SABRcast with Rob Neyer

Baseball fans, tune in this season to SABRcast with Rob Neyer, a weekly podcast hosted by award-winning author and longtime SABR member Rob Neyer. SABRcast features insights and analysis of what’s happening in modern baseball on and off the field, plus compelling interviews with figures from around the game — and music from The Baseball Project.

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Neyer is a longtime baseball writer and editor for ESPN.com, SB Nation, and FoxSports.com. He began his career as a research assistant for groundbreaking baseball author Bill James and later worked for STATS, Inc. He has also written or co-written seven baseball books, including The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers (with Bill James), winner of the Sporting News/SABR Baseball Research Award, and most recently Power Ball: Anatomy of a Modern Baseball Game, winner of the 2019 CASEY Award.

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Episode #121: July 26, 2021

Todd RadomThis week’s guest is Todd Radom, an independent graphic designer who has created logos for professional sports franchises and events for the past two decades. He has written about the history of the Cleveland Indians logo and brand identity before the team’s recent change to the Guardians. Todd’s work includes the official logos for Super Bowl XXXVIII and the 2009 NBA All Star Game, the graphic identities for the Washington Nationals and Los Angeles Angels, and the SABR 49 and SABR 50 convention logos, among many others. He is the author of Winning Ugly: A Visual History of the Most Bizarre Baseball Uniforms Ever Worn and, most recently, Fabric of the Game, on the NHL’s team names, logos, and uniforms. He was a guest on SABRcast episode #48 in February 2020.

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Guardians of Traffic statues in Cleveland, 2014 (ERIK DROST / FLICKR.COM)

“Who Owns a Team’s History, Including Its Uniforms?”
By Paul Lukas, Bulletin.com

The Indianapolis Colts unveiled a throwback uniform earlier this week. The retro design, which will be worn for one game this fall, is based on the uniforms that the Colts wore in 1956. In most respects, this was a straightforward throwback move — a team dusting off a look from its past, like countless other teams have done since MLB’s Chicago White Sox pioneered the throwback concept in 1990. You know how it works once a throwback is revealed: Uni geeks get the warm fuzzies, everyone gets all nostalgic about the good old days, and we all live happily ever after.

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