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At the recent Uni Watch gathering in Pittsburgh, George Fetkovich was kind enough to give me this book, which has a bunch of great photos. Let’s take a look: • Remember my column about the pinned-on uni number panels in the 1934 MLB All-Star Game? Looks like the Pitt football team was doing . . . → Read More: Uni Watch Book Club: Sports Memories of Western Pennsylvania  202 comments - (Comments are closed)  College Football, High School Sports, History, Little League, Pop Warner, Etc., MLB, Team Logos/Insignia, Uni Numbers, Uni-centric Books The Mets’ home opener is tonight — the first nighttime home opener in the team’s history, grumble-grumble — and, like many fans, I’m not happy about the name of their new stadium. The whole taxpayer/bailout angle is annoying, but to me that’s a side issue. The bigger concern, at least from my perspective, . . . → Read More: What’s in a Name? By Phil Hecken If you aren’t familiar with reader and frequent contributer to the Uni Watch cause, Larry Bodnovich, you will soon be. He is a collector of McFarlane as well as other football figurines (and has posted many pictures of his collection), and Paul featured a small portion of his fantastic screen . . . → Read More: True Colors, Volume I By Phil Hecken On July 17, 1979, the Major League All-Star Game was played in the Kingdome in Seattle, Washington. Although it was the 50th playing of the midsummer classic between the all-stars, it was not the 50th anniversary of the first game, which was played in 1933. That’s because, for a time, . . . → Read More: In the Land of a Thousand Guilts and Poured Cement I don’t often write about boxing, even though I’m a fairly big fight fan. But as you may be aware, HBO is running a documentary tomorrow night about the third Ali/Frazier fight, and I was able to get a DVD screener of the film, so that’s what we’re going to talk about today. . . . → Read More: Spoiler Alert: Ali TKO 14 One problem with this site, if you want to call it a problem, is that I’m sometimes inundated with more great material than I can post. This means some stuff inevitably gets back-burnered, which I always feel guilty about. David Frost, I’m sorry I haven’t gotten to you yet — soon, I promise. . . . → Read More: Grab This: The Larry Bodnovich Files, Vol. 1 [Editor's Note: Today's entry is guest-written by Jim Wagner, who'll be filling us in on a project from his youth. -- PL] By Jim Wagner Back when my younger brother and I were growing up, we made up imaginary football teams that we “played for” in the back yard. The games usually consisted . . . → Read More: Very Early Prototypes Ah, Opening Day — the tradition! The pageantry! The conference call I had to participate in from about 1:30 to 2:45, right in the middle of the Mets/Reds game! Good times, good times. Pretty tame day uni-wise, but there were some interesting tidbits. Here’s a rundown: • Weirdest sight of the day was . . . → Read More: ‘Hello, Acme Escort Service? I want a blonde, very, very short, and she has to like the Angels…’ 153 comments - (Comments are closed) Equipment/Accessories, Helmets, MLB, Patches, Team Logos/Insignia, Umps/Refs |
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