Product proposal
New puzzles with a baseball-history twist.
Introducing 1000-piece puzzles reviving the uniforms of old-time baseball.
• An ideal gift for those who love history-based puzzles, and baseball!
• Each puzzle shows how early baseball really looked — see the colors and styles of uniforms from the nineteenth century — the years when baseball first became our National Pastime
• Each uniform has been meticulously researched and documented by Craig Brown in tandem with leading baseball historians and members of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)
• Craig Brown is the creator and author of Threads Of Our Game, a database of over 2,500 renderings of nineteenth-century uniforms
• All renderings have been completed and are ready to roll into production, or to be modified at a manufacturer’s request
City-centric Puzzles
Connect with the baseball history of your favorite city — 16 versions available.
• Features renderings of early baseball uniforms belonging to a specific city — top metropolitan areas known for their baseball history
• Choose from one of sixteen cities: Baltimore, Boston, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, or Washington.
• Offers great regional appeal, ideal for locally owned businesses
• Each puzzle is 1,000 pieces and measures 18″ x 24″
Omnibus Puzzle
See all of the styles and colors of early baseball — a Hall of Fame of baseball fashion.
• Features uniform renderings of baseball’s most prominent teams from the nineteenth century — 21 uniforms shown in all
• Each uniform has been meticulously researched and presented — from the first recorded uniform of 1849 to the last suits of the century
• Puzzle is 1,000 pieces and measures 18″ x 24″
Are you the perfect fit?
I’m looking for a partner to produce and sell these unique baseball-themed puzzles. If you’re my missing piece, let’s discuss this project. Please call or text Craig Brown at 678.five-nine-one.8999.
The audience.
Baseball is our National Pastime, and so is the puzzle hobby. Now this new series of puzzles brings the two together. It’s a puzzle home run.
The jigsaw puzzle hobbiest–
• age range: 30 to 60, age median: late 30s to 40s
• gender: 55% to 65% female
• trending: Millennials and Gen Zs are becoming puzzlers
• motivators to puzzle: entertainment, brain exercise, family togetherness, unplugging from online
Online sources: reddit.com, statista.com, aviva.com, ipsos.com
The baseball fan–
• age range: 40 to 65, age median: 44
• gender: 60% to 65% male
• trending: median age has dropped from 51 to 44 in recent years
• motivators to follow baseball: entertainment, family and community togetherness, unplugging from online
Online sources: rascasee.com, statista.com, colormatics.com, spglobal.com, mlb.com
The artist.
Craig Brown is a baseball historian and artist who has spent the last twelve years researching and documenting the baseball uniforms of the nineteenth century. He is the creator and author of the online uniform database, Threads Of Our Game, and is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR). Craig was recognized by SABR in 2018 for “significant contributions to the knowledge and understanding of historical baseball imagery.” Craig is a design and marketing professional living in sunny Georgia. He has a new four-color book on the subject of baseball uniforms scheduled for release in Spring 2027. See more here.
Read recent posts by the author at the Threads News Feed blog here.
See what others are saying about the Threads Of Our Game website here.