Sideline Babe
Saturday, September 7, 2013
Football Season Starts, Thursday Sept. 5, 2013
Monday, June 10, 2013
Vintage Baseball Cuffs
About a month ago I was lucky to come upon a huge box of vintage baseballs, many used, many game played, and from various leagues, and time frames such as the 1940s, 50's through to the present, making each of them one of a kind and unique.
Nothing beats the time worn appeal of a vintage game used baseball, wondering who held it, pitched it, and hit it in a ball park, something so rustic and nostalgic. These baseballs are slightly thinner then newer ones and have better characteristic quality, plus they hold the rhinestones and embellishments a lot better.
The following pictures are of the finished cuffs, one was a custom for Christina and the other a custom for Skylar.
Christina's Vintage Bling Cuff:


Skylar's Vintage Basic Cuff:


When deciding on what kind of cuff to have customized, keep in mind color combos, patterns and ask questions if unsure of what design or pattern to go with.
Have an amazing Monday,
xoxo
Lisa
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Volleyball Anyone?
Thursday, May 30, 2013
College Football Cuffs
It may be just Spring, but football season will be here before you know it, especially college football. As a NJ native, I will always have a special place for NJ colleges and teams, such as Rutgers, and my alumni Caldwell College, but my football heart will always belong to Notre Dame.
In the past few years I have done many college football, baseball and basketball cuffs for customers requesting their school colors, many from Texas Am, South Carolina and Rutgers, making the creation more exciting when you have to work with different team colors and football skins.
Too get you thinking, and to prepare for college football season, I have created a few more Rutgers style cuffs w/football leather in red and in black which can be customized to your style w/a rhinestone R for Rutgers or stitched patch letter, or enamel/resin logo center, etc.
All cuffs come with a metal lined insert or with a clasp, please order accordingly or let me know at check out!
Friday, May 10, 2013
Vintage Baseball Stash
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Brief Re-visit of Baseball Origins
The first published rules of baseball were written in September of 1845 for a New York City "base ball" club called the Knickerbockers., founded volunteer firefighter and bank clerk Alexander Cartwright, who is also commonly known as "the father of baseball". Cartwright would codify a new set of rules that would form the basis for modern baseball, calling for a diamond-shaped infield, foul lines and the three-strike rule. One important rule, the 13th, stipulated that the player need not be physically hit by the ball to be put out; this permitted the subsequent use of a farther-travelling hard ball. Evolution from the so-called "Knickerbocker Rules" to the current rules is fairly well documented, thus abolishing the dangerous practice of tagging runners by throwing balls at them.

On June 3, 1953, Congress officially credited Cartwright with inventing the modern game of baseball, and he is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. However, the role of Cartwright himself has been disputed. His authorship may have been exaggerated in a modern attempt to identify a single inventor of the game, although Cartwright may have a better claim to the title than any other single American.
Cartwright, a New York bookseller who later caught "gold fever", umpired the first-ever recorded U.S. baseball game with codified rules in Hoboken, New Jersey on June 19, 1846, the Knickerbockers played the first official game of baseball against a team of cricket players, the game ended, and the other team (The New York Nines) won, 22-1. Cartwright also introduced the game in most of the cities where he stopped on his trek west to California to find gold, beginning a new, American tradition.
In 1851, the game of baseball was already well-established enough that a newspaper report of a game played by a group of teamsters on Christmas Day referred to the game as, "a good old-fashioned game of baseball.

In 1857, sixteen clubs from modern New York City sent delegates to a convention that standardized the rules, essentially by agreeing to revise the Knickerbocker rules. In 1858, twenty-five including one from New Jersey founded a going concern but the National Association of Base Ball Players is conventionally dated from 1857. It governed through 1870 but it scheduled and sanctioned no games.
In 1858, clubs from the association played a cross-town, all-star series pitting Brooklyn clubs against clubs from New York and Hoboken.
On July 20, 1858, an estimated crowd of about 4,000 spectators watched New York and Hoboken defeat Brooklyn by a score of 22-18. The New York team included players from the Union, Empire, Eagle, Knickerbocker and Gotham clubs. The Brooklyn team included players from the clubs Excelsior, Eckford, Atlantic and Putnam.
In a return match held August 17, 1858, and played at the Fashion Course in the Corona neighborhood of Queens, a slightly smaller crowd cheered Brooklyn to a win over New York and Hoboken by a score of 29-8.
New York won a third game in the series, also played at the Fashion Course, on September 10, 1858. It appears that admission fees were charged, as "surplus funds" from the games were to be donated to charity.
By 1862 some NABBP member clubs offered games to the general public in enclosed ballparks with admission fees.During and after the American Civil War, the movements of soldiers and exchanges of prisoners helped spread the game. As of the December 1865 meeting, the year the war ended, there were isolated Association members in Fort Leavenworth, St. Louis, Louisville, and Chattanooga, Tennessee, along with about 90 members north and east of Washington, D.C..

Already in the 19th century, the "old game" was invoked for special exhibitions such as reunions and anniversaries — and for making moral points. Today hundreds of clubs in the U.S. play "vintage base ball" according to the 1845, 1858, or later rules (up to about 1887), usually in vintage uniforms. Some of them have supporting casts that recreate period dress and manner, especially those associated with living history museums.
For more info visit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_baseball
xoxo
Lisa
Friday, May 3, 2013
History of Yankee Stadium, Legends, & Cuff Season







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