An article was brought to my attention today and it talked about the amazing error by Bill Buckner in the World Series. If you’re at all a baseball fan and maybe even if you’re not, you’re aware of or have seen the video of Bill Buckner missing a little hit off of Mookie Wilson that rolled right between his legs to lose the World Series.
It seems a 12-year old kid has noticed that Bill Buckner was wearing a Cubs batting glove on his hand during the botched play that caused the loss.
It’s not often that a new chapter can be added to a story that’s been told so many times, especially two decades down the road. But that’s what Uni Watch has for you today — a bona fide addition to the historical record of the most infamous error in World Series history, courtesy of a sharp-eyed photo editor and a 12-year-old kid, both of whom spotted what a generation of baseball historians had missed. And this new find goes a long way toward explaining what happened on the field that night at Shea Stadium.
But an infamous play like that in baseball isn’t what the Uncover the Internet site is all about now is it? What caught my interest is the work done by Paul Lukas on the article the above quote came from. He’s got a website called Uni Watch that’s devoted to all things related to the sports uniforms used by teams across almost all the major sports if not all of them.
Uni Watch is a media project that deconstructs the finer points of sports uniforms in obsessive and excruciating detail. It has nothing to do with fashion — it’s about documenting and maintaining the visual history of sports design, and about minutiae fetishism as its own reward. If that concept doesn’t make sense to you, no problem — Uni Watch definitely isn’t for everyone, and there have always been people who Don’t Get It. But for those who understand the pleasures of detail obsession, programmatic classification systems, information overload, and sports history, you’ve come to the right place.
Sites like this are what makes the internet a fun place to explore don’t you think? The ability for someone to produce and publicize this type of information for everyone to enjoy and use. Another similar website you sports fans may enjoy is this site.
Source: Photo reveals double curse in ’86