uniform

Based on the suggestion of long-time reader/contributor Jimmy Corcoran, we’ve introduced a new “game” on Uni Watch, which is similar to the popular “Guess the Game from the Scoreboard” (GTGFTS), only this one asked readers to identify the game based on the uniforms worn by teams.

Like GTGFTS, readers will be asked to guess the date, location and final score of the game from the clues provided in the photo. Sometimes the game should be somewhat easy to ascertain, while in other instances, it might be quite difficult. There will usually be a visual clue (something odd or unique to one or both of the uniforms) that will make a positive identification of one and only one game possible. Other times, there may be something significant about the game in question, like the last time a particular uniform was ever worn (one of Jimmy’s original suggestions). It’s up to YOU to figure out the game and date.

Today’s GTGFTU comes from Oscar Bergstrom.

Good luck and please post your guess/answer in the comments below.

 

And finally...

…that’s it for the early post, but there will be several more to follow today, including Susan’s Ticker, and of course the big one at 3:30 ET, so you’ll definitely want to check back several times.

Everyone have a good Friday and a better weekend. Anthony will take you though till Monday, when next I’ll see you guys.

Till then…

Peace,

PH