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By Phil Hecken Well, for my last weekday offering, as we close out the month of August, I bring you the nine EIGHTEEN “Design-A-Baseball-Jersey Contest” finalists, complete with voting (below). “Eighteen?” you say? Weren’t there only supposed to be NINE? Well, there were. But the man who will be making the winner’s jersey . . . → Read More: And now — Your Design-A-Baseball Jersey Contest Finalists By Phil Hecken Anyone who reads Uni Watch has undoubtedly had the occasion to check out “Dressed To The Nines,” which is basically the Hall of Fame’s graphic representations of Marc Okkonen’s seminal Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century. Contained within the thousands of images is one that has always intrigued me: the . . . → Read More: Nights in White Satin By John Ekdahl Team USA kicked off the 2010 FIBA World Championship with a comfortable 106-78 win over Croatia in their home whites. They’ll play their second game this morning in their away blues against Slovenia. The full schedule of the tournament is available here. Update: USA 99 – Slovenia 77 (Final | . . . → Read More: Strong Start By John Ekdahl As Phil noted yesterday (or more accurately, “angrily vented”) it seems as though the Colts have shortened their shoulder stripes a little more this year. Check out this shot of Joseph Addai from their last game against the Packers and compare it to this shot from November of last year. . . . → Read More: The Incredible Shrinking Shoulder Stripes By Phil Hecken, with Brinke Guthrie It’s the Friday before the Friday before the Labor Day weekend — so that means the year’s final tennis major, the U.S. Open, begins this Monday. Since Ek is handling the weekends, that means today I’ll be joined by my doubles partner, Brinke Guthrie, to bring you . . . → Read More: New Balls, Please By Phil Hecken This is what you get when I don’t have a main article prepared — unfinished business. But I do have a lot of little things, and of course, Day 4 of the Design-A-Baseball-Jersey Contest, to get to. So, lets start off with that. ~~~~~~~~~~ MLB Jersey Contest, Day 4 Moving . . . → Read More: Thursday’s Unfinished Business  201 comments - (Comments are closed)  Customization/Modification, History, Jerseys, MLB, Uniform Designers, Uniform Manufacturers By Phil Hecken, with Ben Traxel As a part of the semi-recurring “old ballparks” featurette (other editions are here and here), we’ve looked back upon stadia which are no longer standing (or if they are, are not being used for baseball anymore). Today, I’m joined by “Boothill Ben” Traxel, who’ll take us back . . . → Read More: There Used To Be A Ballpark Here, Part I By Phil Hecken, with Doug Keklak It’s been a while since I did a post with UW’s favorite yinzer, Doug Keklak, but Douggie’s back and he’s got a great piece for us today, on the All-American Amateur Baseball Association, or AAABA (“Triple A-B-A”) for short. Those of you who know (or know of) . . . → Read More: Triple A-B-A, Douggie Style |
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