Click to enlarge By Phil Hecken Dan Kennedy. Our contest to redesign the USA Baseball jersey has now concluded (if you missed it, ), and in a vote that turned out to be very close for second place, Dan Kennedy easily cruised to the “win.” (Sorry, Dan, there’s no prize for your efforts, but it was a great submission). If that name sounds familiar to you, Dan also back in August of last year.

Clearly Dan is cheating doing a very good job with his design work! It was a strong field of contestants and (as of 9:00 pm last evening), included 2,205 voters (casting a total of 3,734 votes), and Dan collected 545 of those.

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Second through fourth place received 468, 462, and 454 votes, so it was that close. But Dan grabbed a lead and held onto it. Here’s the final vote: A big thanks, once again, to everyone who participated and voted — this was a great contest and I thought we received MANY strong submissions — including several (such as Dan’s, which is pictured above) that not only could but should serve as the basis for a new USA Baseball jersey.

They could do a lot worse (and probably will, whenever their next redesign occurs). So if anyone from Majestic (or whoever will have the USA Baseball contract is going forward) is reading this.

You can see all of the. So, congratulations Dan.

Probably gonna have to ban you from participating in any future contests Keep up the good work!.. In Search of the “Perfect” Baseball Card Earlier this year, I ran a post in which reader Ray Hund described his quest — and “rules” —. I had asked readers to submit their own submissions for what they considered to be their own version of the perfect card.

I’ll run these periodically. If you have a submission for your own “Perfect” baseball card, with a short(ish) writeup and of course, an image (or images) of your own perfect card. • • • We begin today with Brandon Merchant: Respectfully. I don’t care what you say.

This is the perfect card. Rough around the edges, painted on off-color helmet, satin practice jacket collar creeping out, Reggie gazing off into the distance through rose colored ’70’s shades This is what card collecting was for a kid born early in that decade. This was the first year my brother and I started collecting – and mutually our favorite all-time card to this day. First year I played baseball.

3 homers in Game 6. I was hooked. Yankees and Reggie fan for life. Baseball fan for life. Led to me playing as long as I could, then coaching Little League for 17 years (and counting), becoming a youth instructor and now a high school coach. The stars aligned when this card was created and those 3 home runs were hit, and it has affected many people along the way.

I was lucky enough to get it signed by the dad of a friend who knows Reggie well, when he came to town to visit him a couple of years ago. I know it doesn’t meet your criteria, but had to share. Love the site.

–Brandon Merchant • • • And we conclude today with Bob Andrews: Wow, this is right up my alley. I do a memorabilia/sports card blog. This has been kicked around the blogosphere and I always have the same answer. It’s the 1978 Topps Eddie Murray rookie. Check out my.

It’s also exactly 5 years ago today. Great idea for a lede btw. Hope you make it a regular feature. I may get a chance to put up an anniversary post today and I’ll tie it in to UniWatch. -Bob Andrews • • • I received a bunch of submissions from you guys already, and I’ll continue to run them — if you’d like to send me your “perfect” card, my e-mail address is above... Following Up On Leo’s World Yesterday’s Uni Watch featured a great, in-depth detail of a 1939 color film featuring the Brooklyn Dodgers vs.

Detroit Lions, If you haven’t had a chance to check that out, I’d recommend doing so before reading further. Anyway, I was contacted by reader Bill Moss — who sent in the original ticker entry — with a really neat follow up (you can click any images below to enlarge) Here’s Bill: • • • • • Hi Phil – I’m the reader who submitted the Brooklyn vs. Detroit color film link last week. I enjoyed reading Leo Strawn’s observations in today’s Uni-Watch. The Brooklyn Dodger player wearing number 0 is Frank “Bruiser” Kinard, a great two-way tackle and place kicker who was elected to the Pro Football Hall Of Fame in 1971. I don’t know why he’s wearing that number in this game – he’s usually pictured wearing number 25 or 44. Kinard was the first All-American at Ole Miss in the 1930s, and later became an assistant coach and the university’s athletic director.

There was another Frank Kinard who wore #44 at Old Miss in the 1960s, and I believe he was Bruiser Kinard’s son. In the third quarter of the 1939 game, Kinard made the PAT after the Dodger’s only touchdown, by fellow Hall Of Famer Clarence “Ace” Parker. Not only is Kinard’s uniform number unusual – as seen at the 7:00 mark in the video, he was not wearing his helmet while making the kick. I took another close look at the Dodgers vs.

Earlier in the game, Bruiser Kinard, the Dodger player wearing number 0, can be seen wearing number 25. My guess is that his regular jersey may have been damaged during the game and number 0 was the only available replacement. Here’s a link to the New York Times story on September 35, 1939.

Best regards, Bill Moss Boynton Beach, Florida • • • • • Awesome stuff! Thanks so much for the follow up, Bill.

This is what I love so much about Uni Watch: something that began as a (admittedly awesome) ticker item has sparked such obsessive study and really given us all quite a great backstory and history lesson. Cheers to Bill & Leo!.. The Colorful Curling World(s) I confess that while I’ve been curling a lot this winter, I haven’t watched (almost) ANY curling this year. Now, some of you may think of watching curling (especially if you don’t actually curl yourself) as about as much fun as watching paint dry. But believe me, when you watch the top echelon curlers, you can appreciate how *good* they are. Anyway, the Men’s Worlds have been taking place this week and I haven’t watched a second of it (it concludes today), so I was pleasantly surprised when I received an e-mail from Will Scheibler who sent in a bunch of photos that provide a nice rundown of the nations’ involved in this year’s matches.

You’ll note that the jackets and sweaters are pretty colorful (and usually representative of that nation’s colors) and not everyone wears the traditional black pants. China has an interesting set, and a couple rinks have what look like “jeans”. Team Norway (looks like they’re a different rink than the one normally skipped by Thomas Ulsrud, which made a household name) went traditional (also — their shirt backs say “DANMARK” so I’m guessing the Danes compete for the right to represent Norway — perhaps you guys who follow this more closely than I can fill us in). You’ll also note that many of the players now wear sneakers (rather than traditional “curling shoes”) which have special sliders and grippers attached to them. Also, be sure to check out the shirts on Netherlands!

Below is a short writeup and many photos from the Championships. You can click on the photos to enlarge.

Here’s Will: • • • • • World Men’s Curling Championship has been going on in Edmonton’s Northlands Coliseum. Wrapping up with medal games this Sunday. Opening ceremonies with some former World Champions and Brier winners from Alberta throwing out the first stone: Picture of teams. Tried to find a couple photos of each team showing at least front and back of a team shirt: • • • CANADA: • • • CHINA: • • • GERMANY: • • • ITALY: • • • JAPAN: • • • NETHERLANDS: • • • NORWAY: • • • RUSSIA: • • • SCOTLAND: • • • SWEDEN: • • • SWITZERLAND: • • • UNITED STATES: • • • • • Thanks, Will!.. In Case You Missed ItPaul’s Latest ESPN Piece Paul actually had TWO pieces on ESPN on Friday: Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Marcus Stroman and Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Blake Snell combined to do something very rare Thursday. Rare, but not unprecedented.

Stroman and Bell, who started Thursday night’s game for their respective teams, both wear single-digit uniform numbers — No. 6 for Stroman and No. According to ESPN Stats & Information, their pitching matchup at Tropicana Field on Thursday night marked the first time two single-digit starters had faced off since Sept. 14, 1941, when Johnny Hutchings (who wore No. 5) of the Boston Braves opposed Johnny Schmitz (No. 7) of the Chicago Cubs. If you haven’t had a chance to check it out,.

Definitely worth the read if you haven’t already. Also on Friday, making a welcome return, was Paul’s Friday Flashback. With the Detroit Lions revealing their new uniform set next Thursday, April 13, and some early reports indicate that the design may include chrome face masks. (A chrome grille for Detroit — appropriate, right?).

With that as the backdrop, Paul’s piece takes a look at how the Chargers started the colored face mask revolution. You can as well. Another highly recommended read... Too Good for the Ticker Got an e-mail yesterday that’s too long (and too good) for just the ticker. It comes from reader Chris Fox and it has to do with “Delaware Valley Rocks.” I’ll let Chris explain (you can click on the images to enlarge). Here’s Chris: • • • (A) group of young moms and dads in the Philadelphia area, aka the “Delaware Valley” have started on online campaign to spread joy to young kids simply by painting and hiding rocks at shopping centers, in libraries, schoolyards and little league fields.

The finder posts a picture in a “closed” facebook group that has grown to more than 10,000 members since its inception in January. My wife and kids have been into for months and this weekend, I decided to try my hand. (Friday) night, I went with 1950 cap logos.

(Last) night, Catfish Hunter and Nolan Ryan pullovers and Steve Carlton powder blue zip up. Three iconic 70s baseball jerseys. The results were respectable.

Love the site, and have gotten my 9 year son into it as well. Sincerely, Chris Fox... Thanks, Chris — wonderful stuff and great job! Now, on to the ticker.. Uni Watch News Ticker By Phil Baseball News: A comment about the “worst jerseys in MLB history” led to, featuring some of MLB’s more questionable uni choices. The Beloit Snappers (single A affiliate of the A’s) (from Zach Loesl). Reader Alan Miller writes, “Big fans of the site.

We this week. My partner to match his seahawks one.” “Wanted to send you,” says Dave Furry, who adds, “they look pretty good.” Very cool for the Padres (apparently they’ll have stuff like this all season long!). From LH Griffel. Check out this pic posted by @GopherHole of and putting the Gold in Golden Gophers (from Former Northeast Kid). The Daytona Tortugas will hold their own on April 15 (notice the jersey is NOT #42, the number with which we all associate Robinson. #9 was Robinson’s number, his minor league club).

Here’s a good up close look at the (h/t Matt Bond). On April 8, 1974, Henry Aaron became baseball’s (from Bruce Menard). As usual, (h/t Chris Hamilton). Of course, it hasn’t changed much in almost a century, but here’s an article on.

Tweeter Rob Scanlan notes, “The @Padres team store.” Pretty sure we’ve covered this before, but while the Yankees wear a matte helmet on the road, their (from Jimmy Hoss). Completely eschweing their school colors (I know, big shock), the Florida Gators softball team went with a yesterday (h/t Adam Lucas). The Saitama Seibu Lions are in 2017 (from Graveyard Baseball). The Lansing Lugnuts just hours before the opening season game on Saturday.

Until the Padres #BringBackTheBrown, I’ll never get tired of those who. It isn’t always if you’re the Ducks (from Funhouse). Hopefully the D-bax are trolling Josh Tomlin, otherwise (h/t, sorta, to Jimmer).

Here’s a pic from yesterday of Buck Showalter wearing a cap (from David Feigenbaum). I’ve yet to see a pic of Buck in a logo’ed cap this year. Good for him! (although I wonder if a fine might be coming at some pointeither that or a new cap). Just cuz–check out this (from Matt Bond).

Yowsa — check out the on Jose Altuve (h/t Denis Costello). Here’s a look (also from Denis). Even (from Keenan Soto). The Cubs broadcasters said because it required a bigger, more uncomfortable jersey (from Funhouse). “Several Pawtucket Red Sox with #MLB logo on pants/belt loops,” says George Falkowski.

“This is.” (Guessing those are his big club pants.) This article contains a really good (from Arthur Savokinas). Dartmouth softball is notes Tris Wykes. He adds, “The college’s athletic teams have been increasingly emphasizing the institution’s ‘Lone Pine’ logo, given the nebulous nature of its official nickname, the ‘Big Green’.” The Erie Seawolves (Detroit Tigers AA) have the same (from Matt Brown). Well, look a bit. “The Comeback Kim talks about his game-winning RBI and ” (h/t Jerry Adams). IT’S “HIGH CUFFS” not HIGH SOCKS. It was cold at Shea last night (and in New York) but.

That’s the Marlins’ Dee Gordon (nice screen grab by Niko Goutakolis). As Niko mentioned in his tweet, it’s total uni violation, but hey, at least there’s no New Era advert-creep! Ben Zobrist didn’t get to wear a special Royals uniform with gold lettering and trim last season because he had departed for the Cubs as a free agent after helping Kansas City win the 2015 title. This time around,. NFL/College/Football News: The Washington Valor and Baltimore Brigade both made their Arena Football League debut on Friday at the Verizon Center (we had a bit about that in yesterday’s ticker). Here’s a from the game (from John Cannon).

“When following Ray Hund’s John Hadl question in the “Too Good for the Ticker” section (yester)day, I ended up spiraling down the YouTube rabbit hole of TWIPF vidoes,” writes Joe D. “I came across a wordmark for the New England Patriots on a sideline jacket that I don’t recall.. I did a brief search on the Google machine, Patriots website, Uni Watch website, etc. But no luck finding yet. Are the history/details out there somewhere?” Here’s a great look at John Elway’s handwarmer and (from DenverBroncos QB Club). Also note the cover shows the St. Louis Cardinals moving to Phoenix.

“I guess in 1951 the choice for NFL players was,” says SportsPaper. Hockey News: From the Los Angeles Kings Instagram, check out this cool being installed (from The Goal Net). “Gonna need a magnifying glass,” (from kevin). Interesting “quarter panel” (?) jerseys seen (from Michael Alper). What’s *worse* than a really bad color-on-color game? A really bad.

That’s the AHL’s Charlotte vs. Texas (from Matt Campbell). Another good spot from The Goal Net who noticed that Hockey Night in Canada is using a — “The patches date the images,” he adds. Here’s a couple of “interesting” sightings at the Habs/Wings game last night (from Dan Kennedy): a, and a. I’m not sure which is more frightening.

Last evening, to honor Bryan Bickell (from James Gilbert). NBA News: With the news of Tony Romo’s retirement and move to the broadcast booth now official, the Mavericks have opted to give him a “Maverick for a day” treatment that will reportedly against the Nuggets on Tuesday. The LA Lakers’ D-League team, DFenders, will, adopting a name and look that further aligns them with the Lakers brand (h/t Jack Nealy). College Hoops News: “Didn’t know if you had seen this, but somebody (very quickly) put together an, complete with tiny UNC and Gonzaga uniforms,” says Dan Tarrant of this fantastic creation. One more item: here is a close-up of one of the players, showing the amazing attention to detail on the uniforms,. Soccer News: The USL, the 2nd tier of American soccer, has (from Josh Hinton). Tweeter Josh Dryer notes the “!!

Home kits w/ white numbering on green & white stripped @UnderArmour provider.” Yesterday North Carolina FC were, a longtime season ticket and Triangle Soccer Fanatic member (from James Gilbert). Grab Bag: I’m not sure how cricket numbering works (perhaps Jimmer Vilk or one of our cricket readers can fill us in), but (from Mike). Tweeter Josh Gardner points out Rugby star on his jersey — possibly (scroll down for comments).

Canadian Kirk Stevens was arguably the snappiest dresser in 1980’s professional snooker, due to his (from Graham Clayton). Yesterday, Penn State Lacrosse for the first time (from Maria Canales). Tweeter Nick Curley thinks we should “check out @Stylin_Strings and their on lax stick heads and stringing.” Just Don’t Do It: Nike has been hit with a “wage and hour” lawsuit that among other things says store employees, alleged to be earning minimum wage, are... And that’s it for today. Congrats (again) to Dan Kennedy and thanks to all who participated and voted. Thanks also to Bill Moss, Will Scheibler and Chris Fox for their submissions, and to those who have submitted for the “Perfect” baseball card segment — keep those comin’ Enjoy your Sunday (and the final round of the Masters — which is shaping up to be a helluva finish based on the Saturday scores and Sunday pairings) and I’ll catch you next weekend. Until then Follow me on Twitter.

Blue Label Soft Pdf To Excel 3 Serial Dilutions For Dummies. “Look at how wonderful the Phillies patch recreates the ‘baseball’ inside the old, fat P. It’s so unlike how sloppy the throwbacks are when the Phillies rip them out and the P ends with a hollow opening (and improper lettering on the backs).” — Anthony Verna..

The guy in the blue Nikes in the second or “rear” photo of the US men’s curling team is Matt Hamilton, out of Madison, Wisconsin. Most curlers wear special curling shoes from one of a small number of curling equipment makers like Asham, Balance Plus, and Olson. Usually black, and often pretty heavy. But it’s possible to add Teflon or steel slider disks and rubbery gripper padding to regular shoes, as Matt has done. There’s one shoe-repair shop in Madison that does the conversion; probably others elsewhere do so as well.

The trick is that you have to start with shoes with a reasonably flat bottom. Asics always fit me super-comfortably in size 11.5, so I tried to find a pair of Asics court shoes to convert to curling shoes, but every pair I measured was either too curvy on the bottom or too narrow.

The 1977 Topps Reggie card has his uniform painted on! I’m sorry, but his categorically disqualifies it from consideration for best card.

The most beautiful card is indeed a Reggie Jackson Topps card; but it is his. A perfectly framed swing while be is wearing those gorgeous uniforms. The strange thing is that a Topps Reggie Jackson card also accounts for the worst card of all time! His is appalling.

A weird action shot shows Reggie in an unflattering position. What’s more, the picture is old; it is not from the previous season. A sloppy production all around.

But Topps made up for this debacle the following year by giving Reggie the greatest card of all time. That great photo of Nellie Fox is, I believe, from the Hy Peskin collection.

There’s various galleries of his work in line and plenty more of the White Sox in their mid-50’s road jerseys with the red trim. Peskin shot another Sox game in Detroit a few years later, and by then the Sox had dropped the red in their road unis and were, as usual, sporting a different striping pattern on their stirrups. The shoulder tv number had also appeared. There’s quite a few beautiful color 50’s uniform pics One gallery that’s disappeared from the net included a number of photos of the late 50’s Athletics in their road uniforms, with “Athletics” in red/blue version of the script they currently use along with a similar sleeve patch – but with a red elephant on a white baseball. There’s also great photos of the L.A. Rams at the Coliseum in blue jerseys white trim around their yellow numbers, and huge shoulder tv numbers above yellow northwestern stripes. Categories • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •.

You have reached a degraded version of ESPN.com because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer. For a complete ESPN.com experience, please upgrade or use a Darren Rovell, ESPN Senior Writer 108d Warriors sign jersey-patch advertising deal with Rakuten, The Golden State Warriors signed the largest of the NBA advertising patch deals this week, selling the space on its jersey for the next three years to Japanese tech company Rakuten. Sources say the deal is worth $20 million per year, nearly doubling the second-highest deal, signed by the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Warriors will sport Rakuten's genuine logo with red and black on their white jersey, a white version of the logo on the blue jersey, and a gold version on the slate jerseys. Rakuten, which owns cash-back site Ebates, messaging app Viber and e-book brand Kobo, has ratcheted up its sponsorship spending as of late. In July, its name started appearing on FC Barcelona's kit in a deal worth 220 million euros ($262 million) over four years.

'We love sports,' Rakuten founder and CEO Hiroshi Mikitani told ESPN. 'There's a lot of emotion to it -- great stories, smiles and tears.'

Because the Warriors have won two titles in the past three years and have the league's top star power of Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, Draymond Green and Klay Thompson, interest was said to be high for brands to put their logos on the Warriors' jerseys. 'We actually had multiple finalists,' Warriors chief marketing officer Chip Bowers said. 'This was not the biggest deal that we were offered.'

Bowers said the team felt it was important for the deal to be with a worldwide brand. 'We saw an opportunity, given the visibility we were receiving,' Bowers said. 'So we felt in order to grow our global vision, we had to be aligned with a global brand.' The Warriors will sell authentic and replica jerseys and jersey T-shirts with the Rakuten logos at Oracle Arena. Rakuten, which made San Francisco its North American headquarters in 2015, was aggressive in its bid to land the deal. Mikitani, who is a billionaire, reached out to the team and showed up in person at the first meeting. The Rakuten name is among the most well-known in Japan, but Mikitani said it has little brand recognition in North America, even though its products are used by many consumers.

'We want to be a household name like Google and Facebook,' said Mikitani, whose company brought in $7 billion in revenue in 2016. 'Our partnership in Barcelona has helped us in Spain, and the Warriors will certainly be a pillar of getting us there in United States.' The company is no stranger to naming rights in sports. When Japanese baseball was failing, the company started and supported the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. They won a league title in 2013 with Masahiro Tanaka. Rakuten also owns a pro soccer team in Kobe, Japan.

The jersey sponsorship, which the Warriors are calling a badge instead of a patch, also comes with renaming the team's practice facility -- the Rakuten Performance Center -- and six other designations that last longer than three years. Rakuten will be the team's official e-commerce, video-on-demand and affiliate marketing partner. Ebates will become the team's official shopping rewards partner, Viber will be official instant messaging and calling app, while Kobo will be the official e-reader partner. Given the exposure of the team, Rakuten's logo should generate $32 to $37 million in equivalent advertising this season from TV, social media, video games and jersey sales, according to Eric Smallwood of Apex Marketing Group, a sponsorship-evaluation firm. 'I'm thrilled that our deal did exactly what deals like this were intended to do when the league announced the program,' Warriors president Rick Welts said.

'We signed a partner we had never done business with before. We signed a big deal with an international player and, in turn, we've boosted the value of the NBA and the Warriors outside of North America.' With a little more than a month to go before the season tips off, 14 teams have done patch deals. However, many big-market teams have remained on the sideline, including the New York Knicks, Chicago Bulls and the Los Angeles Lakers and LA Clippers. © 2017 ESPN Internet Ventures. And are applicable to you.

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