THE Jeff Tweaks MLB - Part II

By Phil Hecken

Last week, THE Jeff Provo brought you his decidedly THE-like tweaks for the Junior Circuit of Major League Baseball. If you missed that post, you can check it out here. He’s back today with the National League — bigger and badder, to say the least. As with the first set, . . . → Read More: THE Jeff Tweaks MLB – Part II

There's No Service Like Wire Service, Vol. 29

Nearly 30 entries in, and the wire service gold mine shows no signs of being spent. Most of these come from the Sporting News archives and were submitted by Mike Hersh. Off we go:

• Who’s that in the Jacksonville Suns uni? It’s a young Tom Seaver (wearing a belt that looks like . . . → Read More: There’s No Service Like Wire Service, Vol. 29

Truer Words Were Never Spoken

Is that sweet or what? Jeff Wilk sent it to me yesterday — it’s the cover of a scorecard from an 1886 ballgame in Boston (here’s how it looked on the inside). A century and a quarter later, you could swap in a photo of Josh Outman and you wouldn’t even have to . . . → Read More: Truer Words Were Never Spoken

One Horse, Two Horse, Brown Horse, Blue Horse

OUR STORY SO FAR … Everyone agrees that the 1962 Broncos wore a white mule donkey burrrro oh okay, it’s a horse on their helmets — except during the preseason and possibly the first game or two of the regular season, when they clearly wore a non-white decal. Most helmet-history sites (the Helmet . . . → Read More: One Horse, Two Horse, Brown Horse, Blue Horse

I'd Like to Teach My Team to Hit / When There Are Men on Base

Yes, that’s me. The photo was taken in my apartment in the autumn of 2000 (I’ll explain why later on). I’m using it for today’s entry because last Tuesday’s post about Passover Coke led to a bit of soda pop discussion in the comments section, and at one point I mentioned that the . . . → Read More: I’d Like to Teach My Team to Hit / When There Are Men on Base

Auction Action

As you may have noticed in the right sidebar, our friends at Grey Flannel Auctions are running another auction at the moment. Here are some of the more uni-notable items:

• Gotta love this John Wooden UCLA hoops jacket (additional photos and info in the full auction listing.

• This auction has an . . . → Read More: Auction Action

Info(graphic) Please...

By Phil Hecken

I was going to just put up an “Open Thread” for today, being the comments are likely to be light. But what the hey, I had this one put together, so here we go:

Back on Monday, Paul announced the winner of his first “Infographic” contest. He described it thusly:

. . . → Read More: Info(graphic) Please…

THE Jeff Tweaks MLB (Part I)

By Phil Hecken

A few weeks ago, I ran a post with my buddy, Jim Vilk, (Jim & Tim Tweak MLB), in which Jim, with able assistance from Tim E. O’Brien, attempted a league-wide set of revisions for many major league teams. In the comments which followed, “THE” Jeff Provo expressed his opinion . . . → Read More: THE Jeff Tweaks MLB (Part I)