Good morning, everyone. What you see in the featured image is my first favorite Miami Dolphin, and a young Jim coloring Easter eggs in my unofficial aqua and orange “Mercury …
Category: Childhood uni photos
There’s No Place Like Home, At Least Until Tuesday
Good morning, everyone. Pardon me while I go off-uni today. What you see in the above photo is a very happy memory from forty-plus years ago on the street where …
The Littlest Shark
Here we have a school photo of young Andy Holmes, circa 1992, when he was 10 years old. “I had a San Jose Sharks jersey, and I wanted to wear …
Let’s Make a Big, Embarrassing Fuss Over Brinke, Shall We?
In last Tuesday’s “Collector’s Corner” column, Brinke Guthrie mentioned that he’d created this Bengals illustration back when he was a kid. As soon as I saw that, I asked him …
You Must’ve Been a Beautiful Baby (or at least a cute kid): Childhood Uni Photos, Vol. 2
Last month I ran some photos of a very young Mike Hersh wearing assorted Philadelphia uniforms and invited readers to submit their own embarrassing endearing childhood uni pics. A nice …
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Flyer
Click photos to enlarge In 1972 — the first year that I collected baseball cards — Topps produced a small series of cards called “Boyhood Photos of the Stars,” which …