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{Editor’s Note: Today we have a guest entry from reader Mario Fontana, who’ll be discussing a collection that he’s particularly passionate about. — PL] By Mario Fontana For the past three years I have been on a mission to collect the mammoth 137-figure 1988 Starting Lineup football set from Kenner. It has been . . . → Read More: Go Figure, It Figures, Figured Out, Etc. Last week I wrote about Eugenio Velez’s jersey typo. I’m often the only writer who covers glitches like these, but not this time — the media world was buzzing about the misspelling, mainly because it had been called out in this AP story, which was picked up by just about every media outlet . . . → Read More: The Story Behind the Sotry  144 comments - (Comments are closed)  MLB, Typos/Glitches/Wrong Uni/Etc., Uni-centric Magazine/Newspaper items On Saturday I hopped in the car with my buddies Shane Arbogast and Friederike Paetzold (yes, they win the award for the couple with the most syllables). We were heading upstate to meet up with our friend Robert Vickers, who has a house up in Barryville. I’d been told that some bowling . . . → Read More: Bowled Over and Over By Phil Hecken It’s one of the greatest traditions is all of sport, and it’s probably the MOST famous one in which the winner is awarded an article of clothing. Yes, the winner of golf’s only “permanent” Major receives a Green Jacket (and a prize of $1.35 million) upon winning the Masters. The . . . → Read More: Wearin’ O’ The Green By Phil Hecken Forty-five years ago, in 1965 to be precise, the newly-named Houston Astros played host to the Philadelphia Phillies in the first ever regular season game in the newly-opened Eighth Wonder of the World, the Houston Astrodome (The first ever game in the Astrodome was played on April 9, 1965, in . . . → Read More: But Will They Close The Roof? 129 comments - (Comments are closed) Caps, History, Jerseys, MLB, Pants, Patches, Stirrups, Throwbacks The wire service photo archives appear to be a near-bottomless source of notable imagery. Here’s the latest haul: • Looks like we may have to revise the earflap timeline yet again. That shot is from 1959. Temple batted right-handed, so that must have been a double-flapped helmet he was trying on there. Appears to . . . → Read More: There’s No Service Like Wire Service, Vol. 9 Three games into the baseball season and we already have our first jersey typo. It happened yesterday afternoon in Houston, where Giants reserve outfielder Eugenio Velez had his city name misspelled. This was his first appearance of the season, so it’s not clear if he’d also been wearing the typo on Monday and . . . → Read More: Letter Imperfect Vince has finished tabulating the resuts for our annual NCAA bracket contest. The 10 winners will choose from the following prizes: a free Uni Watch membership, a Bruins Winter Classic tee (tagged as size XL, although it measures 21″ pit-to-pit, which means it’s really more like a large or even a very generous . . . → Read More: Capping Off the College Hoops Season |
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