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Baseball typography
Aug. 11th, 2010 09:00 amI went to the Mariners game at Safeco last night with Andy and Carrie. The Mariners are epically awful this season, but it was a lovely night, King Felix was pitching, and hey, they even won the game 2-0 over the Athletics. Woohoo!
However, the reason I really wanted to make it down to Safeco this year was to buy a shirt. The Mariners have an Australian pitcher named Ryan Rowland-Smith. His nickname is The Hyphen, because he's the first Major League Baseball player with a hyphenated name, or so the story goes. So this year they have a shirt that prominently features a hyphen on the front. How many sports shirts do you know of that are a purely typographical design? Just because Rowland-Smith is, like his team, having an epically awful season and has been put on the disabled list just so his battered psyche and statistics don't have to suffer another shelling every five games is no reason not to wear such a shirt with pride. I've been faunching for one ever since I first heard about it on the teevee.
I was planning to have my picture taken at the stadium with the shirt on, but when I got there I discovered that the batteries in the camera were dead. Amazingly, in that huge mall disguised as a stadium there is apparently nowhere to buy batteries. So here's a picture from an online store instead. However, my shirt is actually white with a Mariners-blue hyphen. I like these colors better, dang it, and now I want this shirt instead. Aside from that, I must say that it actually looks more like an em-dash than a hyphen.
However, the reason I really wanted to make it down to Safeco this year was to buy a shirt. The Mariners have an Australian pitcher named Ryan Rowland-Smith. His nickname is The Hyphen, because he's the first Major League Baseball player with a hyphenated name, or so the story goes. So this year they have a shirt that prominently features a hyphen on the front. How many sports shirts do you know of that are a purely typographical design? Just because Rowland-Smith is, like his team, having an epically awful season and has been put on the disabled list just so his battered psyche and statistics don't have to suffer another shelling every five games is no reason not to wear such a shirt with pride. I've been faunching for one ever since I first heard about it on the teevee.
I was planning to have my picture taken at the stadium with the shirt on, but when I got there I discovered that the batteries in the camera were dead. Amazingly, in that huge mall disguised as a stadium there is apparently nowhere to buy batteries. So here's a picture from an online store instead. However, my shirt is actually white with a Mariners-blue hyphen. I like these colors better, dang it, and now I want this shirt instead. Aside from that, I must say that it actually looks more like an em-dash than a hyphen.
