For all photos, click to enlarge Pirates pitchers Jared Hughes and Mark Melancon, shown above, became the first MLBers — at least that I’m aware of — to try out …
Category: Headwear
New Boombang Won’t Look So isoBLOXy
By Phil Hecken In a story you may have seen yesterday on ESPN, William Weinbaum reported that MLB and the MLB Players Association have come together with a plan to …
Uni Watch Profiles: Travis Radke
Click to enlarge Okay, I know there’s a lot of content on the site today, so you might be tempted to skim past certain parts and focus on the “big …
Life’s Goal Accomplished: Uni Watch Mentioned on Mets TV Broadcast
I mentioned in yesterday’s Ticker that I wouldn’t be watching the Mets on Monday night because they were scheduled to wear their brutal camouflage uniforms (which are even worse this …
Do Opposing Players Really Care About LeBron’s Headband?
By Mike Chamernik The Cavs beat the Bulls last night to tie their playoff series at one game apiece. But the big news from a Uni Watch perspective was that …
Head Games
Mets reliever Alex Torres’s new protective cap, which he wore for the first time last weekend, is the latest in a long line of milestones in baseball headwear. I’ve taken …
What The Flock? A Uni Watch Sleuthing Project
By Phil Hecken Uni Watch (or more specifically, Paul) has covered the topic of flocking on several occasions — we probably best know it as the process by which small …
Proving a Point
By Phil Hecken As you probably know, some articles on Uni Watch are weeks in the making, others months. Today’s feature is literally two years in the making. Back on …
Beanie Babies
A little while back I ran an entry about a vintage uniform catalog that included a listing for beanies. That led reader Larry Bodnovich to point me toward a fantastic …
How a Fan Design Contest Yielded the Brewers Beloved Ball-in-Glove Logo
By Phil Hecken The announcement earlier this week that Mark Cuban was going to attempt to crowd source new uniforms for the Mavericks (and which Paul covered very nicely on …
Hadn’t They Ever Heard of Eye Black?
. Last Wednesday I Ticker-linked to the photo shown above, which appears to show an Auburn player wearing a visor of some sort on his helmet. As it turns out, …
Such a Nice Jewish Boy
Courtesy of Northwestern Athletic Communications This is Aaron Liberman, the Northwestern freshman and Orthodox Jew who wears his yarmulke on the bench and plans to wear it on the court …
What’s a Ute?
By Phil Hecken I get a pretty decent amount of uniform concepts (logo concepts, cap concepts, helmet concepts, etc.) sent my way (THANK YOU and keep ’em coming!), and occasionally …
And Look, There’s Brian Urlacher in a Vitaminwater Cap
Every Stupor Bowl week, someone will ask me, “You work in media, so don’t you wanna go to Media Day?” No thank you. Who wants to deal with that zoo? …