For years now, many of us have lamented the fact that this NFL uniform database (which has plenty of errors but is still the best resource out there) only goes back to 1959. Now Tim Brulia — the same guy who previously compiled our NFL “White at Home” page — has attempted to . . . → Read More: Filling a Gap in the Historical Record
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[Editor's Note: Here's yet another DIY story, this time from reader Josh Jarmon, who created a very different kind of homemade project than the ones we've previously seen. -- PL] By Josh Jarmon This past fall, my baseball team, the Dallas Colt .45s, ended up winning our amateur league championship. To honor the . . . → Read More: Uni Watch DIY Project: Pennant Race My latest vintage catalog acquisition is a 1967 Russell Southern beauty. Ninety-six pages, color throughout, and it only cost me $10. Among the many, many highlights: • How awesome would it be to see a football team wearing one of these? • Look at the bottom-center illo on this page — interesting to . . . → Read More: And look, there’s Terry Proctor getting ready to dash off an e-mail right now This can’t be a very good time to be in the auction business. With the economy in free-fall, who’s gonna drop serious coin on pricey memorabilia? Maybe that’s why the Leland’s folks have stopped sending me their catalogs (as much a shame for them as for me, since I was always happy to . . . → Read More: Auction Action By Phil Hecken (with a big assist from Ricko) There are certain things certain athletes always do (or did) — or almost always do (or did) — in the way they wore their uniforms, or the way they dressed for their sport. In some cases, they were the first to do what they . . . → Read More: Everybody’s Got A Trademark  74 comments - (Comments are closed)  Customization/Modification, Equipment/Accessories, Facial Hair, Tattoos, Etc., Footwear, General, Gloves, Headwear, Helmets, Sleeves By Phil Hecken “The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it’s a part of our past. It reminds of us . . . → Read More: Talkin’ Béisbol For months now I’ve been running contributions from sporting goods maven Terry Proctor, who worked in the biz for decades and probably knows more that industry than the rest of us put together. I interviewed him way back in November but it’s taken me until now to get around to transcribing the tape. . . . → Read More: Uni Watch Profiles: Terry Proctor [Editor's Note: Our latest DIY story comes from Brandon S. Bowker, who doesn't just make jerseys for himself -- he makes them for his entire softball squad. -- PL] By Brandon S. Bowker I’m a singer/songwriter from Lexington, Kentucky, and my band, A Portion For Ruben, sponsors a softball team, called the Kalone . . . → Read More: Uni Watch DIY Project: Outfitting an Entire Team |
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