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Editor’s Note: Morris Levin will be contributing an article each Friday while Paul takes his break. Enjoy! — Phil Hecken Capping Off The HOF By Morris Levin Next Friday, July 22, kicks-off Induction Weekend for the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Roberto Alomar and Bert Blyleven’s election to the Hall . . . → Read More: Fridays With Morris  129 comments - (Comments are closed)  Caps, Hall of Fame, History, MLB  Cooperstown, Induction Weekend, Morris Levin Paul here, helping out while Phil deals with some family-related stuff. During the All-Star Game, I got a note from reader Eric Stroker, who said, “The Texas flag patch on Adrian Beltre’s left sleeve is missing a part of the white stripe in the flag (not sewn in).” He didn’t have a screen . . . → Read More: Another Gray Area By Phil Hecken As those of you who read on the weekends are likely aware, back on June 26, I featured a website called Baseball Backs (here’s the link), which in a nutshell features the back sides of baseball jerseys throughout history (although it is not quite a complete listing). At the time, . . . → Read More: Meet Mr. Baseball (Backs) 96 comments - (Comments are closed) History, Jerseys, MLB, Uni Watch Profiles interview series Baseball Backs, Ryan Simmelink It’s a sad time here at Uni Watch, as bench coach Phil Hecken’s father, who’d been in declining health for some time, passed away yesterday. I regret that I never got a chance to meet Phil’s dad. When Phil and I became friends after he started working for me a few years ago, . . . → Read More: In Memorium: Harold Philip Hecken, Jr. By Phil Hecken With our esteemed leader beginning his well-deserved vacation from these boards, I have the pleasure of bringing you the next four weeks of assorted content. Unlike last summer, however, I am relying more than ever on the wonderful Uni Watch community to help me in this endeavor — I have . . . → Read More: With a little help from my (UW) friends Paul here again, filling in for Phil one more time. Today we’re going to take a little tour into the world of reader Bruce Menard, who has an interesting habit: He makes of a point of scrutinizing old, completed auctions run by the major sports auction houses, looking for noteworthy things he might . . . → Read More: Auction Action: Catching Up on Old Stuff Paul here, taking a rare weekend turn. And I’m glad to be on the job today, because the Rangers and A’s did something really unusual last night: They wore ribbons on their jerseys. Now, you may think MLB teams wear ribbons all the time, like on Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. But you’d . . . → Read More: Ribbon-a-Ning One thing I love about Uni Watch is that I learn about stuff I never knew about before. Case in point: I got an interesting note the other day from reader Caleb James, as follows: Many baseball players are “deepening” the pockets of their gloves by shifting their hand in their gloves. Instead . . . → Read More: A Glove Story |
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