Padres manager Andy Green hinted last week that the team might soon be experimenting with nickNOBs. Turns out it’s an MLB thing, not a Padres thing, and it’s part of a three-day promotion that will also involve a crazy quilt of colored shoes and other accessories, along with jersey patches saluting formative influences in . . . → Read More: MLB to Let Inmates Run Asylum for ‘Players Weekend’
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Back in 2012, I posted a series of entries in which I tried to nail down the specifics on the nickNOBs worn by the 1976 Braves, which had been the subject of a lot of misinformation and poor documentation over the years. You can see those three entries here, here, and here. Now I have . . . → Read More: Revisiting a Favorite Topic: the 1976 Braves’ NickNOBs Serious historical find today, kids, and it’s a follow-up to something we first discussed back in 2012. In May of that year we addressed the rumor that 49ers running back Doug Cunningham had worn a “Goober” nickNOB in the early 1970s. At the time, the only rear-view photo of Cunningham that anyone could produce was . . . → Read More: Major NickNOB Discovery Surprising news from the NBA last night, as reports began filtering out that the league will allow, or maybe even encourage, players on the Heat and Nets to wear nicknames on their jerseys for one game this season. (There’s an additional article here.) This wouldn’t be the first time we’ve seen nickNOBs on basketball uniforms, . . . → Read More: Can the Glow-in-the-Dark Uni Be Far Behind? |
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