u/btumpak

Been hunting this specific one for a couple of years and finally landed it. Mitchell & Ness Nostalgia Co. reproduction of the 1903 New York Highlanders road jersey (the club that became the Yankees). Black wool flannel, cream felt appliqué split "N" and "Y," fold-down collar, hook-and-eye at the placket, "1903" chain-stitched on the front tail. It's the older Philadelphia USA-made run — just the single script collar tag, no other markings.

The marquee Cooperstown pieces (Ruth, Maris, Gehrig) turn up often, but I'd never once seen this 1903 Highlanders. Anyone else ever owned or spotted one? And if anyone knows the label era well enough to help pin down the production year, I'm all ears (believe it's early-mid 90s).

I'm not a historian. I'm someone who got obsessed with Carthage and got frustrated that most of what's easily readable online is the same handful of set pieces (elephants, Cannae, "salting the earth", etc), with the long arc left out and nearly everything filtered through the people who destroyed the city. I spent months building the reference I wanted to exist: https://qart-hadasht.org

What I tried to do differently:

- Every factual claim is its own entry with sources attached, tagged 'attested / inferred / contested / legendary', so you can see how solid the ground is instead of reading a flat wall of assertions.

- Sources are first-class pages, including the lost ones (Philinus, Fabius Pictor, Timaeus, Sosylus and Silenus), each showing the gap between when it was written and when the events happened.

- Side-by-side source comparisons for contested episodes: Polybius vs Livy vs Appian vs Diodorus on the same event, with the points where they diverge called out and a working reconstruction. This is my favorite thing from entire site.

- Where I take a position I label it as mine, give the reasoning and name the readings I'm rejecting and why.

- Gaps get their own pages. What we can't reconstruct about Punic women's lives, or what was actually in Mago's agricultural treatise, is treated as content rather than silence.

For this sub specifically: I've tried to keep Carthage inside the Phoenician world rather than treating it as a standalone Rome-antagonist.

Two disclosures, since the whole pitch of the site is epistemic honesty:

1. I'm an amateur. The synthesis may be mine, but the scholarship is everyone else's. I'm certain there are errors in there.

2. I use AI assistance for some initial drafts and to help structure material, site, etc. Which sources to use, what positions to take, and reviewing the output are all mine. It's disclosed on the methodology page.

What I'd most value is being told where I'm wrong and if anyone else finds this valuable. Thanks!