And if the White Sox decide to go the throwback route again, here’s my choice.

http://exhibits.base...

I own two of those three White Sox jerseys from Mitchell and Ness, they are indeed among my favorites.

Although not very unique, I’ve begged M&N to make the road version from 1932. but so far – no luck.

UW justin said:

Joe Drennan said:

Chance said:

Joe Drennan said:

Chance said:

Hmm. We’ll need more than that, I think. Did Murphy provide a source for the assertion?

She did – Sporting Life, December 28, 1907

Interesting. I’d love to see that.

The first reference to the New York team as “Yankees” I can find was in 1906, in the New York Times – April 15, 1906.

No, this isn’t refering to the NY ball club as the Yankees,. but Boston, the Red Sox, the team whos fans despise the New York Yankees. If you think about it, it’s like the Pakcers being known as the Bears early on in their club’s history.

Read that again. “15,000 SEE YANKEES TAKE FIRST GAME; Bunched Hits Beat Boston”. Yankees take first game. And bunched hits beat Boston. So Yankees win, Boston loses. How again do you make the arguement that the article is calling Boston the Yankees?

What’s in question is Murphy’s assertion in Crazy ‘08 that the Boston AL team was once known, among other names, as the Yankees.

And given that it has now been established that the Yankees had been called by that name in the press for at least three years before the quote she cited, I tend to think that she made a mistake.

We’ll need to see her source before giving her credit for such a dramatic discovery.

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I was kidding with the Twins :)

Although I would definitely like to see the mascot of the Minnesota Siamese Twins.

The Hurons should have just said they were honoring the Great Lake and all who enjoy it or make a living off it or some other nonsense.

Used some sort of wave logo or something.

Was just looking through an SI photo gallery and saw this picture of Curtis Granderson wearing what appears to be the Flanders Poppy on his suit jacket.

The Flanders Poppy is the British, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealander version of the yellow ribbon in this country and is worn by politicians and people of those countries in remembrance of their fallen soldiers. The origin is from World War I when many Allied soldiers died in the fields of Flanders: http://www.army.gov....

Another explanation: http://en.wikipedia....

My question is why Granderson is wearing this. Was it a league wide promotion? Was he overseas during the offseason? What gives?

Regardless of the reason, it’s pretty cool.

Curtis did do a promotional tour of Europe in the offseason, and a quick google reveals that he was in London around the time of Remembrance Day (11 November), so I presume the photo was taken then.

By the way, following his visit, Curtis has been adopted by five, the TV channel that covers MLB in the UK. They’ve had him on the phone a few times and they have an “Ask Curtus” feature where viewers can e-mail in questions.

Apologies if this has been mentioned already, but the season premier of Friday Night Lights is online, and the Dillon Panthers are wearing Under Armour jerseys this year.

If I’m not mistaken, they started the season unbranded, and added some UA gear after the after the pilot was picked up, but the jerseys were still unmarked. The UA logo figures prominently this season, it looks like.

I meant to add that their game day gear appears relatively logo free, but their practice jerseys and coaching apparel definitely have more UA logos than last year.

As a rule, the NBA doesn’t allow name changes for any reason, which is why we have the completely illogical Los Angeles Lakers and Utah Jazz. An exception was made in DC because at the time, DChad the highest murder rate in the country and the irony of the local team being called,”Bullets” in that context was a little too bitter. My only beef is in light of this unprecedented exception , they come up with, “Wizards”?

And if the White Sox decide to go the throwback route again, here’s my choice.

http://exhibits.base...

Is that right! I know how they got the Lakers name from Minneapolis and all that, but the alliteration seemed to fit. LAL. But I have always thought Utah JAZZ was so wrong. Like if the Dallas Cowboys moved to Seattle and became the Seattle Cowboys. They should allow a name shift if the name is tied to a geographic person-place-thing.