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Remember Friday’s post about Dodgers minor leaguers wearing letters instead of numbers during spring training? That mystery has now been solved, as reader David Highhill has come up with a 1960 article from the Spokane Daily Chronicle that cracks the code. A few thoughts and follow-ups on this: • The highlighted paragraph covers . . . → Read More: Easy as A-B-C: History Mystery Solved! Yesterday was Super Sam Fuld Cape Day in Tampa, as the Rays gave away superhero capes to all kids in attendance (and apparently to at least one adult). As you can see in the photo above, Fuld himself donned one of the capes as the Rays celebrated their 7-0 win over the Indians. . . . → Read More: It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane … By Phil Hecken Today is the Indy 500. That’s pretty much all you need to know. But if you want to know more, then you need to read the following piece by Rob Caplette, who is one of Uni Watch’s auto racing junkies. I used to be into the Indy 500 (I even . . . → Read More: (Ladies and) Gentlemen…Start Your Engines By Phil Hecken Last weekend, I featured one of our extraordinary colorizers, Gary Chanko, who presented a the first half of a Colorization Tutorial, Part I. If you missed that, you can check out the entire article here. Today, Gary is back with the second half of the tutorial. As with Part I, . . . → Read More: True Colors – Volume III (Part B) A few weeks ago I ran a piece about how the Dodgers used to have certain players wear letters instead of uni numbers during spring training. The letters we had identified as part of the alpha series were H, S, X, and possibly T. We can now add a new letter to the Dodgers . . . → Read More: Uni Watch History Mystery: Red Letter Day Revisited Twelve years ago today, the very first Uni Watch column was published in the Village Voice. Almost immediately, there was confusion about the column’s name. It seemed easy enough to me: “Uni Watch,” two words, both capitalized, with a space in between, simple. But some people apparently found it challenging — Uniwatch, UniWatch, . . . → Read More: What’s in a Name? NHL conference championship merch leaked yesterday. And that prompted several readers to raise a point about the Lightning. Gordon Fall summarized it best: As you know, the Lightning are introducing a new logo for next season. They’re already using it everywhere but on their uniforms, which has created some confusion. Take the NHL . . . → Read More: Lightning Strikes Twice [Editor's Note: Back in early 2009 and I featured a DIY project by Rob Waynick. He's back today with a new DIY jersey (see above). Enjoy — PL] By Rob Waynick I recently did a faux throwback-style jersey for my old beer league softball team, the Big Roosters. I designed all the logos . . . → Read More: Uni Watch DIY Project: Cock-a-Doodle-Doo!! |
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