In today’s Ticker: A strange memorial announcement in Oakland, a bizarre Instagram post by the Commanders, and lots of throwback NASCAR paint schemes.
Uni Watch News Ticker for May 16, 2023
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Baseball
MLB
- Two for the price of one? The A’s yesterday announced that they’re adding two memorial patches — one for former P Vida Blue, who died last week, and one for former 3B Sal Bando, who died in January. Very strange that someone else had to die before the A’s decided to memorialize Bando.
- Many baseball fans — including reader Paul Kalomiris — inexplicably got MLB app push alerts from games that took place in the 1970s yesterday. Even weirder is that Paul gets pushes for the Nationals, so his push alerts came through as old Expos scores. (Trevor Williams also shared this story with us.)
Minors
- Here’s a recap of how the minors looked on Sunday for Mother’s Day. (From Phil)
- The Somerset Patriots, the Yankees’ Double-A affiliate, will wear military cosplay uniforms on May 21. (From John Cerone)
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- New Yorkers may have spotted this baseball-themed poster adorning the walls of the subway in recent weeks. Reader Alex Moggridge thinks they’re pretty cool — the catcher’s vest jersey notwithstanding.
- The Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters’ garish deep-v neck, collared alternate uniforms continue to break the internet days after their debut. (From Phil and Kary Klismet)
Football
NFL
- A graphic at the top of the schedule page on the Cowboys’ website includes a pretty blatant apostrophe catastrophe. (From Jason Brown)
- The Commanders posted a strange graphic on their Instagram page that shows them playing the Cardinals with both teams wearing white. (From Timmy Steffes)
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- Here’s a ranking of USFL 2.0 uniforms. (Thanks, Phil)
Basketball
NBA
- The Hornets have unveiled a new logo commemorating the 35th anniversary of the original Charlotte Hornets franchise’s inaugural season. Kary Klismet notes the “35 Years” wording is misleading, as there was a three-year gap between the Hornets leaving town and arrival of the Bobcats, who eventually re-took the Hornets’ identity.
Soccer
USA
- MLS has released designs for the pre-match jerseys teams will wear for their 2023 Pride Matches. (From our own Jamie Rathjen)
International
- With the men’s World Cup returning to the U.S. (as well as Canada and Mexico) in 2026, here’s a retrospective of the logos and mascot the last time the tournament was held in the U.S., in 1994. (From Kary Klismet)
- Spain: Despite only playing one match for Barcelona this season before moving on to play for Chelsea, striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is still featured on Barca’s La Liga championship T-shirt. (From our own Anthony Emerson)
- Japan: The J League made an incredible Twitter thread that showed all of the jersey designs from the league’s inaugural season in 1993. (From Ed Zelaski)
Grab Bag
- Lots of NASCAR drivers ran throwback paint schemes during the weekend’s race at Darlington, and Motorsport.com has a full recap. (From Kary Klismet)
- New rules issued by the International Cricket Council include a requirement that helmets be worn by players at all high-risk positions. (From Kary Klismet)
- Indiana’s men’s and women’s track teams are among the athletic programs on campus embracing the candy-striped pants made famous by the men’s basketball team. (From Kary Klismet)
- Orofino High School in Idaho goes by the nickname “Maniacs.” The Idaho Statesman has published a piece on the name’s origin. (From Kary Klismet)
- Center Grove High School in Indiana has revived a longtime tradition of keeping a “Trojan Horse” on the sidelines during athletic events. (From Kary Klismet)
- New uniform patches for the Bossier Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana. (From Kary Klismet)
- Adidas has released a new line of sneakers to celebrate Pride. (From John Cerone)
- A few years ago, several countries in Latin America, including Mexico, decided to ban makers of sugary foods from using cartoon mascots as part of their branding, leaving cereal boxes with lots of negative space. (From @JayJayDean)
- This in-depth story explores how MultiCam became the camouflage of choice for the U.S. military and armies around the world. (From @rscottrogers)
Comments (16)
J-League’s first season was 1993.
Fixed.
Orofino High is in Idaho, not Oregon.
Fixed.
That isn’t a vest on the catcher…it’s the straps to the chest protector. .
Be the first on your block to wear a jersey with “BIMBO” NOB: link
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MLS has released designs for the pre-match jerseys teams will wear for their 2023 Pride Matches.
* What designs? There is one (silly) design with a bunch of different advertisers on the back.
The SIR on the catcher’s back stands for the Staten Island Railway. The poster includes rail access to New York City’s two minor league teams besides the Majors. SIR=Ferryhawks of the Atlantic League, N=to Coney Island for the Brooklyn Cyclones, a Mets farm team, 4 and D go to Yankee Stadium, and the 7 line goes to Citifield and the Mets.
Ohio State Buckeyes baseball has been wearing these sweet throwbacks this season:
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Proofreading on the Indiana track and field item: the entry mention’s the men’s team wears the candy-striped shorts, but posts a photo of a female athlete. To be sure, it’s both the men’s and women’s team that wears these. Additional photos below:
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Got it.
Hopefully the Hornets break out a sweet throwback for their 35th anniversary this season.
They’re rumoured to be wearing the 1997-2002 teal road unis.
To call any of those wrong-looking NASCAR Cup schemes “throwbacks” is laughable, especially Brennan Poole’s riff on Bobby Allison:
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Logano’s at least tricks the eye so you don’t notice the number shift all that much. Could almost say the same for Ryan Newman’s ‘welcome back’ fauxback…to himself. Both are the best of a very very bad lot.
I’ll add that Spire Motorsports #7 and #77 told good stories – as they traditionally do.
This is the only NASCAR livery throwback I want to see:
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The A’s should create a memorial patch for the loss of their fans.