by MEARS | Feb 22, 2009 | archived news
ADDITIONAL ONE-AND-DONES Here’s some more single game jerseys, as well as corrections to one of last week’s entries. NBA: This season’s addition to the one-game genre were the Christmas Day gamers worn during all but one December 25th game. Special...
by MEARS | Feb 22, 2009 | archived news
Back when I first started collecting uniforms, about the only thing I did when checking the size of jersey was look in Total Baseball to see if the height and weight made sense for player in question. Over time I learned that size does matter as it relates to both the...
by MEARS | Feb 7, 2009 | archived news
MORE ON NOW-YOU-SEE-‘EM, NOW-YOU-DON’T STYLES Part two begins: Cubs Blue Alternates: This color/style has had a rocky history at times at the Unfriendly Confines. Twice, blue game jerseys were ordered, but never worn (1994 by Russell, due to the strike,...
by MEARS | Feb 7, 2009 | archived news
They are known in and around the hobby as “Anaconda-Kaye” bats and in looking through player order records they appear as such from 1988-1993 as reflected by the orders from their buyer. This was not the end of it as there are numerous other listings for Anaconda...
by MEARS | Feb 2, 2009 | archived news
“April 1912” “Titanic” Change for the Milwaukee Brewers by Paul F. Tenpenny (Tencentz@aol.com) Copyright 2009 Tencentsportz Reprinted with permission of the Author White Star Lines – RMS Titanic On Sunday April 14, 1912 while on...
by MEARS | Jan 30, 2009 | archived news
Not as much information as presented in the past, but if I end up waiting to have something as substantial as my last Kren article, it might be a while. I am into Phase II of my project and this involves finding evidence of players who may have used Kren bats. While I...