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By Phil Hecken OK. On to day two of the Uni Tracking Extravaganza. If you missed part one — it’s here. Lots to get to today, so we’ll start right in. ~~~~~~~~~~ We begin today with Mike Styczen (“Mike 2″), who is the Toronto Blue Jays trackmaster. First off, let me . . . → Read More: Tracking The Unis, Part II By Phil Hecken Welcome to the first part of the first edition of “Tracking The Unis,” an undertaking of many Uni Watching baseball fans. What began as a “suggestion” in the Comments way back in April, has transpired to well over 20 of you fine folks “tracking” your favorite team by uniform — . . . → Read More: Tracking The Unis, Part I Been a while since I played show-and-tell with my library of vintage uniform and equipment catalogs, and I’ve acquired some interesting new additions to the collection since then. Here’s a breakdown: • 1964 AALCO Backboard Catalog: This is a bit of an oddball, beause it’s so specific. Like, c’mon, 12 pages devoted to . . . → Read More: A Catalog of Catalogs There were at least five people at last night’s Mets/Nats game wearing “I’m Calling It Shea” T-shirts, and two of them are shown above. And there may soon be many more, because the dude sitting next to me (who also took the photo of us) liked the shirts so much that he wants . . . → Read More: Daniel Murphy, All Is Forgiven Got a note the other day from reader Patrick Ryan. “I know you like the old Milwaukee Bucks logo,” he wrote. “But have you ever seen this?” I most certainly had not. And my initial instinct was that it was that it might be a joke, because c’mon, a team called the Does? . . . → Read More: A League of Their Own Ten years ago today, the very first Uni Watch column was published in The Village Voice (if you want to read it, here’s a larger version). It was essentially the first installment of what we now think of as the annual MLB season-preview column, except it appeared in late May. That would be . . . → Read More: Save the Gifts Until We Hit the Precious Metals Some of you have been e-mailing me to say that you’re getting “malware warning” messages when you visit the site today. The first and most important thing to know is that your computer will NOT be harmed by visiting the site. We are under attack by a spambot that has inserted blind ad . . . → Read More: In Case You’re Wondering… Tired of those unsightly Reebok logos on NHL jerseys? So is Michael Jordan! In fact, we could probably eliminate the Reebok mark from the NHL altogether if we just cloned a few hundred Jordans and used them to replace all the players currently on NHL rosters, because MJ ain’t wearin’ no vector. What’s . . . → Read More: Jordan Reveals Longstanding Dream of Playing Hockey |
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