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Never steam a dirty garment. The puckering beneath the old lettering is caused by the two types of fabric shrinking at different rates after dozens (hundreds?) of washes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/3a396ca8-4831-4aa2-a304-33c1b1fc1fe0/1052604556890928.jpg Techniques of Restoration The Mystery of the well-worn Tigers jersey: there are a few teams that were as frugal as the 1970s Detroit Tigers. They issued and re-issued their jerseys so many times that some may have had evidence of three or more names and numbers having been on the back. Origin is often impossible to decipher on the regular light table. A collector sent me this team tagged 1973 jersey which when I received- it wore the name and number of Jack Morris, a player who was on the Tigers several years after this jersey had been used. It was very clear that the name on back was not original, and I suspect that because the number was "right" for that player, somebody put his name on the back and enjoyed wearing it. The collector wanted me to determine what this jersey originally was so we could potentially restore it. The light table showed that the original number was #28, which was pitcher Ed Farmer in 1973. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/7045adb8-b91f-4d04-94c7-86e4c34adde1/1750202205185449.jpg Techniques of Restoration I lay out all lettering prior to cutting it. That way it is always applied perfectly arched and spaced. Notice the reflectiveness of the surrounding material... because it is less reflective, it appears lighter than the number below it, or the name lettering that has been aged through my process. Note also that the Orioles name on back is the proper font, vertical arch and spacing for this early 1980s Wilson Orioles road jersey. Every manufacturer had their own fonts back then, and I have documented them all. The right font, outlines and degree of arch is here. The orange thread used to stitch the layers of the name together is slightly lighter than the twill, to match the characteristics of the forty-year-old original number below. And it is stitched to the jersey with dark charcoal thread to simulate dozens of washes in strong detergent... even though in reality the replacement name on back is brand new. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/fd6176de-0f9a-4c9a-bcbe-4aceb5a77749/673982138086507.jpg Techniques of Restoration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/6bfb5134-5c4b-4296-8776-319cd647b6fb/619895803495141.jpg Techniques of Restoration Another very-limited edition: I was commissioned by a collector to recreate the long-unavailable Giants' "40th Anniversary in San Francisco" sleeve patch for his restoration. Oddly, this patch, embroidered on a gray background, was worn in 1997 only of the sleeve of the road jersey, instead of the Jackie Robinson patch that other teams all wore. I have a VERY FEW of these, respecting MLB and their licensing. When they are gone, they are gone. I am not selling them loose, they are intended for projects. Item of interest: These were worn in conjunction with the 1997 Interleague patch, which I recreated last month, and have two left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/c69140a0-79cd-4366-9d08-6abbd1f2be70/1547315422140796.jpg Techniques of Restoration AFTER: Ready to be relettered. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/f0fdc3f9-4d06-4017-a30f-2667e34bc8a9/1052604590224258.jpg Techniques of Restoration The Mystery of the well-worn Tigers jersey: there are a few teams that were as frugal as the 1970s Detroit Tigers. They issued and re-issued their jerseys so many times that some may have had evidence of three or more names and numbers having been on the back. Origin is often impossible to decipher on the regular light table. A collector sent me this team tagged 1973 jersey which when I received- it wore the name and number of Jack Morris, a player who was on the Tigers several years after this jersey had been used. It was very clear that the name on back was not original, and I suspect that because the number was "right" for that player, somebody put his name on the back and enjoyed wearing it. The collector wanted me to determine what this jersey originally was so we could potentially restore it. The light table showed that the original number was #28, which was pitcher Ed Farmer in 1973. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/cc020fd3-4a2d-4cfa-9d1c-4359fceca100/1750202898518713.jpg Techniques of Restoration A perfect match, for the discriminating collector. Yes, the original number was sewn by the team slightly off center and crooked. And that's the way it stays... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/69046905-5f68-43d9-b508-13b242f67468/673982131419841.jpg Techniques of Restoration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/40d898f7-7a58-427f-b023-826206bbdb15/561436859341036.jpg Techniques of Restoration Here, the Los Angeles 1981 Bicentennial patch, complete with the tiny white embroidered 1980 copyright mark at the bottom, for the restoration of a 1981 Dodgers game jersey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/6c53c839-62c5-48d9-9bef-f0fe6ea7f797/1052604653557585.jpg Techniques of Restoration Here, you can see the mastery of seamstress Emily as she used her darning machine to close up all of the holes on the back. We were then able to place the lettering in the official Tigers font has used that year and stitch it in place. We found a photo of Ed Farmer in the bullpen at the last game at Yankee Stadium before it was closed for renovation in 1973. That's him from the photo in the top center. I'll bet it's the same shirt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/5a5593e6-6c32-450f-b6eb-b758ba43de1d/673983581419696.jpg Techniques of Restoration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/5044462e-599a-40ac-a60f-cdb0bbbf6e71/561437132674342.jpg Techniques of Restoration 1981 Bicentennial patch, complete with the tiny white embroidered 1980 copyright mark at the bottom, for the restoration of a 1981 Dodgers game jersey Photos The 1981 Dodgers jersey restoration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/9ca1f02e-c137-4393-b323-e869805b43b4/1052604756890908.jpg Techniques of Restoration The fascinating mystery of the 1973 Angels jersey: I see a lot of Nolan Ryan jerseys here. Everybody hopes they have an original, but unfortunately Nolan Ryan probably didn't wear 15 jerseys in his 1973 record setting season. Jersey manufacturer McAuliffe was only too happy to make an authentic Nolan Ryan jersey for anybody who had $30 to spend, including adding team tagging to the jersey without a second thought. After all back then, this stuff just wasn't collectible. It was an oddity for people who wanted to have something special, and the number of those people was very small indeed. This Nolan Ryan jersey was sent to me and it certainly looked legitimate, but I simply couldn't be sure, and as an authenticator, you don't want to simply declare something as a relic of history when it might have been simply worn to the church barbecue by its owner. The black light discovered something very significant on this jersey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/81e72aeb-c43b-4685-970c-62e27ec7ea2d/673984078086313.jpg Techniques of Restoration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/a39356a8-76b7-489f-9f0b-c63b1d3a553a/561435486007840.jpg Techniques of Restoration 1939 World's Fair patch in felt as worn by the Yankees and Giants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/54c61fe9-778b-4806-ab06-92adef10ae95/1052604796890904.jpg Techniques of Restoration In spring training of 1974, minor league Bruce Heinbechner died in a car accident, and as a result for about two weeks period prior to the start of the 1974 season, Angels players wore a unique memorial on the sleeve, a diagonal black stripe next to the state of California patch on the sleeve. Because this appeared there for only a couple of weeks the only place it was ever seen was in baseball cards from 1974, and in a very few press photos. It took me several years to even find out what this stripe was for, as documentation of the event from fifty years ago was elusive. With the sleeve of this Nolan Ryan jersey was slid under the black light, magically, the image of the removed black stripe on the sleeve appeared, glowing eerily. I can't explain why it is visible— the stripe was probably only there for about 20 days at most, decades ago, and after it was removed there was scant evidence of any stitching that would have held it in place. Yet the glowing mark stayed behind. This allowed me to determine that among all of the others, this Nolan Ryan jersey was the real thing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/92c0c42d-5bac-4c60-8857-1b6bf7153cfc/561435519341170.jpg Techniques of Restoration These ribbons were made to draw attention to heart disease https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/95504db2-37d4-4dd3-b9a5-eaf06709621f/1052604833557567.jpg Techniques of Restoration Here is the full LOA if you would like to read it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/01fab4db-f8fc-4766-83d8-a4cf4a87c28b/561435562674499.jpg Techniques of Restoration The impossible to find 1976 Oakland Bicentennial patch, properly made using both twill and embroidery like the original https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/f19c9d00-38c1-4f2a-959b-dd9122ee8b9d/1052604706890913.jpg Techniques of Restoration The mystery of the restored Reggie Jackson jersey: another devoted collector sent me this jersey to evaluate. It had already been photomatched, so he wanted to know if I could tell him if the number or the name on back had been restored. Examining it in hand, I can tell you that if it had been restored it was expertly done. The fabrics all matched, the stitching looked great, and there was no signs of uncovered ghosts or lines where items had been stitched imperfectly back over old marks. I used two tools in this case. The first was the black light, turning the jersey inside out I was able to see that the stitching from the Name on back did not glow the same way as the stitching that held on the back numbers which were original. The second tool I use is a digital spectrometer which analyzes colors and allows me to numerically define the colors of fabrics. I often use it when I am matching fabrics when making a repair to a historic piece. In this case, the spectrograph showed me that the green fabric that was used for the name on back was a slightly different color than the green fabric used on the player numbers. It is difficult for the eye to see, but the scientific instrument does not lie. The color swatches at the right show four scans-- the top three are at different places on the back numbers, and the fourth is from the name on back. The difference in the color is enough to make it outside the realm of reasonable error. From this I was able to determine that the name on back had been replaced, while the numbers were certainly original. This is not uncommon at all as the Athletics re-issued everything in those days regardless of whether the player was a star or not. Also look at the stitching in the black light image at the bottom left. Notice how what likely the "original 1970" thread glows under the light, but the stitching holding on the name on back does not glow. It is different thread. This restoration is top-quality, it could not have been better done by whomever did it. But using some science we can uncover secrets that otherwise would remain hidden. ******* I hope you enjoy these little tidbits of my world that I'm able to share with you during the year. I don't share as often as I would like to, because I just don't have the time. But I enjoy all of your questions, and I hope you will keep them coming https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/82ba8ca4-7c6c-4590-b968-75698e0d3363/561435596007829.jpg Techniques of Restoration The impossible to find 1997 Marlins-only Jackie patch, from the year the Marlins won the World Series. These patches were stripped off before the jerseys were sold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/f38215af-950e-4e45-8c96-f1381d27eb43/561435606007828.jpg Techniques of Restoration I can do the 2001 Mets sleeve embroidery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/df7610eb-12bf-4599-bae2-2fe08b362789/561435452674510.jpg Techniques of Restoration The California Angels sleeve patch of 1970-1985 is not available in reproduction. An older licensed reproduction is available on eBay, but is too big. This is the correct size and shape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/8938a267-49a8-482c-b9b9-cddd4cab3389/561435462674509.jpg Techniques of Restoration This was created to complete the customization of a MLB Futures Jersey. The patch is not available in these colors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/067d6be5-a63e-426b-a85e-fe3d636f3775/561435506007838.jpg Techniques of Restoration KC Royals 1992 road jersey memorial, this one modified with the "H" as George Brett wore on his sleeve that year as a tribute to his father. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/0ad5fb80-2142-4dfb-b94c-f8e574a126be/561435549341167.jpg Techniques of Restoration Player death memorials are rarely sold by the teams. Reproductions are often sold on eBay and are inexact. This was for a 1993 Dodgers jersey restoration (Tim Crews patch) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/92283097-5d83-4f0a-87cc-711af39d5597/561436639341058.jpg Techniques of Restoration I can make the All-Star game collar stars in all the colors they were produced in. https://thedream.shop/specialinterest daily 0.75 2026-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/b1d832d5-d689-49c7-b609-496e7acec65a/711470657670988.jpg Special Items of Interest - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://thedream.shop/patches-gallery daily 0.75 2026-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/f204c7df-c72c-478f-9357-f213eaf3783e/IMG_8675+copy.jpg Patches Gallery As it arrived at my shop. There were non-standard, Varsity-style variant numbers adorn both the back and front, and there was evidence of a nameplate having been rudely removed from the back. All lettering is dark orange outlined with gray, not white (a hallmark of Mets alternate road jerseys of the era.) https://thedream.shop/gallery daily 0.75 2026-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/052c377d-9064-442c-a312-f2cde0d9b919/imgg-demo-nAJUud9M.png https://thedream.shop/gallery/1969-seattle-pilots-home-jersey monthly 0.5 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/6bce6964-5fb5-44ea-ba51-81a69b3a4b53/Maglie-and-Bristol.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1969 Seattle Pilots home jersey The Dream Shop is again visited by MLB royalty... one of the probably no more than 50 original Seattle Pilots original home jerseys that still exist from their sole season of 1969. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/0e87f270-947a-41a5-b5b8-e94ffdca6119/1969-Pilots-home-front.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1969 Seattle Pilots home jersey After its MLB service was ended, this particular jersey went to the Brewers minor league system where it became a Danville Warriors jersey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/28fe40be-fec6-478a-813f-9815b98aae64/IMG_6404.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1969 Seattle Pilots home jersey The original 1969 stitching. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/48fc9f42-dce7-4546-a80c-4f59117ba65b/fronts.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1969 Seattle Pilots home jersey Ghosts of the original wordmark were still visible. These ghosts are caused by the way the sewing thread bunches the fabric below, making it harder for light to pass through. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/2c6a9a31-244f-4325-8207-6e5f6c2c615c/Pilots+1969+restoration+20180823_3119.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1969 Seattle Pilots home jersey Here is the jersey as I received it. It might look perfectly fine to most, but it was inexactly done. With an item this rare, its inaccuracy was not acceptable! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/e0675fe4-593b-4b2d-93bf-6eff5b7de0f5/Screenshot+2018-08-22+18.42.06.png Gallery - Restoration: 1969 Seattle Pilots home jersey Here is my art laid atop the initial restoration. Note the mismatch -- it seems the prior shop found a Pilot jersey photo on the web, scanned the wordmark and used it without carefully correcting it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/7a98b952-3aa4-40e2-8e91-c8514611b5b8/Screenshot+2018-08-22+18.50.20.png Gallery - Restoration: 1969 Seattle Pilots home jersey I first compiled a grouping of existing Pilots logos from my files. Notice that two of these examples have the "S" sloped down. This is probably where the prior restorer got his incorrect data. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/880a77ff-f8c3-4b8a-8915-694471ed1c4c/Pilots+1969+restoration+20180823_3122.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1969 Seattle Pilots home jersey After removing the new lettering, the magic light table shows us where both the original patch was sewn, as well as the "WARRIORS" wordmark. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/7805d7ed-e795-4712-8474-c61b6afa3eca/Pilots+1969+restoration+20180823_3129.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1969 Seattle Pilots home jersey Look closely at this light table view, and you will be able to see ghosts of the original wordmark, faintly still existent even after 51 years, behind the darker shadow of the newer wordmark that I just removed. The shadows are caused by the original stitches that held the emblem in place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/b77d6211-a9fd-47e8-a12e-da192f9e55b8/Screenshot+2018-08-23+22.09.29.png Gallery - Restoration: 1969 Seattle Pilots home jersey This tracing roughly shows us where the original lettering was sewn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/cce0e79a-8c0b-43a3-bc39-ac695d01f0cf/IMG_6379.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1969 Seattle Pilots home jersey Here we stitch the letters' layers together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/80367b53-85d6-4990-b188-f38cd3589f67/IMG_6386.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1969 Seattle Pilots home jersey Carefully heat-pressed into place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/1432db0b-2b97-4efa-a631-c77697c70030/IMG_6390.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1969 Seattle Pilots home jersey Sewing the lettering onto the jersey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/9cc2a83a-ef15-40e2-8287-b54001c75c63/IMG_6391.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1969 Seattle Pilots home jersey A closeup of the completed job. The light table tells us that we did a good job, covering the oldest ghosts perfectly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/7d3e8603-8305-49a0-b9b2-7fbd86a179fe/IMG_6403.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1969 Seattle Pilots home jersey The finished product! https://thedream.shop/gallery/recreation-1953-st-louis-browns-jersey monthly 0.5 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/87a469a0-9c0d-460a-8646-2bcfd5bf6ddd/123045311_1455827694622903_3226027486406115607_o.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1953 St. Louis Browns Jersey Our starting point is a blank Angels jersey to be stripped of all lettering, patches and trim. Not a small task, and a significant amount of the work involved in the job. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/7dd387c7-6e70-46e0-967e-232fa12bdb28/122979395_1455827664622906_2652247655403987976_o.png Gallery - Recreation: 1953 St. Louis Browns Jersey We found a few pictures of the jersey we wanted to create. Finding period photos of the Browns is not easy. But, using the ones available, I was able to create an exact replica of the front wordmark used only in 1952-53. 1953 was the Browns’ final year in St. Louis, before they moved to Baltimore to become the Orioles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/d55d92b3-7ad7-4966-ab6f-d57b6a509dff/123131615_1455827644622908_2049200419956180866_o.png Gallery - Recreation: 1953 St. Louis Browns Jersey Here, Satchel Paige at the 1953 All Star game. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/40496709-baad-4856-a69f-5b1fd36a4238/123194397_1455827654622907_3732459801782293720_o.png Gallery - Recreation: 1953 St. Louis Browns Jersey Here is the proof I sent to the customer to approve. He had tracked down the sleeve “Brownie” patch on eBay, and with his approval, we were ready to sew. The patch’s proper placement covered the sleeve's Majestic logo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/c45bf882-a789-494d-a1a4-d20916bad0db/122976692_1455827727956233_6951164705761307994_o.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1953 St. Louis Browns Jersey Here is the final product. The numbers on back are period accurate, too. I guarantee our customer will be the only one at the park wearing one of these. https://thedream.shop/gallery/authentication-restoration-mickey-mantle-yankees-jersey monthly 0.5 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/f109d522-1421-4c0e-a9fa-86b3b106118f/79970723_1197592157113126_3889791639052353536_n.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: Mickey Mantle Yankees Jersey I’ll be very candid: when someone tells me that they have an original Mickey Mantle Yankees flannel jersey, I immediately mentally prepare myself for the disappointment I will need to share with its owner. There are not many actual Mantle jerseys, so actually seeing a real one is very slim. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/7357a3c9-8a3d-4bcd-a9e4-10abc2b377fc/79873311_1197592763779732_6261679416938594304_n.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: Mickey Mantle Yankees Jersey Here's how we received it. The "NY" on the front looked off and there were no numbers on the back, but Mantle’s name was embroidered in the collar. The jersey was a Spalding, year-tagged as 1964. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/de25dbfe-2a44-4449-855c-5f2905d3eefc/80379026_1197593210446354_2652962154407264256_n.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: Mickey Mantle Yankees Jersey Light table investigation showed that there was once a “7” on the back, and also a “57”. But wait, would the team truly send a game jersey of one of the most famous players in history to the minors to be reissued? With the Yankees, the answer is “positively yes”. These shirts were not priceless collectables, but simply “team owned equipment." Players were typically issued two sets of home and road jerseys for the year. Nothing like what happens today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/e32d1403-d6f8-4fc1-950e-2861e76b16ee/80520857_1197593600446315_2997796239560409088_n.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: Mickey Mantle Yankees Jersey I *very* carefully removed the stitching holding the replacement NY on the front. Luckily, it was not glued on and came off without a fight. But unfortunately, its residence had stained the flannel fabric below after decades of contact with it. Having the jersey bare would be important for further light table investigation of the jersey's history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/31c37e6b-b597-476f-ade8-08bf7181e9e7/79368320_1197594070446268_3407526241174028288_n.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: Mickey Mantle Yankees Jersey A light table examination of the front shows that the NY logo is not the original one. Slight shadows exist of the original crest, but notably the entire left side of the chest was darker as if something else might have been glued there. I wondered, what team might have reused this jersey? On this photo, the red lines are the residual ghosts I can see. The blue outline is the Yankees template for a 1964 front crest. How about that! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/b97ab59d-2d29-46e8-82f6-6b2f146a1d3b/79422269_1197594287112913_4552161396657225728_n.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: Mickey Mantle Yankees Jersey Internet research turns up the probable answer: In 1964-1966 there was a short-lived Yankees minor league team improbably named the Columbus (Georgia) Confederate Yankees. Controversially, these uniforms had featured a Confederate flag on the sleeve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/c4ee0566-509c-496c-865a-8e42131cf501/79816306_1197594663779542_4475983863830544384_n.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: Mickey Mantle Yankees Jersey I wondered: had this jersey been repurposed to the Confederate Yankees in 1965-1966? The light table provided the answer. While it is hard to see in low-resolution photos, there it was -- faint signs of the outline of Confederate flag having been sewn to the sleeve, perfectly sized and placed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/a509fe99-4864-4e51-b3d2-b131b2a18f5e/79947116_1197594833779525_2274277885806116864_n.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: Mickey Mantle Yankees Jersey Now that we knew what we were looking for, spotting the edges of the discoloration on the left chest allowed us to pick out the points of the intersection of the Columbus Confederate Yankees crest that had been sewn there. There are also a few small holes exactly in the places that the stitching would have intersected between the old logo and the new. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/ae85ca2a-aa12-4ed4-8cf5-bb3419aa6fb7/79755297_1197595017112840_609179052955140096_n.png Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: Mickey Mantle Yankees Jersey This was getting exciting! My search of auction catalogs showed that this one hadn’t made the public auction scene before, at least not in the past twenty years. I also noted, with a gulp, that a corresponding 1964 Mantle ROAD jersey had sold at auction in August 2018 for $1.32 million dollars! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/eb471c8e-5afe-4b6f-9f11-87009f36c482/79992675_1197595180446157_5419375234283208704_n.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: Mickey Mantle Yankees Jersey The darkened glue marks mostly came out of the fabric with a careful application of dry- cleaning chemicals. I worked gently to try to remove the blue staining, but succeeded only in lightening it slightly. This can not overly concern me: I believe that every mark left behind tells a story, and sometimes relics can be spoiled by trying too hard to make them perfect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/74e20fc3-b13c-4714-8331-1d47ca235b96/80256152_1197595430446132_3654496167888158720_n.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: Mickey Mantle Yankees Jersey I re-created the original 1964 team pattern “NY” on front and #7 on back, in heirloom Merino wool felt. The original pattern matched the tell-tale ghosts perfectly! In the placement, I ensured that the new lettering covered the ghosts exactly before I stitched them on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/5be3ba88-7bb9-45d9-b744-eff574fcedbc/79773942_1197595640446111_8820165424843849728_n.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: Mickey Mantle Yankees Jersey As a restorer and authenticator, I *always* recommend a separate Document of Restoration to chronicle this process whenever an original jersey is restored. Why? Because once the new lettering perfectly covers the old, only the shadows of what was once altered will be left behind. A future authenticator looking at this and conclude that this jersey was originally numbered as #57 and declare it a Mickey Mantle counterfeit! Our work-in-progress documentation is designed to prevent that from happening. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/3bbb8541-14e5-430e-bd0e-2f093164f39b/79853895_1197595977112744_1260242352102965248_n.png Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: Mickey Mantle Yankees Jersey Exact restoration of the original elements was critical because our next step was to try to photo match this jersey being worn by Mantle. My sponsor is Sports Investors Authentications -- they are properly licensed to use the photographs they photo match from, are insured, and have an impeccable reputation for quality and honesty. I am proud to authenticate for them. We examined dozens of photos from the 1964 through 1966 seasons trying to find at least one photo that would provide a 100% positive match. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/8f6aa318-e497-4c0b-ab5b-e8d4a4d732fc/79299099_1197606387111703_6366946703131541504_n.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: Mickey Mantle Yankees Jersey Based on the era, even though this jersey was tagged 1964, we knew to check photos from 1965 and even 1966 as this jersey may have served as a backup for Mantle. Everything must match: pinstripes, logo placement, seam alignment and even stitching. After several days of work, we were able to positively photo match the jersey to use in both 1964 and 1965! We can surmise that it went to Columbus, Georgia in 1966. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/2cdfa2f7-667b-4485-ad1b-670b026f9ba0/79830367_1197606027111739_7738523077222334464_n.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: Mickey Mantle Yankees Jersey Mantle is also wearing the jersey in the photo on this 1965 card, taken in 1965 spring training. There is a positive match to the way the stripes align in the underarm gusset and the exact location of the vent holes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/3c8ddb87-e9db-43c6-a964-cf09618bd9ac/79867005_1197596860445989_6543811321782075392_n.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: Mickey Mantle Yankees Jersey It is also *possible* that our jersey is the same one that Mantle is wearing on the cover of this Sports Illustrated book cover, but professionally, we must leave that conclusion as unconfirmed. When photo matching, it is relatively easy to rule out images that don’t match, but confirming every tiny detail to ensure the match is 100% positive is much more difficult. On an item of this significance, being positive is critical. While I was 95% sure this is the same jersey, that wasn't good enough. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/8240d434-d45f-42c8-bc13-b1324a586bfe/80117637_1197601833778825_600819650732752896_n.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: Mickey Mantle Yankees Jersey Here is my finished restoration. The customer told me that this jersey will be auctioned with Goldin Auctions in the near future. I am proud to have been a part of discovering its history and returning it to look as it did when Mickey Mantle wore it in the 1964-1965 seasons. https://thedream.shop/gallery/restoration-mets-1973-jerry-koosman-road-jersey monthly 0.5 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/23516c82-8040-4982-86a2-7be91abfb8cd/Screen+Shot+2019-04-20+at+2.27.44+PM.png Gallery - Restoration: Mets 1973 Jerry Koosman road jersey Jerry Koosman had an illustrious twenty-year career, much of it with the Mets. He is shown here in 1973 in his road uniform (I'd recognize those seats in Philadelphia's Veterans' Stadium anyplace!) It is this very jersey that has been sent to me by Mets collector Andrew L. asking for it to be restored to original so it could be displayed at Citi Field during the 2020 season. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/d3072e4b-f1d9-49a7-8aba-5358fb78d64d/Screen+Shot+2019-04-20+at+7.37.41+PM.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Mets 1973 Jerry Koosman road jersey The Mets, like most other clubs in the 1970s-80s, sent their used uniforms to the minor leagues to be reused. The original appearance of Koosman's road jersey was the arched fancy "New York" at left. How it appeared when I received it is at right; while the back numbers had been left alone, the front had been completely changed. (Click to enlarge) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/c3c7f10c-d649-4602-93c0-4f0cc8081742/IMG_9522.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Mets 1973 Jerry Koosman road jersey The neck tag tells the story: player number 36, 1973 season, size 44. The magic marker scrawl on either side must have had some later, minor league significance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/3c4d678f-1712-403d-b29d-e24dfce0182f/IMG_9380+%281%29.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Mets 1973 Jerry Koosman road jersey Like most Mets jerseys of the era, once their While the Mets' farm team might use the parent club's name, displaying the MLB city name on the front of team jerseys wouldn't do. Therefore, it was very common for the original "New York" to be stripped from the front and replaced with the home script. Here, I have begin the removal of the replacement lettering to begin the restoration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/ea1a4cb2-616f-4371-9c09-807593ac1c51/IMG_9381+%282%29+copy.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Mets 1973 Jerry Koosman road jersey There is heavy glue and some dye transfer to the fabric below. In photo four, you can see how we used an intense stream of dry cleaning fluid from a high pressure gun to remove nearly all of the residue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/c3d9c97c-3343-4b76-a94c-e802f7f0101d/IMG_9393.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Mets 1973 Jerry Koosman road jersey With all of the lettering removed, we have an issue: the ghosts of the old lettering are quite visible. Note that this is not a stain; rather all of the rest of the fabric has faded from use in the bright sunlight over many years. Look carefully, and you will see that the color of the fabric underneath the "Mets" wordmark is the same as the unfaded inside of the jersey! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/c4d34f83-564c-4ddf-abe3-67f46eb7cc8e/Screen+Shot+2019-03-24+at+10.25.56+PM.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Mets 1973 Jerry Koosman road jersey We need to recreate the 1973 vintage wordmark, so we pulled a scan of a 1971 Mets road jersey from our archives. The top photo shows the exact copying of the design; the one on the bottom is softened and repaired to remove some of the distortion of the scanned art. (Click to enlarge) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/f9dcf2c6-6907-4b81-8546-7cf9aa22dbf7/IMG_9427+%281%29.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Mets 1973 Jerry Koosman road jersey The twill lettering of the old jersey is about as worn as any I have seen. The colors are muted by the complete lack of sheen that can only come from being used daily in the hot sun and washed hundreds of times. To simulate this wear, I will distress the fabric by sandblasting it with baking soda, then dyeing (if necessary) in any one of my home-brewed solutions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/a7c81256-a428-44f5-9d77-07c21fe730be/IMG_9429+%281%29.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Mets 1973 Jerry Koosman road jersey Here, we sandblast the twill inside the blasting cabinet. Baking soda shot at 150 PSI can remove paint from a fender, so imagine what it does to this fabric. The fact that it simply dulls the sheen versus blasting right through it is testament to how strong tackle twill is! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/41434af6-fe4b-4ccf-8d22-e01c7b7685d3/IMG_9433+%281%29.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Mets 1973 Jerry Koosman road jersey After sandblasting, we wash and dry the fabric, then dye it to change the shade slightly (if needed.) Notice how I prepared two different shades of blue -- I will choose the one that more closely matches the original, aged lettering, once these have dried. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/9f905ae5-bee0-4372-8d03-dddd17871241/IMG_5962.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Mets 1973 Jerry Koosman road jersey Using the computer-driven cutter, we cut the letters one color at a time, align by hand and then heat press them together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/095271bc-5be3-4708-b73f-17eee225d419/IMG_9438+%281%29.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Mets 1973 Jerry Koosman road jersey To match the bleached thread that secures the adjacent player numbers, I use new thread that color-matches the original. This bleached-blue thread is from my grandmother's thread box and is probably sixty years old. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/f3f37ab5-91c8-48e6-bae9-6d888ff44e44/IMG_9440.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Mets 1973 Jerry Koosman road jersey Compare the new (the K) with the old (the 36.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/44c438fa-c1c6-4c89-bbfd-92dc143739bf/IMG_9473+%281%29+copy.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Mets 1973 Jerry Koosman road jersey Now, we can apply the lettering. I placed the actual jersey on the light table to make a template, which shows me ghosts of where the original lettering was sewn. This way, there is no guesswork when applying the replacement lettering. (Click to enlarge) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/d4ab9ebf-5b49-44eb-afa5-aae024b11567/IMG_9484+%281%29.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Mets 1973 Jerry Koosman road jersey Here is the old stitching next to the new. I am very pleased with the match of the fabric colors, lack of sheen and the thread / stitching match. The best compliment is that you'd never notice the difference between new and old. Had I used new, shiny fabric and dark thread, the restoration would have stuck out. (Click to enlarge) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/70b9796c-4800-4493-be3a-e1918f667781/IMG_5966+copy.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Mets 1973 Jerry Koosman road jersey Now we want to deal with the noticeable sun-bleaching discoloration. Since this jersey is destined for museum display and will not be worn, there is a method we can use. Here's a museum trick designed to enhance the display. Using ordinary sidewalk chalk, I grind and mix purple, blue, red and yellow chalk dust until I have perfectly matched the color of the bleached jersey fabric. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/4ec7e18f-e75b-4280-a43c-a6889cee47d5/IMG_5963+copy+blended2+copy+copy.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Mets 1973 Jerry Koosman road jersey Using a blush-application brush, we carefully daub the colored chalk only onto the dark area of the fabric. While this is certainly not a permanent repair, it will make the museum display more striking. And truthfully, leaving some evidence of the old shadow is not undesirable; every jersey has a story to tell, and this one's trip to the minors is a part of its history. I put the powder in a jar and sent it to the collector with his completed jersey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/25f73c8f-3b28-4dfe-8826-b3d22af8b151/Screen+Shot+simulated+powdered+2019-04-08+at+8.14.04+AM+copy+copy.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Mets 1973 Jerry Koosman road jersey Here is the finished result... the first photo is the jersey without the blending powder applied, the second simulates what it would have looked like had I done the whole front with the blending, and the third is the unchanged back of the jersey with Koosman's number 36. This jersey is ready for display at Citi Field! https://thedream.shop/gallery/1939-phillies-road-jersey monthly 0.5 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/2ecb1d5f-0235-48cb-a103-10d11da7dabf/IMG_7913+copy.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1939 Phillies road jersey Left: An original, unrestored 1939 Phillies jersey. Right: our finished recreation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/9f13f1ee-0294-47f7-93f0-a964658bce3b/IMG_7788-1.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1939 Phillies road jersey This Wilson heavyweight flannel, purchased on Ebay, has been properly stored since it was made (I am guessing early 1940s). Notice that the ribbon trim -- while the correct colors -- has three color bands (it should have two) and the sleeves has two trim stripes (instead of one.) To begin, all the trim must be carefully removed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/63700c76-2455-41b5-ba38-0a9cf7b337c3/IMG_7790.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1939 Phillies road jersey All of the trim had to come off the jersey, a stitch at time. Then, working slowly and carefully, I snipped the woven edge off the ribbon and un-wove it, leaving perfect two-color, navy and crimson trim. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/b119f798-2092-4ec9-915d-9ea26459de3c/IMG_7796.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1939 Phillies road jersey The incorrect trim (left) and the corrected trim (right.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/dcf24760-914a-46e2-89c4-b207d1ddac5d/Screen+Shot+2018-12-22+at+4.08.34+PM.png Gallery - Recreation: 1939 Phillies road jersey Here is the original Phillies jersey from my archives and the reproduction with the logo superimposed on it. The buttons are not in the correct places. No compromise here! We must relocate two two buttons-- and their buttonholes -- for the reproduction to work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/42a6aa60-60a8-41b6-a414-5ce719f7b584/Screen+Shot+2018-12-21+at+9.52.21+PM.png Gallery - Recreation: 1939 Phillies road jersey Very few clear photos of these jerseys exist. Here, I have superimposed art I drew from one such jersey on top of another jersey photo. You can see that nothing lines up. This is because old jersey designs had to be hand-cut by tailors The red felt was stitched to a solid piece of navy felt, and by hand, using only his eye, the tailor would cut the outline. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/2ea4e91e-d577-4b7f-9497-dd63e3508d0a/Screen+Shot+2018-12-28+at+9.05.03+PM.png Gallery - Recreation: 1939 Phillies road jersey Several superimposed photos I used to ensure the accuracy of the the design. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/e5bc8e03-f306-44e8-9695-5b01dce7c547/Screen+Shot+2018-12-28+at+9.15.54+PM.png Gallery - Recreation: 1939 Phillies road jersey Here is my final cutting pattern, ready to be sent to the computer-driven cutter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/36bf2cfd-411b-4b3b-b441-0ad4dd4cd5ac/IMG_7799.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1939 Phillies road jersey The cutter produces a total of five pieces. Before cutting the felt, I "back" it with a lightweight interfacing that helps stiffen it, and then apply a final layer of plastic film that will "glue" the layers together for the next steps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/2961e416-eda2-4ad8-b02c-0103560eae2d/IMG_7801.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1939 Phillies road jersey I cut the lettering from the back, right through the paper backing of the film. Once the appliques are cut, I peel off the backing paper exposing the heat-sensitive plastic film below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/131e9786-f14b-4c16-9eb7-afdef4efc2f1/IMG_7800.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1939 Phillies road jersey I carefully align the pieces, and will next press them together for eight seconds at 330º F. The backing on the top layer bonds it to the bottom layer to prepare it for stitching. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/fea2f081-2d73-4e3f-87e0-3ec03e5f1cdd/IMG_7810.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1939 Phillies road jersey Next, I edge-sew the layers together. Felt lettering is typically straight stitched, like this. Twill has a woven edge that can unravel, so a zig zag stitch is used with twill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/2c1c2377-5d3a-45a5-828a-2d6e52d162af/IMG_7816.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1939 Phillies road jersey Now, we'll move the two misplaced buttons and buttonholes. I've clearly noted the proper measurements on my drawing, then temporarily placed the front wordmark where it belongs. I've marked the locations for the repositioned buttons using painters' tape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/d53e342a-c89c-4bdc-99b2-7a10ec444118/IMG_7824.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1939 Phillies road jersey I have marked the marked the exact location of the two new buttonholes with soft lead pencil. Compare them to the original buttonhole locations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/497e948a-ef78-4bae-960b-d65aa9614649/IMG_7827.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1939 Phillies road jersey Once the buttonhole outline is sewn, I cut a slot to open it with a small, sharp knife. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/2393b08c-d4e4-4999-85ac-8341b9eb4a82/IMG_7832.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1939 Phillies road jersey The sewing machine has a special foot to sew buttons. The bar in the center is an extra needle inserted as a spacer. If I omitted the needle/spacer when sewing, the button would be sewn so tightly to the shirt that you'd never be able to get the button through its hole! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/81be1037-d549-4e4a-a115-0294b6b50197/IMG_7833.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1939 Phillies road jersey The buttons are now secured in their proper places! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/55726818-d4cd-4fd5-b61c-1d4e6240a7a9/IMG_7839.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1939 Phillies road jersey Next, we must resew the revised trim. I used dozens of pins, adjusting them several times before starting to sew. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/888bafa8-5f68-49bc-9b01-bd0e8519807a/IMG_7872.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1939 Phillies road jersey Properly placed and tacked with adhesive, the team logo is edge-sewn to the jersey with a straight stitch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/e8428d85-4052-4d06-9a89-56f7f9f1417f/IMG_7892.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1939 Phillies road jersey The overlapping edge receives a tight looped embroidery stitch to make it invisible when the jersey is buttoned. This is exactly the way these jerseys were made 80 years ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/63b30afa-f953-4fa5-ae23-196d6f8ca0bd/IMG_7883.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1939 Phillies road jersey It may seem like a small thing, but I hand-sew the original buttonholes closed from the back. It will take a very sharp eye to see that they were ever there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/b36c93bb-350d-4281-9e56-0e6e408274e6/IMG_7934.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1939 Phillies road jersey I sew the Shop's tag on all recreations. It would be too tempting for someone to someday try to pass this off as an original, game-worn jersey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/79dfe8dd-1d26-44ec-bce5-fe12e7316eeb/IMG_7889.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1939 Phillies road jersey The completed jersey with its corresponding centennial patch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/398e37e1-b735-4d5e-8d8b-7034071eb623/IMG_7911+copy.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1939 Phillies road jersey The completed jersey, front and back. https://thedream.shop/gallery/1982-tony-gwynn-pre-rookie-jersey monthly 0.5 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/6e356cbc-58a1-4dcb-a38f-0b9ed5d3f43d/127220410_1479239428948396_2254004695806633093_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: 1982 Tony Gwynn "pre-rookie" jersey Pictured is the completed restoration of Tony Gwynn’s very first Padres jersey. I can hear you now: “No it isn’t -- everyone knows that Gwynn wore #19 during his entire 20-year career with San Diego.” But collector Kyle B. knew otherwise… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/c3f02be8-a598-48ca-beb1-d265cca59ef7/127280285_1479239492281723_5484791671692299358_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: 1982 Tony Gwynn "pre-rookie" jersey Seems that when Gwynn was invited to Spring Training in 1982, he was issued jersey #53. Kyle, the collector, did some research into the 1982 Spring training season and confirmed that Gwynn was there, and had been issued #53. Call this his “pre-rookie" jersey, because when Gwynn was called up to the Padres on July 19, 1982, he was issued #19, which he wore for the next twenty seasons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/3f31a738-ebc1-42b7-b300-d9e1219e4ab7/127222844_1479240255614980_1032677486885440151_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: 1982 Tony Gwynn "pre-rookie" jersey In fact, we have a photo; here is Tony wearing that #53 jersey in Spring Training 1982, clearly visible on his 1983 Topps rookie card. This style of pullover jersey was new for the Padres in 1980. Research shows that no one was issued #53 from 1980-1982. This style jersey was assumedly worn in spring training for the first time in 1981. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/dd4f2e44-4b97-42d7-af30-2c3c3d69c7c4/127125452_1479240912281581_5575000530900562673_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: 1982 Tony Gwynn "pre-rookie" jersey Kyle spotted this jersey on eBay. This is how it looked, as offered. When he saw it, he noticed the tail tag indicated the jersey had been issued originally as #53 -- he had a hunch, and figured if he was wrong, he could easily resell it again. His quick research was promising, so he sent it off to me for confirmation, and then a possible restoration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/34dafc80-931a-4170-b0f8-cbad777bda12/127237112_1479240848948254_2918174500212998741_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: 1982 Tony Gwynn "pre-rookie" jersey The Wilson tagging was correct and it showed evidence of with multiple player name and number changes. The first thing I did was to remove the mis-sized crazy looking “8” on the back, and put the jersey on the light table. On the back, there was evidence of at least two other nameplates. The numbers: a leading “5” and a well-worn, but oddly-shaped “8” of unknown origin that had been sewn haphazardly over the "glue ghost" of an earlier number. Removal of the non-original “8” clearly showed that other number(s) had been sewn in that spot before. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/3855be0c-7348-43b2-b933-6a2075f2b4a2/127909407_1479240958948243_2424696274078156690_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: 1982 Tony Gwynn "pre-rookie" jersey It looked like we had a winner here, and so Kyle asked me to perform an exacting restoration and authentication. I carefully cleaned the glue *only* from the areas that would not be covered by the originally assigned “3” that belonged there. A beginner’s mistake is to get too aggressive cleaning glue marks and stains, because you can end up with an overly clean area of a jersey that sticks out like a sore thumb. Next, we pre-treated it for stains with OxiClean and laundered it, which evened its color and brightened it considerably. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/437348cf-f239-4f10-89ee-252639430771/127231969_1479240892281583_6436279017683686571_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: 1982 Tony Gwynn "pre-rookie" jersey It may seem extreme, but for the most authentically-harmonious appearance, instead of making a new one, I harvested a "3" from another period Padres jersey and stitched it in place exactly over the shadows of the previously removed “8”. The “3” was stitched on using off-color faded brown thread chosen to more closely match the faded thread that attached other original elements to the jersey. (Not to worry -- this other jersey was restored as well, with my identical recreation of its original #3 on back.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/d0094241-1ae0-4104-b859-bc144f8db494/128014346_1479240935614912_3286388713108923026_n.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: 1982 Tony Gwynn "pre-rookie" jersey On the outside left tail is a rectangle of knit fabric with “53 80." The tag decodes to player number 53, 1980. The tag is zig zag stitched to the tail, and a careful examination of the tag and its stitching on the light table allow me to conclude that it is original and unaltered. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/06e1ae44-cfb2-4023-8032-5011443941f8/127179651_1479240965614909_4365456901202607413_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: 1982 Tony Gwynn "pre-rookie" jersey The nameplate was recreated using fabric harvested from another perfectly matching, equally aged and laundry-faded period warp knit jersey. The player letter spacing was replicated using three data points: 1.) Visual evidence of where the name "Gwynn" aligned with the leading edge of the number 5 from the rookie card; 2.) Light table evidence of the size and shape of the smaller of the two original nameplates that had been sewn there. 3.) Photo evidence of the arch and spacing of Gwynn’s nameplate on another jersey from 1983 or 1984. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/c9f4dc39-ec70-4613-8293-d5e0422107e0/127837625_1479241005614905_1367731973840695785_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: 1982 Tony Gwynn "pre-rookie" jersey We documented our work with a detailed letter that should be acceptable by any auction house or serious investor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/f9b9ff99-5444-42e6-a855-fd8c9c3cb05f/128081643_1479240882281584_5831983878086058434_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: 1982 Tony Gwynn "pre-rookie" jersey Here is the final result! https://thedream.shop/gallery/restoration-oakland-as-flannels-and-knits monthly 0.5 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/087a0f1a-9d2e-409b-ae40-401ec370e50c/A%27s+jersey+set-Dobson+Perez+Tenace+smaller.png Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits It was common practice for the A's to send player jerseys down to the minors after their use in the majors was through. Player names were stripped, and expert restoration is desired. Here are the three, with "before and after" photos. Follow along to see the process. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/0416ea1d-fcf3-4a1c-98f5-8fc6df1ed55c/IMG_7516.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits This is a real beauty! Gene Tenace's gold 1971 jersey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/2791a7e3-d752-4ca3-b329-e6201c242516/IMG_7518.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits (back) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/f5cf033d-1793-41f4-a71f-14656e507a37/Screen+Shot+2018-12-26+at+2.27.22+PM.png Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits Clearly the same jersey from this photo match. Look at the distortion of the shape of the lettering, caused by the wearing of catchers' equipment for so many hours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/75a6abc5-63e5-4ad4-9cea-1d5aaf755d53/IMG_7517.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits The correct tag is inside the jersey, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/4585e3fd-0a88-4221-9b14-3449fb4cfd79/Screen+Shot+2018-12-02+at+10.24.25+AM.png Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits Here you can see the "ghosts" of Tenance's original nameplate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/d3c3787a-0fb9-481e-9cb1-8ed80e3b7879/Screen+Shot+2018-12-02+at+10.29.06+AM.png Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits (We've digitally outlined the lettering so you can see it better.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/08303c99-d4c7-44d4-b268-e7cd1e02bfd4/Screen+Shot+2018-12-02+at+10.31.54+AM.png Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/37ef02ad-dffd-4451-8eca-c62856db3c7f/IMG_7756+%281%29.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits We crafted the name using the A's original "pencil thin" font from our archives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/f53ac8ff-b679-47fd-b8f8-f4cbde4111a0/IMG_7757.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits We laid out the name perfectly prior to heat-pressing it on for exact sewing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/cd72468a-7489-438f-8a7e-7a065f2be79c/IMG_7762+%281%29.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits We stitch the jersey after the heat press "locks in" the correct placement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/296d1812-6fac-437a-95de-fe28aa7943c5/IMG_7919.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits Here is the final result of the restoration! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/96938e6d-d5c7-412c-b457-911f1f2d1f2a/IMG_7928.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/2608508c-2bc2-45dc-b303-ab819876f755/IMG_7925+blank.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/a3b30caa-8dea-443c-a016-1f70b16c8e0d/Screen+Shot+2018-12-02+at+11.00.24+PM.png Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits The "ghost" of the name on the back (NOB) is visible on the light table. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/1147a215-e7c9-465a-a2b3-b4ccb71bd057/Screen+Shot+2018-12-02+at+11.00.11+PM.png Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits The ghosts are visible on the light table. Note the distortion on the ends -- I avoid sewing new lettering on crooked like this... it just looks wrong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/b3e7cb09-af29-49c0-bd34-036f46f9c5cd/Screen+Shot+2018-12-02+at+11.00.44+PM.png Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits The NOB crafted to exactly cover the ghosts. But how jarring it would be to have the name be so bright white when the numbers are yellowed with age. What to do? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/19a8427d-657d-4afa-82be-5e04ca98bfc5/IMG_7570.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits Boiling the twill in Lipton tea makes it perfectly match the 40 year old originals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/42fa3908-c953-47ac-a762-324ea4f69775/IMG_7583.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits The thread is also boiled in the tea to make it match. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/5e9738ed-fa3b-40fa-ace9-fba7549be417/56565022204__0A19E4E6-E504-40DB-8399-50ED93F2BCE8.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits This shows various pieces of twill, boiled in different kinds of tea and coffee in an attempt to get the best match. At far right, notice the undyed piece for reference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/f8621bdd-88eb-40df-92fb-abca81ba55d1/IMG_7568.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits You can see the color match, post tea-dyeing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/8561ba7a-55a6-40cb-8323-1d6518cd34eb/IMG_7575.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits Laid out "pre-spaced" to perfectly match the ghost, we cut the NOB on the machine in mirror image so it can be exactly applied. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/893cf422-08db-4df8-a310-5ebd4447221d/IMG_7579.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/c4aba021-0884-41ef-8132-322b26720b68/IMG_7577.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/6cc1a109-aebd-479c-80ec-22e92e0a6fe8/IMG_7784.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits The ghost of the original patch is visible on the light table. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/23c07f4c-d84c-47f5-8200-6a546f4b20b2/IMG_7786.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits So, we sewed a replacement patch directly over the top. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/bc6bcb96-1319-4cc6-b24d-d75961934681/IMG_7926.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits The finished NOB, color matching the original, stained 24. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/a530d9d3-8d44-4e7b-ac95-4447001a44f7/IMG_7927.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits The finished product! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/688fbec6-1c79-4f60-9b8a-eb2e15443c77/IMG_7923.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/a94798b0-1ffb-4ecf-98b0-5a11bf2a4ca1/IMG_7513.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/7ae3e948-3ada-4d9c-8f64-721817008909/IMG_7924.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/1c36b161-b7c0-46e9-9696-0f5a45a8f6cc/IMG_7922.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/878ad038-ad5b-487e-8f58-d1e7fa7c98a6/a%27s+1970-1971+20181201_4247.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/f110b009-9a57-4301-be5f-fa62913b27bb/Screen+Shot+2018-12-02+at+8.40.37+AM.png Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/80fce5e3-2a0c-4678-b1d1-8e44cb8b503a/Screen+Shot+2018-12-02+at+8.40.21+AM.png Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/bff0c1b9-59a2-4e5b-8ebc-e551ac52ed73/Screen+Shot+2018-12-02+at+8.56.00+AM.png Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/67f27260-5867-4314-8546-940363227165/IMG_7761.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/8da68fc5-f8da-459f-838b-ce24496b88c9/IMG_7771.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/0a83e01e-a3e7-4aa6-92ea-e425badd071f/IMG_7515.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Oakland A's flannels and knits https://thedream.shop/gallery/recreation-1982-mets-dave-kingman-alternate-jersey monthly 0.5 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/f204c7df-c72c-478f-9357-f213eaf3783e/IMG_8675+copy.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1982 Mets Dave Kingman Alternate Jersey As it arrived at my shop. There were non-standard, Varsity-style variant numbers adorn both the back and front, and there was evidence of a nameplate having been rudely removed from the back. All lettering is dark orange outlined with gray, not white (a hallmark of Mets alternate road jerseys of the era.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/cbcc8b6c-d0e8-4dfa-afa8-89fdae58c606/Screen+Shot+2019-04-11+at+11.11.01+PM.png Gallery - Recreation: 1982 Mets Dave Kingman Alternate Jersey Referring to my MLB Guide to Game Worn Jerseys, we see that the Mets' jerseys of 1982 were made by Rawlings, and can see how the name and numbers are supposed to look. They are the Mets-standard athletic block font. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/c6d5e8d6-ec54-49e5-bdc4-f6cb88ba997b/Screen+Shot+2019-02-17+at+11.38.21+AM.png Gallery - Recreation: 1982 Mets Dave Kingman Alternate Jersey The Dream Shop *always* begins with a proof. The photo on top is a computer-generated mockup featuring Paul's jersey with the exact lettering superimposed on top. This step is vitally important to ensuring that the end result is exactly as my clients envision. The proof becomes my cutting and placement pattern -- the end result will be exactly what you see here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/228ae3d2-30cf-4c0f-b44e-3cd3d2f8681e/IMG_8680.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1982 Mets Dave Kingman Alternate Jersey The numbers have been inconveniently sewn through the fabric with both layers. This makes them twice as hard to remove. The old thread was as tough as fishing line after so many exposures to harsh detergents https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/00a85848-a065-4a35-a883-f8f2b4a0f300/IMG_8992.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1982 Mets Dave Kingman Alternate Jersey Finding fabric to make a matching blue nameplate was not easy. This required a trip to the Goodwill store, and a donor Adidas polo shirt gave its life to become the nameplate. All the edges of the nameplate are professionally surged as the team would have done it, and all fabric colors match the front Mets' script as closely as possible. I have four shades of orange and three of gray. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/c3575ba7-4a60-4f11-8483-fe5acc983a89/IMG_8990+copy.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1982 Mets Dave Kingman Alternate Jersey The final result! I sew the Dream Shop tags inside every jersey I do, and when we are making alterations to a team-issued jersey, I take multiple additional steps to mark and record the process to protect both the collector and myself from any suspicion of fraud. https://thedream.shop/gallery/stan-musial-1942-rookie-jersey monthly 0.5 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/5de2980f-60d3-411b-a6d1-d7193fd723c7/152391199_1537315676474104_5542478204887100965_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: Stan Musial 1942 rookie jersey The finished product. Let's see how we got here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/c94f1bc0-fe4d-4fa7-ac85-2f766c22bd63/151269171_1537315573140781_6046488714928726329_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: Stan Musial 1942 rookie jersey “I have a Stan Musial Cardinals uniform here for you to look at," said the voice at the other end of the phone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/77c2f6f3-0637-463a-9983-87e6b2b43544/152039910_1537315683140770_8559075157382412683_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: Stan Musial 1942 rookie jersey The voice belonged to Dr. Wolff Kirsch, a 90-year old noted neurosurgeon and well-published medical researcher. “My family was given this uniform by a colleague who had had it in their family for years. It had been a gift to his father from a minor league player who once wore it during his career in the Cardinals system.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/ce997318-deaa-4ede-8c92-84045ae99eb5/152362297_1537315939807411_6344455432565043193_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: Stan Musial 1942 rookie jersey When I took the jersey out of its bag, I was immediately hopeful. The heavy wool gray-flannel uniform was in near-pristine condition, with Musial’s name chain stitched into its tail and the year 1942. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/82d8e484-ff6f-4166-91f3-46aaf8140330/151215280_1537315956474076_6847132344323532908_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: Stan Musial 1942 rookie jersey Oddly this jersey still wore the 1942-only “HEALTH” patch on its sleeve, a patch worn the first season after the start of the war by most MLB teams designed to remind Americans to do their best to be healthy as their part in supporting the war effort. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/9ff1a176-530d-4fd1-9be9-28ddcd1347d8/151480896_1537315806474091_5093469831481510300_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: Stan Musial 1942 rookie jersey Back in 1942, game worn jerseys were simply not collectable like they are today. While sample jerseys were occasionally made to demonstrate a maker’s abilities to potential clients, it would have been highly unlikely that Rawlings would have made a “sample” Musial jersey. No -- this was the real deal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/c1b13ee6-83e9-4b72-8ab3-edeaaaa788b7/151581069_1537315983140740_1746774114448195768_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: Stan Musial 1942 rookie jersey Closely examining the back of the jersey, I noted a couple of things: the mismatched #36 on the back was a signature minor-league modification, and the two back numerals were of different sizes. I put the jersey on the light table, and it could see a hint that a single number had perhaps once been centered on the back. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/5c42739c-d416-4dab-b876-15be2fbd5ba0/151832874_1537315656474106_3656639057214521863_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: Stan Musial 1942 rookie jersey The pants were included too, and while they were the same style, their 38-inch waist told us that they would not have been Musial’s pants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/06dbec3d-b130-4df8-960f-34b37f10db90/151299490_1537316026474069_830269598993239073_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: Stan Musial 1942 rookie jersey From the back side, notice the puckering of the flannel fabric under the felt numbers. This shows that the numbers and the jersey fabric had shrunk at different rates after many hot water washings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/313b5a40-5518-4e10-8fde-c6a7a141bf71/152041974_1537315763140762_475197121344609830_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: Stan Musial 1942 rookie jersey I received Dr. Kirsch’s permission to remove the back numbers so I could examine it more thoroughly. I did so, one careful stitch at a time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/953d9bca-be90-48aa-be2e-48a88dd07e5c/152375252_1537315833140755_6817794195550728216_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: Stan Musial 1942 rookie jersey Invisible to the naked eye, I used the light table to coax out evidence of a slightly darkened area in the center of the back. It was indeed a 6! But as I compared the fuzzy size and shape, as well as the placement of the darker area, I saw that it did not match the shape of the “6” that had just been on the jersey now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/f7b7ca5a-d1ed-479e-9638-7cfec0690e2d/Screen+Shot+2021-03-09+at+10.21.54+AM.png Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: Stan Musial 1942 rookie jersey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/1cf73a52-7198-49f1-a059-cfcdcf57cfce/151623174_1537315539807451_3635602111805336467_n.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: Stan Musial 1942 rookie jersey I turned to Getty Images and found this photo of Musial himself. I could see that the details of the number he wore matched the details of the shadow, but NOT of the replacement “6” that was in the minor league number! Confirming the pattern for the Rawlings 1942 number set, I found see that we had a match, that the proper 6 had been sewn on the center of this jersey’s back. It's possible that I had this very jersey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/dcc918ea-39e7-4c54-a00e-466c69ccb149/150954364_1537316053140733_7201330767116142079_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: Stan Musial 1942 rookie jersey Dr. Kirsch was delighted with this news, and asked me if I would restore the number to the back. Even though the “6” we took off the shirt was not a perfect match to the MLB Cardinals’ 1942 font, it was antique and original to the Cards’ organization. I suggested using the existing “6” in lieu of making a new one, and he agreed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/57b8b518-b58b-40d9-b7f7-ae66b9560028/151090250_1537315829807422_2641180787179334706_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: Stan Musial 1942 rookie jersey I have learned that many of these antique jerseys are terrifically dirty. I suggested hand-washing the jersey to even the tone and brighten it. When it had dried, it was much brighter all over! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/1e966ef1-1a29-4ab5-9793-e196be8eda26/151780369_1537315996474072_8083701790717056515_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: Stan Musial 1942 rookie jersey All that remained was to stitch the number in its proper place. We employed a straight stitch, as that was how felt numbers were once sewn. The zig-zag sewing machine wasn’t even invented at the time that this garment was made! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/eed970f6-0c4f-4bf3-a4d3-aead90cf1855/Stan+Musial_1.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: Stan Musial 1942 rookie jersey Completed, this uniform went back to its owner, destined for display in a museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/b63a1104-6a6a-44ed-a0ad-4d1b50e35d50/152016011_1537315589807446_8406544024911681926_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: Stan Musial 1942 rookie jersey (LINK) Documenting the restoration and writing a complete letter or authenticity for this treasure was both a requirement and an honor for me. I am honored to be trusted by collectors to do this type of work. Click on the image above to read the entire letter. https://thedream.shop/gallery/restoration-brewers-1973-knit monthly 0.5 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/161231c9-1da4-4e9f-88b7-4a46ffcdae24/Brewers+Guy+Hankel+slides-1.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Brewers 1973 Knit Our starting point: The original "52" had been changed to "56", either for use in the minors or for Spring Training. This 1973 jersey is actually in better shape than many I've seen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/b08fe206-5f83-49de-ae12-60f919b1b9c2/Brewers+Guy+Hankel+restoration20180904_3487.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Brewers 1973 Knit The team tagging shows that this was originally #52 in 1973. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/ba33f938-9974-4ed5-85c2-fca808a87ad1/Brewers+Guy+Hankel+restoration20180904_3488.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Brewers 1973 Knit The 6 on the front was likely used form another repurposed MLB jersey. It is crooked and sloppy... but it was good enough for Spring Training or the minor leagues! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/7b53f2bf-bd7a-4ccf-9aba-b10195164076/Brewers+Guy+Hankel+restoration20180904_3476.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Brewers 1973 Knit From the back, we can see that they didn't even bother to completely stitch the number on, leaving the center unattached. We can also see a hole where the "2" was removed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/02f4edd0-933b-42d8-bbd1-85f40968ebaa/Brewers+Guy+Hankel+restoration20180904_3475.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Brewers 1973 Knit A look at how the replacement back number was sewn on -- with a straight stitch instead of a zig zag -- allowing all the edges to fray. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/4c75cfda-5ebb-499e-9a31-f68d942bb4fd/Brewers+Guy+Hankel+restoration20180904_3479.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Brewers 1973 Knit When removed, the back number left glue and dirt stains showing the original number "2" outline. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/32542222-a2d3-4aae-bfcf-e0956747d2ca/Brewers+Guy+Hankel+restoration20180904_3481.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Brewers 1973 Knit ..the front number removed. These dirty glue marks will come out with a high-pressure blast from the dry cleaning gun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/f926ecb6-28a5-4cdd-95f1-a8bdd898faf2/Slide1.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Brewers 1973 Knit Here's where our restoration diverges from the prior ones: the customer wanted the new numbers to match the old, in terms of patina. Laid next to each is a sample of the two new fabric layers, sewn with several colors of thread from gray, light blue and lavender spools. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/2336a4b9-4510-4563-ab3e-9b48371283d7/Brewers+Guy+Hankel+restoration20180906_3468.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Brewers 1973 Knit Here, the old "5" next to the replacement "2" sewn with the intentionally off-color thread to mimic years of washing. The yellow fabric is slightly brighter than the old, due partly to its shininess and the fact that it hasn't been washed 300 times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/52e874ca-7b83-43fa-b792-e3e928c88860/Slide2.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Brewers 1973 Knit Here are close-ups of the back numbers. The finished stitching shows our success -- the original "5" is at left; the new "2" is on the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/5ad8595c-786f-4c2e-bb89-062353c8fc8a/Slide3.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Brewers 1973 Knit The final job! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/0547ef05-6c55-41e7-ad5f-fed489747889/Brewers+Guy+Hankel+slides.jpg Gallery - Restoration: Brewers 1973 Knit Before (top) and after (bottom.) We matched the colors, sizes and placement as best we could, though the new yellow is slightly more reflective (and therefore looks lighter in the photos) than the old, weathered twill. https://thedream.shop/gallery/1979-dock-ellis-texas-rangers-authentication-restoration monthly 0.5 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/b596fea5-ffdf-423d-9f0c-5eca6cdbd088/132786130_1498626923676313_3670140681282183869_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: 1979 Dock Ellis Texas Rangers Jersey Collector Guy H. always challenges me with restorations that are outside the norm. Here, he sent me this 1979 Rangers jersey that lacked a name on back and had non-standard back numbers. He asked me to try to find out what it was. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/41c7fdf9-78cc-4b88-ae73-667386255662/132001478_1498627077009631_6087594169924558369_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: 1979 Dock Ellis Texas Rangers Jersey Pitcher Dock Ellis wore #17 for the Rangers at the start of the 1979 season, but he was traded to the Mets in early June. In July, pitcher Bob Babcock was assigned #17, and given Ellis’ old jersey with his name newly stitched to the back. Before the season ended, Babcock had his number changed to 20. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/91df5d15-1233-486a-a874-cd9ba54d6b5a/132859336_1498626950342977_7964406899305222756_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: 1979 Dock Ellis Texas Rangers Jersey When put on the light table, I could clearly see the outlines of Babcock’s name there. But evidence of either the #17 or Ellis’ name were not readily apparent. This photo highlights Babcock’s name on back. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/4ca0bee4-797c-4778-8bd9-590abce7c8f8/131937724_1498626867009652_7364070182910746781_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: 1979 Dock Ellis Texas Rangers Jersey Looking very closely, I could see that there had indeed been another name underneath the shadow of Babcock. The first letter did not look like an “E” in Ellis and it was too far to the left to have the name “ELLIS centered on back. Examining the Rangers’ roster I saw that there was another Ellis on the team, #9, cacher John Ellis, and apparently his jersey said simply “Ellis”, while Dock Ellis’ jersey said “D. Ellis”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/528a381b-2691-4f76-9607-cf4116ab9a11/132199923_1498627020342970_4939602342496178646_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: 1979 Dock Ellis Texas Rangers Jersey Proof: this photo from the prior season shows Ellis pitching and we can see that he had the first letter of his surname on his jersey! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/de35f5b9-17d6-4ef5-aa20-b3f8768b7769/132009316_1498626857009653_1701566577603604539_n.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: 1979 Dock Ellis Texas Rangers Jersey I have recreated the Rangers’ fonts from the late 70s using many game-worn jerseys as my guides. Notice that the team used different fonts for home vs. road uniforms. Different makers sewed the home and road jerseys in each year, and this being the 1970s there were no computer-generated patterns to share, only drawings on paper. Therefore, each maker used its own fonts. And nobody seemed to care back then. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/31ef2c2c-a8c3-41c4-a727-a16e3dda1bff/132359198_1498627097009629_7403353553372036191_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: 1979 Dock Ellis Texas Rangers Jersey But I was stumped. I used my scanned image of the back of the jersey and tried to make “D. Ellis” fit in the standard font, the one used for the long name “BABCOCK” covering the scant shadows I could see of the name that had been there before. And try as I might, I could not make it fit. I kept going back and forth looking at the spacing of Ellis’ name on the back of his prior year jersey and it stumped me. It just would not align with the shadows that were not part of the Babcock name. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/137377ae-8060-4fd5-97c7-985eadedce2d/131978151_1498626887009650_6832713461572848109_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: 1979 Dock Ellis Texas Rangers Jersey And then it occurred to me—- the team may have arbitrarily used the condensed font for Dock Ellis’s name in 1979. On a guess, I reset his name using the Rangers’ alternate, slightly narrower font that was generally reserved for longer names— and voila! It matched. Now, look at the bottom image: when name/numbers are removed, the corners and points of letters -- where stitching is the most dense -- often leaves tiny holes in the shirt that are visible only on the light table. The tiny red circles show these almost invisible and seemingly random small holes. (Click to enlarge) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/8c10a5d4-75b8-402f-a8c8-46b783d47e63/132008961_1498627003676305_2776051073620418689_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: 1979 Dock Ellis Texas Rangers Jersey Next we turned to the player numbers. Notice that the “0” in the 20 does not match the team pattern for road jerseys. It’s likely they used numbers taken off another uniform. Once the old numbers were removed, the ghosts of the prior “17” became more visible. Using the three-color pattern for the team’s road numbers proved a perfect overlay match. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/647101b1-5047-4df6-bfc0-889536e8e878/132336763_1498626830342989_7522487549477877863_o.png Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: 1979 Dock Ellis Texas Rangers Jersey I prepared this proof for Guy to approve, showing the style and placement of the new lettering. The actual jersey of the *other* Ellis, catcher John Ellis, is shown here. It also uses the condensed font! (Click to enlarge) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/1c64e293-d6ab-4c44-804c-3523b31bdec0/132307845_1498627133676292_4935792515342927692_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: 1979 Dock Ellis Texas Rangers Jersey I cut new lettering and aged it using my usual techniques, including boiling them in Lipton tea to discolor and slightly pucker them. I sewed them on with thread a slight shade lighter to simulate the bleaching that was apparent on the front lettering, allowing for a harmonious match. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/ec6fd9a8-1560-462d-bf0f-94f4a099dbc9/131943887_1498626900342982_1852567782437519105_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: 1979 Dock Ellis Texas Rangers Jersey Guy asked me to do a full write up on the restoration and to authenticate the jersey. I can’t stress enough how important this step is in cementing the collector value of a jersey. An authenticator may easily fail the jersey noting that it has been altered, unable to see the evidence that it had actually been restored to original. (Click to enlarge) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/6acd94ed-dd2c-4885-94b5-7e84f693f9dd/132480316_1498626963676309_8608373114764633470_o.jpg Gallery - Authentication/Restoration: 1979 Dock Ellis Texas Rangers Jersey Here is the final result! A beautiful example of an uncommon style in good condition for a storied player. (Click to enlarge) https://thedream.shop/gallery/recreation-1976-braves-hank-aaron monthly 0.5 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/9c6ce2c2-311b-4c3b-bb1b-9b3089a63f74/hank-1.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1976 Brave's Hank Aaron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/1e0753a1-2bb0-4e98-a9bb-53c09dbf8943/hank-2.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1976 Brave's Hank Aaron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/ff9f7c33-073c-46ff-a67a-5cefc937c984/hank-3.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1976 Brave's Hank Aaron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/f95f0706-d29a-404b-ab8a-ab17f20438d5/hank-4.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1976 Brave's Hank Aaron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/efdb11eb-64de-487e-a959-2920ea45b6a3/hank-5.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1976 Brave's Hank Aaron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/f93e780e-37cb-4e95-93ef-45f045ea6644/hank-6.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1976 Brave's Hank Aaron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/d017949e-f04a-4702-a33b-bd394c017a4f/hank-7.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1976 Brave's Hank Aaron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/2d026a4b-4646-4f43-91d4-b3c91a56ce08/hank-8.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1976 Brave's Hank Aaron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/0f66b513-2c13-46c9-a5d6-cfb4ed111b5c/hank-9.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1976 Brave's Hank Aaron https://thedream.shop/gallery/restoration-1927-mystery-jerseys monthly 0.5 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/35be7f76-c3d1-4ada-8d13-db7a793da48c/1927Yanks-1.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1927 Mystery Jerseys A century ago, all the gear required to outfit a baseball team was expensive and hard to acquire. Bases, bats, balls, catcher’s equipment, uniforms— all had to be sourced and purchased at great expense and without the aid of the tools that we take for granted today: the internet, credit cards, or even long distance telephone. Minor League or town club-teams considered themselves very lucky if they were able to work out a deal with another, more prestigious team to somehow acquire their cast-offs and hand me downs, where everything would be pressed into service for another year or more, getting every last bit of utility out of the discarded goods. So was the case with these two uniform jerseys, plain drab-gray heavy wool affairs. One had a tiny stand-up sun collar, the other did not. While I can’t find any record of the establishment, Keefer’s Store was surely a club team, sponsored by a local merchant, playing other such teams that dotted the countryside of America in the early part of the 20th century. Playing ball was what young men did for entertainment, in those days before television, shopping malls or even talking movies. Every town had at least one team, often employers had company teams. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/ea07ca7b-2581-4585-a78c-ab2eb49e9e17/1927Yanks-2.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1927 Mystery Jerseys The front lettering here is chain stitched onto pieces of white linen, and then the linen was cut into the letters to spell the words, and they were straight stitched onto the jersey with white cotton thread. No player numbers were on the back; that was an innovation that would not take hold in the pros until the early 1930s, spearheaded by the 1929 Yankees (“Buy your scorecard here! You can’t tell the players without a scorecard, folks”) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/b68066fd-3422-4996-82ee-e5afa2f1fb17/1927Yanks-3.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1927 Mystery Jerseys One has a small embroidery on the front tail that says 44. Not a year designation, No— this style of jersey was no longer used in 1944, these are far older. 44 must designate the size, measuring it confirms this idea as correct. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/e8e002c7-c2de-49fd-8c2e-5f14c18556df/1927Yanks-4.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1927 Mystery Jerseys Spalding-made, It is clear that both of these jerseys had seen a lot of use, the material was worn thin in spots and several repairs were evident, as well as a few holes. But wait— there are names elegantly chain-stitched by hand in the collar: “Collins” and “Paschall”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/c10f2e56-19e2-4cf4-9d62-e8265248ecdc/1927Yanks-5.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1927 Mystery Jerseys A search of MLB rosters pre 1930 finds that players with these last names were indeed part of the same team— the 1927-1928 New York Yankees! Pat Collins was a catcher and Ben Paschall was an outfielder ! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/2bba2a38-3504-420d-b113-3eed33b78323/1927Yanks-6.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1927 Mystery Jerseys With the owner’s permission we carefully removed the front KEEFERS STORE lettering one tiny stitch at a time to lift it away from the jersey. And when we did, look what we found… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/decdbbf2-b055-4e8f-8066-5ed02adf3aa5/1927Yanks-7.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1927 Mystery Jerseys Invisible to the naked eye, but immediately apparent when laid on the light table was the arched word “YANKEES”, its individual letter ghosts had ben directly beneath KEEFERS which was the same number of letters. These ghosts are visible not, as you might think, because of fabric dye-staining, but because the wool jersey is marginally thicker in those spots…. Covered by the original lettering during dozens of washings, it was protected from scrubbing and agitation, and therefore remained ever-so-slightly thicker than the surrounding fabric. The thicker fabric, while not noticeable to the eye, shows up as darker spots on the light table because less light can pass through it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/be9904e6-741c-4114-878f-b5b3ee20cbcd/1927Yanks-8.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1927 Mystery Jerseys The 1927 Yankees are among the most famous and feared teams in the entire history of our sport… nicknamed the “Murderers Row”, it is widely considered to be the greatest baseball team in MLB history. They finished the season with a record of 110-44, and swept the Pittsburgh Pirates to win the World Series. Their winning percentage of .721 still stands as the highest ever. The roster included nine future Hall of Famers: Pitchers Herb Pennock and Waite Hoyt, Infielders Lou Gehrig and Tony Lazzeri, outfielders Babe Ruth and Earle Combs, Manager Miller Huggins, Team President Ed Barrow and Owner Colonel Jacob Ruppert. Let that soak in for a moment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/8cd2dc18-ac41-45d5-9d29-e21b6505f2f0/1927Yanks-9.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1927 Mystery Jerseys Because of their fame, their star players like Ruth and Gherig, and their home in a large city, there are a larger number of photos of this team than perhaps any other of that era. I was able to find a glass-negative photo of Babe Ruth from 1927 that was so clear I could almost see the stitching on his suit. That would come in handy restoring these. By the way, in their history, only in 1927-1930 did the team wear road jerseys with "Yankees" on front, and 1927-1928 were the final two years with no numbers used on back. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/10602756-bfba-4e7c-b242-98a042c8385f/1927Yanks-10.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1927 Mystery Jerseys Today, lettering is cut with computer driven lasers. Then, it was cut with a pair of sharp scissors along dusted chalk lines. Our goal in reproduction is to copy the rustic originals in all their imperfection, stitching to cover the old ghosts exactly. We are going to focus on the restoration of one of these alone, to keep our story easier to follow, though the process was the same for both. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/4ee9cfde-05da-4c99-a1a8-cffb6819425f/1927Yanks-11.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1927 Mystery Jerseys After the lettering was removed and the jerseys’ lineage determined, we had an important choice to make. They were very musty-smelling and dirty, dirty from being stored for many decades, but also dirty from being washed in shared water hundreds of times with other muddy uniforms. Unless it is “historic dirt” that came from a slide into home to win the World Series, dirt is not a friend to fabric. It contains mold and bacteria and acids that eat the fibers of the cloth, causing it to fail. And while the very thought of washing such a relic might take one’s breath away with disbelief, I do it all the time. So long as the fabric is stable and not falling apart from decay, hand washing in Woolite is the answer. Here, I gently agitate the jersey in a bucket of warm water with Woolite. No washing machine is used, and nothing rough. Just up and down and round and round… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/58da9948-e563-4880-94a0-e1f2c3baf488/1927Yanks-12.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1927 Mystery Jerseys Here is a cupful of the dirty wash water. The water in the bucket was so brown that you could not see through it to the bottom. We must rinse it until the water runs clear, which sometimes takes five buckets of clean water. It’s obvious we made the right choice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/aec30a8e-2b2f-41cd-9c7f-51ed4dda1eec/1927Yanks-13.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1927 Mystery Jerseys Do you believe in ghosts? Here is where it gets really creepy… when soaking wet, the ghostly image of the original front team crest from almost 100 years ago returns to view, appearing as glowing brighter than the surrounding fabric. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/e8df0c07-3f1f-4775-b298-349f202703e4/1927Yanks-14.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1927 Mystery Jerseys After blotting with towels and lying it flat to dry, the ghostly image fades again into silent invisibility. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/55e0b14f-e6d9-4ac2-a6d0-83f0eb37412d/1927Yanks-15.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1927 Mystery Jerseys To make exact patterns of the original lettering, I have a specific process I follow. First I put the garment on the light table, and lay a translucent ruler on top of it. Then using my camera I photograph the area at different degrees of exposure, knowing one of them will show the ghosts the most clearly when enhanced in Photoshop. Next I lay the jersey on the flatbed scanner and scan an image at 100%. The scanned image does not show the ghost lettering; it can’t be seen without light behind it, but it does give me an exact 100% reference image of the fabric. Next, in Adobe Illustrator (a vector graphics program) I re-size the light table camera shot to exactly 100% or original (that’s why photographing the image with a ruler in the photo is necessary! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/44fb2795-30fd-4b40-80c0-05c8550808b7/1927Yanks-16.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1927 Mystery Jerseys Next I precisely overlay the two images, making the top one semi-transparent The result is a perfect, 100% of original size image of the lettering ghosts. But we are not done yet. Finally, I overlay the auction photo of Babe Ruth’s jersey, also blown up to be sized to 100% of original. The result is a perfect set of stencils to re-create the original 1927 word mark. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/cee95f94-bcdc-41f2-9e61-b875d687f507/1927Yanks-17.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1927 Mystery Jerseys I draw each letter in Adobe Illustrator. The result is a set of vector patterns that I can send to the laser cutter. But first we have to prepare the felt lettering fabric. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/5ce04ba0-cd4f-4412-a413-d4c13f793ea8/1927Yanks-18.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1927 Mystery Jerseys https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/cbe49c9c-8eb6-4d8c-b920-5e48e96fad73/1927Yanks-19.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1927 Mystery Jerseys There is ample auction history for the sale of multiple 1927-28 Yankees jerseys. Documented is the story that collector Barry Halper purchased a trunkful of these uniforms from the Yankees equipment manager. The Ruth and Gehrig examples set new auction records every time they are resold, for millions of dollars each. Assumedly unrestored, these examples show felt lettering that started off as Navy Blue, now bleached to a bluish-purple by detergents, age and the sun. So, while I could just cut new Navy Blue felt lettering, that would look as silly as putting a shiny new fender on a car with dulled 90 year old paint… it would just look wrong. So the felt fabric needs to be aged to make it match the jersey it will be sewn on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/55bc3d7c-1ac6-496e-800e-4d848fecaa9b/1927Yanks-20.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1927 Mystery Jerseys The felt fabric needs to be aged to make it match the jersey it will be sewn on. Bleach is too strong; using it makes felt fall apart! The answer is a strong solution of Carbonna, an old time washday product from the 1930s used to remove stains from womens' nylon dresses, it is still available on Amazon today. (one of my secrets). A packet of the crystals and almost-boiling water took just enough of the dye out of the felt to make it look suitably old without destroying the structural integrity of the fabric. The wash water looked as dark as grape juice. Pressed flat to dry, the felt had shrunk a lot, but that’s OK, because now that it has shrunk we are going to cut it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/81e8c6ac-9363-44af-9907-84d222b81f7e/1927Yanks-21.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1927 Mystery Jerseys Here is how the felt came out (right , top) . The computer allows me to scan the color and compare it to period examples, and we are close without making it totally bleached out like some of the aged examples. It satisfies its owner. Before cutting the letters, I fuse a heat-applied micro-thin layer of plastic film to the back of the fabric… thinner than Saran Wrap, it holds things nicely together in cutting and stitching, while remaining completely invisible on the finished product. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/50d584d0-d22d-4d36-81ce-3832332da4f2/1927Yanks-22.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1927 Mystery Jerseys The laser cutter makes quick work of the felt, precisely cutting the vector-images into perfect matching lettering, though it smells like burning hair— because that’s precisely what wool felt is (sheep hair!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/f6ed6a05-99a7-4a26-b8c9-dfbad4359246/1927Yanks-23.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1927 Mystery Jerseys Now, with the jersey back on the light table, I position the letters precisely over the ghosts of a century ago, and tack them down with a light adhesive. Using a straight stitch and period-cotton thread bleached purple (the thread color is called “eggplant”) the letters are edge sewed to the jersey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/e968bdcb-c0f8-4e96-9a0e-c734282a4dc1/1927Yanks-24.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1927 Mystery Jerseys Here is the final result; both jerseys restored. I am pleased with the results, and so is the owner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/eb9bdfc3-4af0-4199-a0d9-a6498de7ded0/1927Yanks-25.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1927 Mystery Jerseys https://thedream.shop/gallery/1954-mystery-jerseys monthly 0.5 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/3f9b05e0-1b4f-4996-9504-3886cf9a2ab4/philley-1.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1954 Mystery Jerseys Here’s a close-up of how it looked when I received it. The Cardinals crest on the front of the shirt is clearly not major league issue, but it is not something you’d find at the beer league either. This certainly looks like a minor league conversion at first glance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/e6c00ddd-5d18-484c-9bdf-c2d1de735e1a/philley-2.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1954 Mystery Jerseys But what of the name in the collar? Dave Philley was a member of the AL Champion Cleveland Indians, and had just completed a fine season for the tribe. A search of my archives confirmed that the 1954 embroidery on the tail and the style of name in the collar matched the 1954 Indians. But the front Cardinals cover-up was so massive that it was hard to see anything beneath it. We decided to remove it to see what secrets lay beneath. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/7b2aa65d-a8d6-49c7-9bd4-a768d4f2e0c4/philley-3.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1954 Mystery Jerseys I removed the appliqué on the front one stitch at a time. It was clear that this was no hack job, the Cardinals crest on the front had been hand chain stitched in excruciating detail onto a piece of satin, its edge had been tightly bound with a surging stitch, and then the entire appliqué had been stitched to the front of the jersey. What in the world was this? We are well aware that major league teams sent their uniforms lock stock and barrel to the minor leagues when their utility there was through. But, clearly the Indians did not have any farm teams named the Cardinals using the Cardinals logo! I reason that because minor league teams change ownership all the time that the secret could be found if we located an Indians farm team that had been sold to the Cardinals in one of the seasons after 1954 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/21ef4cb9-d283-4e83-8ca1-a48da239fb65/philley-4.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1954 Mystery Jerseys Pulling charts of all of the Indians farm teams and comparing them to the Cardinals farm teams from 1955 through 1960 revealed the answer. Research shows that the Keokuk, Iowa Minor league Level B team had been named the Kernels (Indians affiliate 1954-1957) and was then sold to the St. Louis Cardinals organization and became the Keokuk Cardinals in 1958. Newspaper photos show the 1958 Keokuk Cardinals wearing a uniform with the identical patch on the front as was on our example. Finally, the jersey was purchased by its current owner by a collector in Cedar Rapids, fifty miles from Keokuk. Whether this jersey went directly from the MLB Indians of 1954 directly to the Keokuk Indians after that season or if it took a detour to another Indians farm club first, it appears it was still being used at least four years later in the minors after its full season of MLB use in 1954! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/036ee4eb-a865-4900-9a9b-ca05b7bff044/philley-5.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1954 Mystery Jerseys More searching in the photo archives uncovered a picture of Dave Philly standing in the Indians dugout in 1954 with his back visible. I wonder if this is the same jersey he was wearing then? Considering the players were issued only two sets of home and away jerseys in those days, there’s a 50-50 chance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/dd0cfe09-abfd-479e-9ef3-48ab1b75e060/philley-6.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1954 Mystery Jerseys The next step was to uncover the original front word mark. Unlike today when everything is generated by computers and laser cutters, back then the work was done using a paper pattern, talcum powder and a sharp pair of scissors. Both layers of the crest were cut by hand. The light table showed some clues, but the black light really opened our eyes. In the first picture you can see the black light image of the front of the jersey. The Cardinals' outlines are very apparent but if you look more deeply you can see the Indian script lurking behind. On the picture to the right I have enhanced the image, turned it into a negative, and made it black-and-white and we can begin to see all of the outlines of the Indians crest that had been gone from it now for almost 70 years. How does the black light work? It shows light frequencies that are invisible to our eyes. The shirt’s exposure to the sun, laundry detergents, transfer of fabric dye, and other magical factors left these ghost images of things that had been stitched to this shirt for just a short time, some 70 years ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/137bbedf-65a2-486e-a992-331a8c557236/philley-7.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1954 Mystery Jerseys Now it was time to get to work. In this grouping of three pictures I was able to take stock artwork I had created some years ago to restore another Indians jersey and lay it on top of this jersey. Not surprisingly it did not exactly match. This happens because of the reason I mentioned before, everything had been done by hand and who knows the same paper patterns were used in all cases, likely not. Secondly fabrics shrink over time, sometimes significantly. I was able to tweak the pattern to match the ghosts exactly. If you look closely at the bottom photo, see all of the red circles that I’ve made that highlight small holes at the point of intersection of the old logo on the shirt. The darker rectangles are fabric patches that were applied by the team to cover holes made in the shirt from the removal of the original Indians crest. Those holes were created when fabric was weakened by removing the old emblem decades ago. The new logo will be stitched directly over the old ghosts making it invisible. That’s why it is so important to document any restoration like this. The better the restoration the harder it is to see what had once been there so long ago! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/40d6345f-8409-4bff-83dd-41a6e0572f1a/philley-8.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1954 Mystery Jerseys At my shop, every project has a complete work order constructed for it. That way I know exactly what I’m doing as it goes through all the processes. You can see my proof at the left, with many pictures of Indians jerseys below which helped me see all of the tiny details in the curves on the script. At right you can see my actual vector cutting patterns which were sent to the laser cutter. Each color of felt is cut separately and then adhered together and straight stitched just the way it was in 1954 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/66dab9b4-82e4-4444-9027-ec3cad60a111/philley-9.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1954 Mystery Jerseys In a step that might seem frightening to the uninitiated, this jersey needed to be washed. Removing the Cardinals crest from the front had left a large cleaner area underneath where the fabric had been spared a season or more of ground in dirt. The Dream Shop stainless steel utility sink has seen it share of royalty. Warm water, Woolite and a gentle hand agitation pulled massive amounts of dirt out of this old fabric. You can see the dirty color of the water in the measuring cup at the right. The result is a jersey that is much brighter than it came in the door. And clean fabric is happy fabric; it’s just not a good idea to leave old jerseys full of dirt, which includes mold spores and fungus which can eat away at the fabric. Besides making the jersey look better, this step will make it last longer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/134ced3b-1c9f-492a-b718-2b3b31c5829e/philley-10.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1954 Mystery Jerseys Now that the felt has been cut and the two layers stitched together, I overlaid the belt onto the jersey and was pleased to see that all of the ghosts and tiny holes that I had highlighted were perfectly matched by the new Indians crest that would soon again cover them. (Note- for the curious, the laser crosshairs are on our setup table. I use lasers to make sure everything is applied straight and true.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/63e17622-52d0-4670-ad8a-dedd617e5d72/philley-11.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1954 Mystery Jerseys Now that the felt has been cut and the two layers stitched together, I overlaid the felt onto the jersey and was pleased to see that all of the ghosts and tiny holes that I had highlighted were perfectly matched by the new Indians crest that would soon again cover them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/6490be58-8c71-42fa-b0fb-a9c0566fd7df/philley-12.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1954 Mystery Jerseys Every restoration deserves to be documented. Here I share the four-page letter of opinion documenting its restoration for your review. Besides being nice to have, a document like this cement the value of the jersey. I’ll mention something that most people never think of: when an item like this is restored to its original configuration, and a future evaluator places it on the light table the only thing he will see is the ghosts of the Cardinals crest that we removed from the front. He will know it has an Indians crest restored to the front but he won’t be able to see any evidence of what was originally there. That’s a credit to us, we completely covered up every last ghost and pinhole with the replacement crest that exactly matches the old one that had been removed. Without a letter documenting the restoration, the likely result would be that the evaluator would consider this a fabrication; an Indians jersey created on top of the Cardinals one. And that would be incorrect. And it would be a shame. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/b8723c74-e475-4a15-ad81-9c5aaf8cc0d5/philley-13.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1954 Mystery Jerseys I hope you have enjoyed this project. We do all sorts of work at The Dream Shop, from MLB authentications and restorations to the more common projects, lettering people’s store-bought authentic jerseys to make them look just like they were worn on the field. If you have a project that you’d like to consider, please write to me, Bill@theDream.Shop. https://thedream.shop/gallery/restoration-1957-yankees-mickey-mantle monthly 0.5 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/fa134700-cc93-4912-96f1-8f42d9af8a02/mickey-1.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1957 Yankees Mickey Mantle The jersey we have today to restore and authenticate happens to be Mickey Mantle's 1957 Yankees home jersey. That was an MVP year for him, a World Series year, and this jersey has been photo matched to him to his only game in his career where he hit for the cycle. It is here because it needs to be restored so it can go to auction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/244f7fcb-1d3c-4ee4-9ab1-ac86c8d2f136/mickey-2.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1957 Yankees Mickey Mantle The first question I am usually asked when people learn that I am restoring baseball jerseys is, “Restored? Why? What is the matter with them?” It's hard for people to grasp the idea that a historic Yankees jersey from an iconic player in a record-breaking season would be anything other than coveted and well preserved. And that's just not the case. Like with nearly all Yankees jerseys through the early 1990s, this one was sent to the minor leagues after its use in New York was completed. The Yankees had a huge number of farm teams, and because none of them used the iconic "NY" on the front, all of the jerseys had to be stripped for reuse. That was the case with this one. It went to Binghamton where it was repurposed as a Binghamton Triplets jersey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/553703b0-f43c-43f2-8b8c-1a5fde8fb828/mickey-3.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1957 Yankees Mickey Mantle As received, the Triplets crest from the late 50s was still stitched to the front. Mantle’s number seven was on the back, and his name is embroidered in the tail, one can only imagine the thrill of the player to whom this jersey was issued in the minors, having a chance to wear it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/6e3c8e64-9670-49cf-9541-24770c5d85e0/mickey-4.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1957 Yankees Mickey Mantle Looking at it more closely, we turn it inside out and find that it is absolutely filthy. It looks like coffee grounds and cat poop have been rubbed into it. There's a large L shape rip in the back of one of the sleeves. Looking at it, there's no sign that the Yankees crest was on the front, but I know if we some detective work we can find out more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/407081fc-2785-481d-942a-e04c7bdf18fc/mickey-5.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1957 Yankees Mickey Mantle Putting it on the light table, we can see a few very faint marks where the Yankees New York crest had been on the front (more on that in a moment) but I also notice the signature puckering underneath the Triplets logo. That tells me it was washed many many times with that felt emblem stitched in place. Puckering happens when the fabrics shrink at different rates during hot water washing. The amount of puckering tells me that it was probably used for multiple seasons in Binghamton before it was retired. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/0b85f048-8daa-4ad0-8ada-a265baf2beec/mickey-6.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1957 Yankees Mickey Mantle When it came to me, this jersey had already been photo matched. Yankees jerseys are easier than many to photomatch to game use for two reasons. First, the pinstripes help a great deal, we can see where they align at the seams, where the buttons are placed in relation to them, and where the emblems and numbers are stitched compared to the location of the stripes. And secondly, the shear number of photos of the Yankees that appeared in the media compared to other teams. The New York Press was all over them, and especially photos of Mantle were in the newspaper daily. Two different companies photo matched this jersey to over a dozen games including the game that Mantle hit for the cycle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/e92c5558-1df4-4159-bac0-8710258cd4f7/mickey-7.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1957 Yankees Mickey Mantle The light table shows that nothing has been changed on the back of this jersey, and the very fine and even puckering pattern of the flannel fabric beneath the felt number is impossible to reproduce. My conclusion is that the seven on the back is the original one and it is never been touched. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/6c9bcfdb-9ff7-41de-9c13-2b9fc94ce27c/mickey-8.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1957 Yankees Mickey Mantle The first step is to carefully remove the Triplets crest from the front. This needs to be done with a magnifying glass, with a seam ripper, and done one stitch at a time. After the Triplets crest has been removed, we can get started with the light table. We want to look not just for evidence of the Yankees crest on the front, but also the exact placement of it. With any luck it will match the photo matching documents that have already been completed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/b8692d32-76d6-4405-9fda-7ce4f3fc0ec4/mickey-9.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1957 Yankees Mickey Mantle (shown here on the light table but without any photo enhancement) So why is the Triplets shadow so prominent? The reason is primarily because the fabric beneath it is thicker than the surrounding fabric. As this jersey was washed dozens of times with the Triplets crest on the front, that area was protected in the washing machine and stayed thicker. Now with it removed, it is harder for the light to pass through the place it had been sewn. Sometimes the darker area is because of the application of glue that held down the lettering. That is not the case here, once unstitched the Triplets logo came right off. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/ab308ccf-f98a-4b0e-b968-76d3a51277be/mickey-10.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1957 Yankees Mickey Mantle Using a combination of techniques which include using ultraviolet light, the light table and enhancing the image with all of the tools in Adobe Photoshop, we can now clearly see the outline of the Yankees emblem. If you look, you can also see the very clear darker outline of the Triplets emblem that was definitely on this shirt for longer than the Yankees NY was ever there. Legacy ghost imprints on fabric are generally caused by four things: 1) Glue and dye transfer from the old emblem. 2) Fabric compression around the outline edges caused by the sewing machine thread. 3) Noticeable difference in fabric thickness under what would have been the placement of the original emblem. (This occurs when that spot is protected from abrasion during machine-washing by the old emblem, so as the surrounding fabric is abraded it becomes marginally thinner/more threadbare, and allows light to pass through it more easily, the result is a darker area on the light table showing the location of the old emblem.) 4) Small holes caused by the removal of the old emblem. I especially look for holes at the spots where the old and new emblem’s lines may have intersected— these small spots are made especially weaker because they have been sewn over and had thread ripped out twice, making them more likely to produce a hole of some size. In this case, there are no holes surrounding the perimeter of the Yankees NY emblem. It must have been carefully removed, back then. So why are the outline-edges darker? This is an artifact of zigzag stitching. Zigzag stitching was only introduced on commercial sewing machines in the late 1950s, and prior to then, all felt lettering was straight-stitched. When straight stitching is removed it leaves almost no mark, especially if the jersey has been washed many times afterwards. But zigzag stitching compresses the fibers in the fabric very slightly along the stitching line, moving the fibers closer together with the tension of the thread in the machine. The fiber compression causes a dark line in those spots. Because the original seven on the back is still zigzag stitched, we can be confident that the Yankees emblem on the front of this jersey was also zigzag stitched as well. Thanks to this artifact, we can see exactly where the NY logo had been placed. And not surprisingly, it matches exactly the photo match documents from 1957. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/0e521639-1c1b-40a5-8cb5-22f0f5895496/mickey-11.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1957 Yankees Mickey Mantle This forensic work done, we now move to the next step which can be something more than nerve-wracking. We have to wash this priceless garment. I take consolation in the fact that these fabrics were meant to be washed from the beginning, so we are not doing anything revolutionary here. A basin of warm water and a quarter cup of Woolite is where we begin. I gently rub the fabric against itself to try to loosen up all of the dirt that is inside. A couple of stubborn stains require a spray of Oxiclean which helps loosen them up and get them out of the shirt. After washing, I rinse the shirt four times with a basin of clean water to get all of the soap out of it. Once it drips dry into the sink, I roll it tightly in a cotton towel to wick all of the water out of it. We will not be wringing this jersey dry! After this step is completed it is barely damp. I then hang it to air dry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/ddb7cc33-c4c6-4fa7-8849-e6bed07cf07f/mickey-12.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1957 Yankees Mickey Mantle Re-creating the Yankees crest on the front is not a quick and simple process. It involves several steps to make sure that we get it perfectly correct. Going back to 1957, there were no computers or laser cutters. Original team name crests were most commonly cut by hand from felt, the outline set with a powder-dusted vellum pattern. Closely spaced pinholes in the vellum paper allowed talcum powder to fall through and define the edge of the emblem onto a piece of wool felt that was usually backed with a thin layer gauze-like dressmaker’s interfacing to keep it from fraying. The emblem was then cut by hand using a pair of sharp scissors. I have a library of scans of original Yankees crests going back to the 1920s. Before I re-create anything, I look in my library to see what I have that is very close to the emblem on the shirt. In this case, one of my standard 1957 archival emblems matched almost exactly. It needed only a slight bit of tweaking, that was probably related to shrinkage of the fabric of the jersey to make it match. We want to make sure that the new emblem covers the old ghost as much as possible. I was asked whether or not it made sense to find another more common-player 1957 Yankees jersey at auction and steal the front emblem off of it to stitch it in place, using a vintage replacement rather than making a new one. I recommended against this for a couple of reasons. First of all most of the 1957 jerseys that are offered at auction have replacement front crests; they are not the original ones for the same reasons I mentioned before. And secondly it is very unlikely that even an original crest would fit the shrinkage pattern on this jersey exactly. We'd end up with some sort of a mismatch that would be visible on the light table. I have the original Marino wool that was used back in the day, and I recommended that my recreation would be a better solution, and the jersey owner agreed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/0dbf8677-0907-4cf9-85b5-782a69608b1e/mickey-13.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1957 Yankees Mickey Mantle Newly cut from color-matching vintage wool felt, I stitched the emblem in place using a zigzag stitch that closely matched that of the back number 7, in size and frequency, on my 1957 Singer sewing machine. You don't get much more original than that! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/28ce9fa6-6a8f-414e-8b53-4dfd2f4d65d8/mickey-14.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1957 Yankees Mickey Mantle Here is the completed job– everything I’ve learned in my years doing this type of work goes into a conservation like this one. It has to be perfect. Is a piece of American history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/8f0088fb-3a1e-4ef8-9794-1809988c3554/mickey-15.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1957 Yankees Mickey Mantle The final step is always a complete professional letter of opinion, documenting the restoration. I have included my evaluation here over the next copy of photos for you to read. This jersey goes up for auction this week at Goldin auctions, for those of you who may have just won the lottery, the opening bid is $200,000. Here is the link: https://goldin.co/item/1957-mickey-mantle-game-used-new-york-yankees-home-pinstripe-jersey-mvh6e15?queryId=eyJjYXJkSW5kZXgiOjl9 I enjoy working with the folks at Goldin very much: They respect my opinions, and they are incredibly committed to authentication, conservation, and preservation. When I finished this jersey a couple weeks ago, I received the nicest letter from its current owner thanking me for my work. This is why I do what I do, it makes me happy, and it makes other people happy. Now, on to the next project… maybe it is yours? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/7bcdca03-b265-41e8-bac3-342154f8ad3d/mickey-16.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1957 Yankees Mickey Mantle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/65d2d7bb-1be2-4d81-8fc9-953f7938cb78/mickey-17.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1957 Yankees Mickey Mantle https://thedream.shop/gallery/restoration-1960-pirates-roberto-clemente monthly 0.5 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/5a096042-ce9c-4109-a7b1-e195ee2e3fa9/pirates-1.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1960 Pirates Roberto Clemente A devoted Pirates collector won this priceless relic at auction: Roberto Clemente’s Pirates road jersey from the Bucs’ 1960 World Championship year. He sent it to me asking me to renew the braid trim on the neck and armhole openings. Now, we here at the Dream Shop regularly handle a lot of precious artifacts, but we admit this one made our knees go a little weak… were we up to the task of making this collection centerpiece museum-worthy? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/7dfd24d4-e37b-4063-b657-a4a2ffd44903/pirates-2.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1960 Pirates Roberto Clemente Looking closely at the neck and sleeves, all three openings showed heavy wear. The trim had deteriorated to mere threads and strings at the points of heaviest wear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/58b10454-b3d9-4157-8dd3-15d5aca8568d/pirates-3.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1960 Pirates Roberto Clemente Normally, we turn to our cabinet of notions and odds and ends to see what is there… I have spools and spools of almost all the trim braid used by all the teams over the past 50 years. But this was different… a flannel jersey that was 60 years old, and it used an obsolete kind of fine-woven nylon trim rare today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/f81bd70d-6afc-4e9b-a837-962d478b2de8/pirates-4.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1960 Pirates Roberto Clemente Here is how the modern trim looks next to the original style. Close, but how could we do better? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/a5e6ff01-cf5f-4e35-afc9-6106fa5d4f4f/pirates-5.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1960 Pirates Roberto Clemente The answer is found in an idea that is unthinkable for most collectors. Our customer procured another 1960 Pirates jersey, that one having belonged to a coach, and asked me to “harvest”: the trim from it and swap it onto the Clemente. Gulp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/903fbf6c-53cc-4ac0-8c20-70f66299afae/pirates-6.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1960 Pirates Roberto Clemente We start with taking dozens of detailed photos of the Clemente: all the stitching front and back, the trim placement in relation to the seams and the edges of the fabric, how it is inserted and pinched inside the seams of the garment which we’ll likely have to open up as a part of the process. When it goes back together it MUST be undetectable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/efd846d3-5f92-4b9f-83b6-2fcedb78033e/pirates-7.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1960 Pirates Roberto Clemente The trim needs to come off the coach’s jersey one painstaking stitch at a time. But it too has wear spots and is frayed, so that it is obvious we are not going to be able to swap the entire strips onto the Clemente. This is going to be even more tricky than that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/c4925875-8a9c-4f49-9c37-90636564c08d/pirates_8.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1960 Pirates Roberto Clemente We carefully remove the trim from the Clemente only in the spots where it has worn through, which amounts to about 2/3 of it. Two reasons we don't take it all off: we want to leave as much as possible of the original in place for historical value. And secondly, we quite simply don't have enough of the replacement trim to do it all! In sequence you can see the steps involved in the splicing. The good trim is sectioned so that we find pieces that are exactly the right length to cover the bare spots on the Clemente. We then blend the edges of the woven fibers together and stitch the new using the exact color of top stitch (dark gold) and bobbin thread (medium gray) as the original. I don’t want anyone to “see” the repairs unless they are really looking for them. You can see the result in the final photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/027906b8-eb80-4094-8972-1dff5785acf3/pirates-9.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1960 Pirates Roberto Clemente Here is the final result, up close. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/fe2098de-283e-4afd-a23a-b351a9c0f98f/pirates-10.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1960 Pirates Roberto Clemente Here is how the completed jersey looks, ready to be displayed. Sharp eyes will also notice that I swapped the entire set of original style 2-hole buttons from the coach's jersey to replace the mismatched set on the Clemente. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/ec9b2d9b-90b3-402d-814c-a7d14f26e0bc/pirates-11.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1960 Pirates Roberto Clemente But that’s not the end of the story… we can’t leave the #43 jersey ruined and bare. That one is restored as well, using the modern trim, which unless I told you, you probably would not know it was not original. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/a448f600-d6f1-435b-b5c2-1520ce026963/pirates-12.jpeg Gallery - Restoration: 1960 Pirates Roberto Clemente Finally, and this is so important— a Document of Restoration is completed and supplied with the restored jersey. It tells exactly what was done: when, and by whom. The importance of this is very simple. Any future collector who might want to purchase this 1960 Clemente, upon researching auction photos will surely notice the worn trim in the auction photos and wonder what happened, and perhaps suspect this is a fraudulent copy of the original. Our document cements the value of the item by providing a visual trail to explain the transformation. Onto. the next project! https://thedream.shop/gallery/restoration-1964-milwaukee-braves-eddie-mathews monthly 0.5 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/4341014a-8e70-4024-be62-9a888a8c98de/eddie-1.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1964 Milwaukee Braves Eddie Mathews As received, the jersey was in very good condition, but had been stripped of the player name on back. Why? Well, as a rule, back in those days, at the end of the season jerseys for most teams, all the uniforms were gathered up and unceremoniously stripped of their player names to prepare them to be sent to the minor leagues for another few seasons of hard use. After careful examination, my conclusion is that “someone” saved this particular relic from such a painful process of destruction, and pulled it from circulation. It has been lovingly kept in this unrestored condition the past 55 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/6fd6e644-fde6-4c5a-859f-f8fe26d42e8a/eddie-2.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1964 Milwaukee Braves Eddie Mathews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/2e345ef8-dfb5-496f-b3f4-42d71fb7ab58/eddie-3.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1964 Milwaukee Braves Eddie Mathews The first thing I do is put the jersey on the flatbed scanner and scan it in high resolution. This does two things for me. First, I can zoom in and see every tiny detail of where the old stitching was removed. Sewing fabric compresses the weave of the cloth very slightly where the thread enters and exits. Secondly, a scan like this is PERFECTLY 100% of original size when imported to my vector graphics application, Adobe Illustrator. There will be no guesswork in determining the actual original size. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/629c8228-b1af-4638-a5e3-3b4e84beceaf/eddie-4.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1964 Milwaukee Braves Eddie Mathews Next, I take high resolution photos of the jersey placed on the light table, and overlay the scanner’s images to match its 100% size. The shadows we can see are from the microscopic weave compression that remains from that stitching done 55 years ago. Even repeated washing does not completely erase these artifacts. These ghosts are a starting point to allow us to make a perfect replication of the removed lettering. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/c12c3b15-6d91-4e68-b007-5729f941c5ec/eddie-5.jpeg Gallery - Restoration: 1964 Milwaukee Braves Eddie Mathews Here is the process of creating the pattern for the lettering. The top, arched example is a direct trace of the lettering from the scan. The middle example shows the letters arranged into a drunken line. The distortion that is so visible here is from the fact that the fabric is pliable and easily distorted. It will never do to cut lettering that looks like this! The bottom example is the lettering, cleaned up with all artifacts removed. Even though this font was clearly created by a draftsman on a drafting table, we can assume that he followed basic rules of design, keeping strokes the same width; angles and outlines consistent. But it still does not tell us all we need to know; outline widths for example. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/a86c19c6-a35e-48f9-aaae-c1683937ef63/eddie-6.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1964 Milwaukee Braves Eddie Mathews Available photographs of the odd Braves NOB lettering are surprisingly scarce to the researcher. Most auction jerseys have had their NOBs badly replaced. And press photos from smaller market teams are hard to find. In my years of research, I find that most available photos of smaller market teams are taken when they are ON THE ROAD and visiting New York, Detroit, St. Louis or Boston. Here are a couple of photos I was able to scrounge up, and they help me confirm lettering shapes as well as the width of the blue outline that is not evident from the shadows on the stripped garment. These photos allow me to fine tune my alphabet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/e89a0a3a-3645-4957-b8e2-f456e40296b0/eddie-7.jpeg Gallery - Restoration: 1964 Milwaukee Braves Eddie Mathews Here is the proof, sent to the collector for his approval. This essential step is a key part of my quality process, and it is never skipped. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/03ae1e64-4f55-4319-850c-368f37e0e067/eddie-8.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1964 Milwaukee Braves Eddie Mathews If you are a real geek— this part will light your fire, Here I am using a special tool called a NIX color sensor. It pairs with my iPhone and scans colors, giving me a detailed numeric analysis of the blend of magenta, cyan and process yellow in every swatch. (yes, there are hints of blue and yellow in the color “red”) Here, you can see its numeric evaluation of the red in the original lettering. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/b16de87d-5df8-49e2-be08-53bdf0dc704f/eddie-9.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1964 Milwaukee Braves Eddie Mathews Next, I scan my closest-matching fabrics. The bottom scan on each set of three is from the jersey’s lettering. The top two scans are of the tackle twill I plan to use. Why are there two? Well, as we have shown before here, tackle twill is color-shifting in the light. When the fabric is rotated 90 degrees, it looks like a slightly different color to the eye. The top two scans in both the red and blue are of the same fabrics, but at zero degrees and 90 degrees of physical rotation. By the way, this is the end result of a much longer process where I test fabric of slightly different colors from different dye lots. These were just the closest matches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/8f0d3045-27cc-4917-b61c-4641a9bc3e02/eddie-10.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1964 Milwaukee Braves Eddie Mathews Next, I cut the lettering on the Ioline cutter. Both colors are cut in one pass for perfect alignment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/436d5437-1544-4f89-8064-70a44cbefa74/eddie-11.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1964 Milwaukee Braves Eddie Mathews Why are there two? One of these is 5% larger than the other. I will boil both in distilled water and then steam them aggressively to dry them, causing them to pucker and shrink to simulate 50 years of use. I can’t be sure which set will be the “right” size when this process is complete, so I make two sets. The lettering is shown tacked to a piece of corrugated cardboard so I can media blast it to dull the sheen to match the appearance of the original, aged lettering. I know I’ve strafed it long enough when the purple “FedEx” logo printed on the box lid starts to disappear! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/5f992314-0102-4bdb-8688-b230663f9b2b/eddie-12.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1964 Milwaukee Braves Eddie Mathews I soak the media-blasted lettering in water… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/d5375541-43a0-4a78-99ee-fffb44d8c458/eddie-13.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1964 Milwaukee Braves Eddie Mathews Then I steam it aggressively at 330 degrees, creating clouds of hissing vapor. The result of all this abuse creates lettering that closely matches the old in terms of texture, pucker, softness of edges, and color. (this is wet, "pre-steamed") https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/4a8ba2cb-5df3-4434-b047-47c131408af6/eddie-14.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1964 Milwaukee Braves Eddie Mathews Thread matching is an important next step. Usually made with a cotton blend, the thread used to hold the lettering generally has faded even more than the lettering itself. I keep a selection of “bleached color” threads to match the aged originals. My Navy blue thread is actually a shade of violet; the red is a shade of rose. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/cbd6a7f4-4604-4ebd-ae5e-5b166ae00fef/eddie-15.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1964 Milwaukee Braves Eddie Mathews I carefully test to match the size and frequency of my stitching to the original tailor’s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/687694c2-3f87-4356-bbba-369b38e9b379/eddie-16.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1964 Milwaukee Braves Eddie Mathews I lightly spray the backs of the letters with a tacking adhesive so they will stay put for stitching once I have laid them in place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/a367fb8a-f2a8-410c-a9b8-7ca40fc59a66/eddie-17.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1964 Milwaukee Braves Eddie Mathews The placement of the new lettering is done on the light table. My goal is to exactly cover the original shadows so that zero evidence remains of the letters having gone missing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/770aff01-6281-493c-b307-bff1cfd02167/eddie-18.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1964 Milwaukee Braves Eddie Mathews Here, the lettering being stitched in place on my 1957 vintage Singer Slant-o-Matic sewing machine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/e358ab2d-a368-42aa-918f-3b416f853917/eddie-19.jpeg Gallery - Restoration: 1964 Milwaukee Braves Eddie Mathews I always, always, always recommend that anyone having a jersey restored by me also should get a Document of Restoration, describing and picturing the process. Why? It cements the knowledge that this jersey was restored to original condition, and not fraudulently modified to fool someone. This simple document can add thousands of dollars to the value of an item at auction in the future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/64139001-a65d-49d5-97cb-ba4bc3d372a0/eddie-20.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1964 Milwaukee Braves Eddie Mathews Here is the detail of the final product https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/972fb800-373a-4622-bf6c-15aaa5bdfb52/eddie-21.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1964 Milwaukee Braves Eddie Mathews How much does something like this cost? A restoration to this level of accuracy takes me more than a day to complete. Imaging what you might pay your lawyer, CPA, or bricklayer for a day and a half of his time and you’ll be in the right ballpark. And while I’ve been asked to invest this much time in valuable pieces like this one, you might be surprised the number of times I do it for items which have a high sentimental value to their owner, alone. And, on to the next project! https://thedream.shop/gallery/recreation-1972-rangers monthly 0.5 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/35790ac7-2cc1-48df-b83c-3b00eddaaae9/rangers-1.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1972 Rangers Quick Take: Steve is one of my customers who is a passionate collector of the unusual asked me to make something I had never done before. He wanted a Texas Rangers 1972 Spring Training jersey. So I made him one! Follow along... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/a5ed4029-5522-4f8c-9e3b-cb4b7add7dcd/rangers-2.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1972 Rangers Those of us with a sense of baseball-expansion history will recall that the Texas Rangers were the third incarnation of the Washington Senators… a team that barely hung on in the American League for decades, and that even survived being the butt of the joke in the 1955 Broadway production of Damn Yankees. I’ll skip the long story, but if you want to read it, you’ll find it here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Senators_(1901%E2%80%931960) The first iteration of the Senators moved the Minnesota to become the Twins in 1961. A new Senators team was formed for 1962, but it lasted only ten seasons before they too were sold as the Texas Rangers in 1972. (Screen shots in this post are pulled form my book The Game Worn Guide to MLB Jerseys 1970-2020 https://gamewornguides.com ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/b5231b06-3296-4d23-ab2f-7d7cbc2bacde/rangers-3.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1972 Rangers A club with no money does things that today would be unthinkable…. And the new Rangers franchise needed uniforms to go to spring training with, so they stripped the Senators 1971 flannel uniforms and sewed the new Rangers wordmark on the front. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/c82de4e7-a070-4d2d-8e73-9d6d71a3c7e5/rangers-4.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1972 Rangers On back the old Senators numbers remained, in the same font and colors as they had been issued in the 1971 season. Today, finding any of these, either as Senators or Rangers flannels is a rarity. They are all in private collections if they have not instead been sent to the rag bin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/90a6c86b-e045-47f6-8e76-6023ada0ad92/rangers-5.jpeg Gallery - Recreation: 1972 Rangers The fancy cowboy-themed red and blue wordmark for the 1972 flannel spring training Rangers was nearly flat across… not curved in an arch as it would appear on the Rangers new 1972 regular season double knits. Here, the vector art I created to drive the laser cutter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/e2bcfb5c-4d88-442a-ba75-f1df21a7258b/rangers-6.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1972 Rangers Here is how the 1972 inaugural season double knit Rangers home jersey looked. Note the modern knit sleeve ends and the arched crest on the chest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/8bd7bd6e-9cb0-4fab-905e-bc29097ead04/rangers-7.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1972 Rangers My source to draw the wordmark came from this well preserved example that had been worn by 1971 Senators-1972 Rangers manager Ted Williams! Here, my work order proof, prepared for the client’s approval before we do anything else… an essential step in guaranteeing customer satisfaction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/d1a0ea5e-9c6d-4771-bbc2-0fd8bc34bf93/rangers-8.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1972 Rangers The tiny hand embroidered white circle with the star in it appeared on a different spot on the spring training issue compared to the regular season uniforms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/fe514af6-4937-4abf-af78-842a6f869c07/rangers-9.jpg Gallery - Recreation: 1972 Rangers Here is the final product! To make this jersey, Steve bought a blank Ebbets Field Flannel cream colored jersey and I did the artwork, laser-cut and stitched the lettering in the proper tackle twill. I like this one enough that I think I want one for myself. It’s a rather inexpensive project and one that you won’t see anywhere else. On to the next fun project. https://thedream.shop/gallery/restoration-1972-white-sox monthly 0.5 2026-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/91a96fd1-21d6-459b-bcf3-ca11176dbee3/whitesox-1.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1972 White Sox "Back from the Dead" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/169de738-166b-4385-b933-54d5cc470be4/whitesox-2.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1972 White Sox "Back from the Dead" “It’s not worth saving… just send it back to me and I’ll decide later what to do with it.” That’s what Mark Fletcher, the owner of this jersey had told me. At his instruction, we had just completed another project, “borrowing” the front crest from this 1972 White Sox road knit to transplant onto and restore a more valuable 1971 road flannel. This was the bones of the donor. And clearly, it had had a hard life. From all appearances, after being issued to infielder Bill Melton for the 1972 season, it was renumbered to 60, a perfect spring training number for a prospect, and then used for multiple years in the team’s spring training camp. No roster player had been issued #60 in the five years subsequent that this jersey would have seen duty (counting 1976 spring training) “It will end up hanging in your closet for the next thirty years if we do that” I cautioned. “Then someone will throw it away. Let me restore it. It won’t be cheap, but with proper documentation it will be worth something and you can sell it if you want. These are so uncommon now, some fifty years after they were made and there are so few left.” True: In 1972, the only White Sox jerseys made were the ones the players on the team wore. There were none made for collectors of fans, and sadly most were stripped of the front script and sent to the minors. Precious few remain. Mark agreed. And he specified that he wanted it restored to look old— having the lettering media blasted and dyed to make it match the patina of the garment to which it would be sewn. And so we began the process of restoring a jersey that otherwise would have been discarded and forgotten. This was our starting point. A very dirty, badly stained jersey shell, naked and with shredded trim. Prior to me getting it, someone had removed the numbers “60” and then likely seeing how badly it was stained underneath, just gave up on it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/8551b7ec-7054-468c-9594-adc79f5382ed/whitesox-3.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1972 White Sox "Back from the Dead" Close up, we could see what appeared to have been a washing machine disaster, the fabric was stained purple in many spots, then bleached by the sun especially on the shoulder tops as is common. Glue and thread remained showing the outlines of its history. The front zipper was also history, hanging like a spiny noodle from the placket. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/4ea49222-c1e3-460e-90d3-54add3beffed/whitesox-4.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1972 White Sox "Back from the Dead" The light table is used to lift the images of what was once sewn to it. After doing this for many years, I have amassed a fairly compete set of team patterns culled from handling and authenticating so many jerseys. But when a jersey is this worn out, the fabric has shrunk and distorted from use and hot water washing. On top of that, most original lettering was hand cut with scissors, so no two jerseys are exactly alike.I needed to be sure that the lettering I cut would exactly cover the rather pronounced ghosts. Here you can see the outlines of the original 14 from the back. There is some distortion in the fabric under the “4”. I do not cut lettering with distortion baked in, rather I cut it to spec and then shrink it with steam once cut to make it conform. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/7994043a-fded-44df-b783-da65905107e8/whitesox-5.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1972 White Sox "Back from the Dead" Mark had told me that he had washed the jersey before he sent it to me. Nevertheless, this is what my hand-washing in Oxiclean generated. I then hand scrubbed the stained fabric with a mixture of Oxiclean paste (powder barely dissolved in a little water) and a diluted solution of Clorox. (I do this outdoors and wear a hazmat mask. I value my health.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/0b1fd333-c598-4438-a2a6-bfad58d56131/whitesox-6.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1972 White Sox "Back from the Dead" After thoroughly rinsing multiple times in clean water to remove all traces of the detergent, I dry the fabric by lying it flat in a towel and then tightly rolling it up in the towel. Then I hang it to dry in the sunshine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/5760308a-d5ba-4a48-8611-e3471169cf7c/whitesox-7.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1972 White Sox "Back from the Dead" Meanwhile, I create all the cutting patterns on the computer in Adobe Illustrator. The red fabric we will use is the slightly lighter color called University Red, not bright Crimson Red. I have found that when we age-distress the lighter shade it looks more true to the aged patina we are seeking. The cut pattern images laid on top of the jersey photos create the proof I next sent to Mark to review and approve. Every job that goes through here gets a proof. It is and important sept in quality control, and gives the client a chance to preview what the final product will look like and make changes if he/she wishes. No surprises… no mistakes…no rework. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/387df205-5038-4808-b569-9640cb3c0b87/whitesox-8.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1972 White Sox "Back from the Dead" The jersey needed a new zipper. I was able to source a brass replacement with an identical white backing to the original. Original 1972 zippers were made by Talon, and these are available with a lot of searching from vintage stock, we oped to go with one that looked identical but that lacked the Talon lettering on the tab saving money and time. Trim needed to be reapplied. This 1972 knit used the old style flat woven nylon uniform braid that was common during the flannel uniform era, not like the polyester trim that is used today. Luckily I have a vintage collection of trim made on the original machines and from the original supplier that created this roll some fifty years ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/9f8dab69-493c-497e-9bfc-e111e06ca6b7/whitesox-9.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1972 White Sox "Back from the Dead" After cutting the lettering, I test-place it on the garment to see if it covers the shadows. The small ”WHITE SOX” lettering on the tail of the logo was hand embroidered by seamstress Emily, who also sewed in the new zipper, the new trim and all the lettering. We use off-color thread to make it look like it has been washed many times vs. how it would have looked brand new. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/a2b11c4d-0291-4aeb-8580-44f6a55103ce/whitesox-10.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1972 White Sox "Back from the Dead" The next step is media blasting. Tacked firmly to cardboard, the lettering is placed into my full-sized blast cabinet and strafed with a hand-mixed compound of abrasives that dull the sheen of the twill, soften the edges and make it look like it’s been used and washed a bunch of times. The photo at the right is AFTER blasting— notice that some areas of the printed on ink on the cardboard has been blasted away. That’s how I know when we have done it enough! I also similarly blast the trim to age it, pre-sewing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/0edd42fe-075a-46a5-83eb-a20ea3858a29/whitesox-11.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1972 White Sox "Back from the Dead" Normally impervious to dyes and bleach, tackle twill has a precious few substances that will stain it and make it look old. I mix up this concoction in my kitchen, and because this lettering is to be severely aged, I boil it on low for about ten minuets on the stove, I also boil the trim in the stuff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/b5fa676b-0823-407b-8e14-40d93cfcc56b/whitesox-12.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1972 White Sox "Back from the Dead" Once the dyeing is complete, I rinse and leave the lettering wet. Working with the newly clean jersey on the light table, I aggressively steam the cut and sewn lettering on the plate steamer to make it conform to the shapes of the ghosts on the shirt. I wear gloves to do this, because steam is hot and dangerous. Subtle tweaks in the shapes of the lettering can be made while the pieces are hot with steam. I also steam the trim the same way to give it some age and pucker. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/08e57e82-6c98-4d75-b3c8-14df1da25def/whitesox-13.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1972 White Sox "Back from the Dead" Emily stitches the trim in place, and you can see how bright and clean the formerly yellowed linen lining inside the collar is after all our work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/31ac6ab5-73ce-4efc-ab63-57b3638d177a/whitesox-14.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1972 White Sox "Back from the Dead" The final result! This jersey will never pass for new… nor should it. It is still discolored in spots, but the overall garment has been brightened considerably and the color evened out from our careful but aggressive washing. The replacement trim looks just as it should, not jarring and new, but slightly yellowed and harmonious with the fabric it compliments. The aging of the twill is subtle… you don’t even notice it, and that’s the point. If left crisp, shiny and new it would look out of place, like a shiny new fender on an old car. There is some intentional distortion of the “4” on the back that matches the ghost beneath. Notice that we do not touch the tagging: tagging is like the serial number on a car or a gun, and it should never be tampered with even if missing or in bad shape. Sure, a jersey with original tagging in perfect condition is worth more than one that is worn, but beware: tagging that is tampered with even with all good intentions makes the jersey all but worthless to serious collectors, and many auction houses will not even touch such an item. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/96dad5bd-ad58-44e2-9184-d22985264aff/whitesox-15.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1972 White Sox "Back from the Dead" Every jersey that is restored deserves a letter of restoration documenting the process. We’ve covered this here before, but the reason is simple: this document shows the before and after and describes the process. Without it, when placed on a light table, the authenticator will only see the outlines of the numbers “60” on the back and the sleeve, and because of our careful restoration will never see the outlines of the original 14s. Therefore, he may conclude that the jersey was originally #60 and was tampered with and the numbers changed. This jersey has a full authentication as well as its document of restoration. A job like this is a lot of work, and is not inexpensive… but the end result has preserved a relic and made it something worth displaying. The documentation of its restoration and its authentication as a piece of 1972 White Sox history cements its future value when it is sold, even if that time is many decades from now. I probably do about three restorations like this one each month, though most are not this dramatic. I rarely take the time to photograph and write these up like this— it just takes too much time, I’m afraid! On to the next project. https://thedream.shop/gallery/restoration-bbbull monthly 0.5 2026-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/355be372-12ad-4ed8-b97d-51f403223881/bbbull-1.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1960s San Francisco Giants Orlando Cepeda https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/810f03ff-8cff-4b0f-8293-7f7b7e240512/bbbull-2.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1960s San Francisco Giants Orlando Cepeda In a 16 year career, Cepeda was 1958’s National League Rookie of the Year, an 11 time All-Star, and was selected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Giants and a bronze statue of him stands at one of the four corners of the stadium naming him as one of the four greatest Giants of all time. His number 30 is retired by the Giants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/4bebd41e-6f39-490f-bc6b-084b062a15c7/bbbull-3.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1960s San Francisco Giants Orlando Cepeda This game worn gray flannel McGregor jersey came my way from collector Mark H. While it still had Cepeda’s retired number 30 on back, the front had been converted to say “Springfield” as it was unceremoniously sent to the minor leagues along all the other team uniforms, typical practice in the early 1960s. The light table confirms that the 30 on the back is original, but that the front crest was a replacement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/a914e367-9edb-4a96-98d1-0bcd177b7009/bbbull-4.jpeg Gallery - Restoration: 1960s San Francisco Giants Orlando Cepeda Four different manufacturers made San Francisco Giants road uniforms 1958-1966; MacGregor, Rawlings, Wilson and Spalding. Each used their own slightly different patterns for the front team crest, and each used their own style of back numbers. Life then was less complicated; as long as it said “San Francisco” on the front and “30” on the back, the details didn’t seem to matter. Of course, I used the proper McGregor font pattern for this restoration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/da3193ef-9cd9-4bac-915b-2b3716db7761/bbbull-5.jpeg Gallery - Restoration: 1960s San Francisco Giants Orlando Cepeda Along with the original back numbers, Cepeda’s name remains hand chain stitched in red embroidery thread on a small rectangle of felt, stitched into the back of the neck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/07175b24-85ab-4540-9ad6-3b94480404f9/bbbull-6.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1960s San Francisco Giants Orlando Cepeda After removing the SPRINGFIELD lettering from the front, the light table helped by showing the ghosts of the original arch and letter placement. The new lettering was pre-stitched then was media blasted and dyed to give it the patina of age to match the 60 year old jersey it was being sewn to. Notably, the original lettering was clocked slightly to the left making the left side of the crest a little lower than the right side. Replicating the imperfection, I stitched the lettering directly over the barely visible shadows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/f72d4d85-0ad2-4ab8-82bf-61e46a3aaa74/bbbull-7.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1960s San Francisco Giants Orlando Cepeda Here is the end result, looking just as it did when worn on the field some sixty-odd years ago. The back was left untouched. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/8108ba20-c425-4e3a-87ce-80ea91913212/bbbull-8.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1960s San Francisco Giants Orlando Cepeda Mark surprised me a few weeks later, sending me these photos, and the short message “Got the Cepeda back from you just in time to have it signed!” Seeing this star of my childhood weathered by age is a humbling reminder to me that none of us stays young and invincible forever. I am so happy for Mark to have had a chance to meet the man and briefly reunite his old game jersey with him. This is truly why I do what I do. ******* It may surprise some of you to know that this is my retirement job, and “The Dream Shop” name refers mostly to it being my dream job after a long corporate career. I do every day what I love and help make other people happy at the same time. Who could ask for more than that? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/1f00a1c8-dd07-4344-9500-e50ef6716a45/bbbull-9.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1960s San Francisco Giants Orlando Cepeda As a postscript, I always recommend that any changes I make be properly documented with at least a Letter of Restoration, if not a full letter of authenticity. Doing so helps cement the historical progression of the jersey therefore aids in protecting its historical value. https://thedream.shop/gallery/restoration-1976-diamond monthly 0.5 2026-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/becd0ee7-e4a4-46dc-964a-3f72f319a02f/diamond-1.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1976 "Diamond in the Rough" “Is this worth restoring? And what is it? These were the questions that collector Guy H. Asked me. He sent me photos of a rather dingy Braves jersey in the uncommon style worn only 1976-1979. I was intrigued. These were the uniforms the Braves had adopted right after the “feather style”: that Hank Aaron was famously wearing when he hit his record breaking home run, and the style they wore when I was in high school. *** I knew that the organization had multiple minor league clubs also named “Braves” and very often wore their own Braves jerseys from the 1970s-1980s, and that these are frequently incorrectly represented as MLB issue when they had actually started their lives for from Atlanta, sewn as minor league uniforms from day one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/dee248ce-1618-440f-82ec-a45ff52e937f/diamond-2.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1976 "Diamond in the Rough" “Send it along", I suggested. Let me take a look at it on the light table and see what I can learn. I was hopeful. Even though it had clearly had a number change,. The “76 44” team tagging in the collar offered promise. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/1861623a-0b16-4809-91e5-e49f0c8b04d7/diamond-3.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1976 "Diamond in the Rough" When it arrived, it was clear that the jersey had done several tours of duty. While the front numbers could have been original, The back numbers were not, and on the light table it was clear that another set of two numbers had been on the back before, sewn uncharacteristically low. But odder still, there was some slight fabric scarring right between the two back numbers up near the top of the back of the shirt. Not much, just a couple of stray lines, and while they extended under the current back numbers, it didn’t look long enough to be anyone’s name. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/c1297556-e087-4fe4-8902-aca2d45d54b1/diamond-4.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1976 "Diamond in the Rough" Besides, MLB Braves home jerseys in 1976-79 didn’t have player names on back, they didn’t appear until 1980 and after the NEXT uniform style change…and minor league teams didn’t generally use player names on back. What was it? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/f3532e32-4a85-4d49-bf9f-2b2fe17a0e2e/diamond-5.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1976 "Diamond in the Rough" But wait— Low-placed numbers…. Name on back… it occurred to me suddenly. Yes, the Braves DID briefly use names on back, in early 1976, and literally for only a few weeks. When mogul Ted Turner bought the team, he outfitted them with flashy new uniforms that incorporated player nicknames instead of the traditional use of player last names on the jersey backs. Traditionalists rolled their eyes, but Turner was a showman and after-all, there was no rule saying you couldn’t do this… All was tolerated by the league, until Turner crossed an invisible line by having pitcher Andy Messerschmitt appear wearing the number 17 with the word "CHANNEL" above it, slyly advertising Turner’s TV station. At that point the commissioner stepped in and said that this had to stop. Quickly, the jerseys were gone, and the team appeared unceremoniously after May 22 wearing a brand new set of uniforms with no names at all on back. What happened to the nickname jerseys? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/9d83f422-08b4-4cb3-a31c-46a9c0a7ad06/diamond-6.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1976 "Diamond in the Rough" You can see the pages from my book, here. (Thanks to collector Tony Cocci for his help assembling this research) Very, very few of these jerseys have ever surfaced, and their whereabouts were generally a mystery. Collectors had unearthed a few, but for the most part, these had been lost to the ages in the intervening, nearly five decades. Back then, people didn’t collect this stuff, and teams reissued their equipment, including player uniforms, using them again and again until they were finally discarded. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/54f50c04-0c28-4131-bf03-a79f47c8291c/diamond-7.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1976 "Diamond in the Rough" I strongly suspected we had found one of these rare beasts, hiding in plain view. Guy gave me the permission to strip off its back numbers to see what we could learn. The jersey was tremendously dirty, and finding the outlines on the light table was not easy. Look at the photos here- and notice the evidence that shows up on the light table that is nearly invisible to the naked eye. I was able to discern a few lines, and with the old numbers out of the way I could see that these old numbers were huge, almost football jersey sized.. They extended it a full 7 inches below the current numbers, and went nearly to the top of the shirt. I was able to coax out enough faint strokes, glue points and pulls in the fabric that I could see that the original number had been 49. Who was 49 on the 1976 Braves? The answer was pitcher Carl Morton. Searching the Internet and my own files I was actually able to find a photo of Morton, wearing number 49 with the nickname above the numbers “MO”. That 2-letter name on back explained why I could barely see any signs of a typical name that I had expected! **** Now that I knew what I was looking for, I started zoomed in to look for the intersection of any possible shadow lines so I could re-establish the placement and positioning of the 1976 original lettering. Here is what I came up with. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/aedc6741-03aa-4c63-87fd-2f6c0e2d63ed/diamond-8.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1976 "Diamond in the Rough" Almost unbelievably, this clear photo we have of Morton shows the entire back of his jersey. I was able to blow it up, I distorted it slightly to “flatten” its angle using Adobe Illustrator, then overlaid it onto the light table scan image of the jersey I had in my hands. And lo and behold, there were multiple pinstripe intersections of each of the shadow lines that I could decipher when compared to that 45 year old photograph! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/53d56ef0-2653-4b65-9434-160d042599b4/diamond-9.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1976 "Diamond in the Rough" I next turned my attention to the front of the jersey. A couple of things caught my eye. First of all the front numbers looked original. Braves jerseys from this period attached the lettering using a very untraditional method. The lettering was actually two color: blue twill over white, and then the edge of the white fabric was bound to the shirt using a very tight embroidery stitch of red thread. They may have thought it looked fancy and unique, but to my eyes it generally looked somewhat sloppy, and as the years went by the red embroidery faded and frayed and looked even worse, including the fact that the tight stitching caused the fabric of the shirt to pucker badly underneath every single stitched element. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/69527916-8030-4db3-ba71-a48363d27414/diamond-10.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1976 "Diamond in the Rough" I noted in a couple of places where the Braves wordmark looked like it had been removed and re-stitched. My supposition is that it had gotten so ratty and puckered that the minor-league team ripped out all the red thread, ironed the fabric flat and re-stitched it all back on. It's actually very probable that they did just that: labor was cheap, and teams regularly went to extreme measures to preserve the viability and reuse of old uniforms, a practice they would simply never bother to engage today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/d57ddee6-a03f-4348-86c2-ea07b9723a11/diamond-11.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1976 "Diamond in the Rough" The 46 on the front looked completely original, but I decided to remove the six to see if it had perhaps been turned upside down and was originally a nine. When I did, very faint ghost lines from old stitching on the shirt and some flecks of dried glue in the single spot I expected to see it confirmed my suspicion. The front numbers were very probably the originals, and the second digit had been turned upside down and re-stitched in place. My guess was that the leading 4 was original and had never been removed. It's probably the only original stitched element remaining on the shirt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/d1cb5156-0ed4-4568-b557-9300566a256d/diamond-12.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1976 "Diamond in the Rough" Using the ghost outlines of the numbers and name letters from the back, I re-created these in the appropriate colors of two layer tackle twill. The back numbers are a huge 9 1/2 inches tall. I don't think there's ever been taller back numbers on a jersey in major league baseball, ever. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/f651e10a-5474-48ef-82ab-d0aed9328ff7/diamond-13.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1976 "Diamond in the Rough" Our forensic work complete I now turned my attention to cleaning this filthy shirt. It was so stained with years of dirt, and caked with dried crusty adhesive, that when put on the light table you could barely see through it in some spots. I have learned one of the dangers of cleaning very dirty fabric is that you can over-clean it in parts, ending up with bright white spots that the rest of the shirt can’t hope to ever again match. So I proceeded with care. You can see in this picture that I was able to remove most of the glue that had been layered on underneath both the original and current numbers. Now it was my job to make the rest of the shirt at least as white as this. I use chlorine bleach only as a last resort, and I did not have to use it on this one. After wetting the jersey and literally soaking it with Oxiclean pre-treat spray, I let it sit for almost a full day, then soaked it in a bucket of water with Oxiclean powder, agitating the water every hour or so. I machine-washed it twice using Oxiclean and non-chlorine bleach, and the result was stunning. The jersey color evened out to the point where it looked quite presentable indeed. This represented over an hour of intense work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/5d75d59c-2705-45ce-a68e-694e71aec557/diamond-14.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1976 "Diamond in the Rough" The next step is to make the new lettering match the old in terms of color and patina. After being washed dozens of times and worn on the field in dozens of games, the twill lettering doesn't look very much like it did when it was new. The shine is gone, and white fades to beige. I've done enough of these now that I have ample experience with both media blasting and organically dying new lettering to make it approximate the look of the well worn originals. I proceeded to execute that process in the sandblaster and on the stove, to make the old lettering looked like it belonged. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/7707e688-0f44-412c-bfe3-68d2eb6c7bcd/diamond-15.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1976 "Diamond in the Rough" Finally, tacking the now-aged lettering in place over the old outlines required me to actually slightly pucker the fabric of the shirt beneath the new numbers. In its decades of use the Jersey had become misshapen, and to make all of the lines of the jerseys pinstripes match the appropriate places on the numbers I was stitching on top, I had to perform some minor manipulation. You can see that the back numbers are not completely straight and perpendicular to each other. Part of this is due to the stretching of the shirt through years of use, and frankly they probably never were exactly aligned in the first place; looking at the historic picture seems to confirm that. . Our job is to restore things to the way they once looked, not to make them look new and perfect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/ed0a353a-fc57-4d03-b0c0-c2b9af24bde6/diamond-16.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1976 "Diamond in the Rough" Next step was to turn this over to Emily, the Dream Shop’s expert stitcher, and ask her to re-create the embroidery stitch around the edges as closely matched as possible to the other original elements on the shirt. I probably have 10 different shades of red embroidery thread that I keep on hand for this type of a project. We found one that was the closest match to the stitching that was around the original number four on the front and the Braves wordmark https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/7bcc6816-7794-4ae1-aa3b-1f267f51773a/diamond-17.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1976 "Diamond in the Rough" Here is the end result. I think he will agree that we did a pretty good job! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/c0eb690f-a391-4b0f-9e9a-a28f5c74aa23/diamond-18.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1976 "Diamond in the Rough" Performing a historic restoration like this carries some important responsibilities. Simply restoring the garment isn't enough. It requires a full authentication, as well as complete pictorial documentation of the restoration. I did both on this historic piece. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/959a6e61-381d-444e-ae07-e268994ae1f0/diamond-19.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1976 "Diamond in the Rough" I hope you enjoyed reading about this project, and it might give you hope that diamonds in the rough remain out there. So many of these old jerseys were re-purposed to the minor leagues that almost any minor league jersey you find for sale quite possibly has a major league baseball heritage hiding underneath. https://thedream.shop/gallery/restoration-1970s-plain-sight monthly 0.5 2026-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/92661e6c-93f9-4715-a95a-ec165998b7f7/sd-1.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1970s "Hiding In Plain Sight" As I worked with collectors who were deeply knowledgeable in their one favorite team, I started to learn the secret of these missing artifacts: these missing styles had all been sent to the minor leagues, had been completely stripped of their MLB identification, and then were mostly used into oblivion then often discarded. On this page I have shown you some restorations I have done on these MLB to Minor League Baseball hand me downs, bringing them back to their original glory. I usually focus on other people’s treasures, but this one is mine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/1d2bf4ef-0b46-40b8-ae12-6f0d4440f171/sd-2.jpeg Gallery - Restoration: 1970s "Hiding In Plain Sight" I’ll admit a soft spot for the San Diego Padres. Struggling to find their identity in their first years of existence in the early 1970s, the team changed their uniforms almost every year. They introduced screaming gold, uncommon brown, and then added their own bright orange into the MLB color palate. The team had no money to waste, constantly flirting with insolvency in their early years. They had only four minor league clubs in their farm system, and these clubs were the grateful recipients of all the Padres’ MLB hand me down gear— everything from pants to bases and balls. (Pages from my book, The Game Worn Guide to MLB Jerseys 1970-2020” https://gamewornguides.com/) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/e39656d9-4217-453e-b7e6-17ffae34e28a/sd-3.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1970s "Hiding In Plain Sight" For many years, my goal as a collector has been in trying to collect “one example of every jersey” each MLB team wore from 1972 to present. And the Padres were proving difficult. Search as I might, I could not find a single example of their 1974-1975 road gray jerseys. I had concluded that they simply did not exist any more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/002d1378-d0f6-4159-a80f-4f20e233ea94/sd-4.jpeg Gallery - Restoration: 1970s "Hiding In Plain Sight" Summer 2021, a friend contacted me and suggested I take a look at an auction on eBay. I can’t find all the auction photos now, as hard as I have looked, but I found this one. This jersey was simply listed for sale as a 1974 Alexandria Aces road jersey. “Could this be an elusive Padres 1974 road jersey?” He asked. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/8ccb6c27-46af-4ead-af6a-c44d8de48dae/sd-5.jpeg Gallery - Restoration: 1970s "Hiding In Plain Sight" This grainy photo of the tagging was what I needed to see. Minor league teams generally did not year tag their jerseys, rather, the jerseys came to them already tagged from the MLB parent that had used them previously. This tagging nomenclature matches the 1974 Padres jerseys in my book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/785b3231-0f19-4c0c-885e-6c3a4518f3b3/sd-6.jpeg Gallery - Restoration: 1970s "Hiding In Plain Sight" This Wikipedia search told me what I needed to know: in 1975 (the next year) the Padres had a minor league team in Alexandria, Louisiana called The Aces. Without asking any questions of the seller, I bid on it hoping to win and eventually did. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/80e490ae-436e-4f85-9f72-8563de6057b8/sd-7.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1970s "Hiding In Plain Sight" When I received it, I could tell that the “12” on the front that remained in good condition, and the trashed number 12 on the back were original to the jersey. The Aces wordmark had been sewn on clearly after something had been removed from the front, but it was so worn that I could not make out details that let me confirm its origin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/a7efd80a-16c8-406f-99ce-a651109bb29a/sd-8.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1970s "Hiding In Plain Sight" Removing the front script, it became immediately evident: The word “San Diego” had indeed been on there before! The clearest evidence was the burned in glue imprint of the center letter “D” in “Diego” that had been right on the button placket. As is often the case, this is a spot where the thickness of the cloth and the heat and pressure from the original heat press was the greatest, thus leaving an indelible mark. If you look closely, you can see the "D" outline on the photo on the prior page as well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/4b13db0a-5918-4502-80d2-9f4f9363918a/sd-9.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1970s "Hiding In Plain Sight" Luckily, I already had a recreation of the Padres road script, scanned from a rare original I had restored and authenticated some months before, and overlaying the template onto the jersey on the light table, I could see several other places where the San Diego lettering had been originally stitched, some 46 years ago. (at right, my cutting proof. Every order that goes through the shop gets a proof, even mine, no exceptions.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/f7d97252-56a4-4365-b780-1fa1366e9120/sd-10.jpeg Gallery - Restoration: 1970s "Hiding In Plain Sight" Searching the Padres Roster online, I was disappointed to learn that no roster-player wore #12 in 1974… but further research revealed that Jim Davenport, the former San Francisco Giants infielder, manager and fan favorite, had been a coach on the MLB Padres in 1974 and wore #12. Nicknamed “Peanut”, at 170 lbs., Jim’s diminutive stature was perfect for a size 40 jersey, and a search of other jerseys he had worn in his playing career proved that they were size 40s as well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/6de17ace-875c-49cc-9a97-8eda5538a7bf/sd-11.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1970s "Hiding In Plain Sight" This jersey was filthy— as minor league jerseys often are. It was probably washed 200 times in a commercial machine along with 50 other filthy uniforms, and the dirt compounded into the fabric with each wash. A hand scrub, then a long soak in a bucket of warm soapy water (Woolite and OxiClean powder is my magic formula) and then a machine wash brightened the garment considerably. It was ready to reletter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/0fa557b9-a6b4-4462-bade-cb9f2a341192/sd-12.jpeg Gallery - Restoration: 1970s "Hiding In Plain Sight" I cut and stitched a replacement San Diego wordmark. The original back numbers were truly awful, and I decided to replace them along with recreating a matching name on back for Davenport, in the Padres distinctive vertical arched style. The long name and the small jersey required some careful narrowing and tight spacing to make it fit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/c23c766b-293f-479c-bcff-a82c798b312d/sd-13.jpg Gallery - Restoration: 1970s "Hiding In Plain Sight" Here is the final product, ready to display. (I certainly can’t wear it… I last fit into a size 40 shirt in 8th grade) . So— what is the message here? If you are looking for an illusive MLB jersey as I was, find out who the team’s minor league affiliates were in the years immediately following, and search for game worn examples of these. There are a lot of MLB jerseys out there waiting to be restored, hiding in plain sight. As a coda to the story, I was contacted by the other person who had been bidding against me to win the same jersey on eBay, and learned he was a historian for the Alexandria Aces, and he had wanted the jersey for display in their archives.After telling him of my intent, I promised him I would take the removed lettering from the jersey and make him a reproduction 1975 Aces jersey for the museum. And I will do that. On to the next project! https://thedream.shop/gallery/authentication-1951-jackie-robinson monthly 0.5 2026-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/ed0bc47f-ad43-416d-9967-488eb04c7a12/jackie_thumb.png Gallery - Authentication: 1951 Jackie Robinson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/de88f89d-0506-4eb5-b2be-8d5ce1ad9963/jackie-1.jpg Gallery - Authentication: 1951 Jackie Robinson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/cb8095c8-d343-4a3c-8ab0-b6e62d927451/jackie-2.jpg Gallery - Authentication: 1951 Jackie Robinson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/c0e75814-1a9e-45d6-8bbe-1da434a36796/jackie-3.jpg Gallery - Authentication: 1951 Jackie Robinson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/7c7c9609-e52a-4d57-9450-d78b3d25fa1b/jackie-4.jpeg Gallery - Authentication: 1951 Jackie Robinson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/7967be5c-b21e-4e10-9f0b-e00a7dbb4675/jackie-5.jpeg Gallery - Authentication: 1951 Jackie Robinson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/6439d08e-0812-4afe-8785-ffab860d132c/jackie-6.jpeg Gallery - Authentication: 1951 Jackie Robinson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/4fe1932f-dd87-4732-bc61-6caee5169d21/jackie-7.jpg Gallery - Authentication: 1951 Jackie Robinson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/bfa2d15d-d5c6-40b6-9bf9-421644821bf2/jackie-8.jpg Gallery - Authentication: 1951 Jackie Robinson https://thedream.shop/gallery/authentication-1995-detroit-tigers-alan-trammell monthly 0.5 2026-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/c858887d-be92-43eb-b0c3-42faf3b0e76b/tigers-1.jpg Gallery - Authentication: 1995 Detroit Tigers Alan Trammell Collector Stephen K. was perusing jerseys for sale online when he stumbled on this Lakeland Tigers late 1990s jersey. It was generally the same style as the Tigers’ one-game 1995 alternate, except it had the Lakeland Tigers’ logo on the chest and smaller numbers on the back, along with a Minor League Baseball anniversary patch on the sleeve. But a faded tag, barely legible, was on the front below the Russell tag— which said it was a “Diamond Collection” jersey… Russell’s branding for authentic on-field MLB wear in the mid to late 90s. And while it’s true that a few minor league clubs wore jerseys with Diamond Collection tagging, most of these were repurposed MLB jerseys. He decided to take a gamble and bought it without asking too many questions. He figured that if it turned out to be a “nothing”, he could easily resell it the same way as he had purchased it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/309a2ad6-cf85-4381-9320-1d015b87f765/tigers-2.jpg Gallery - Authentication: 1995 Detroit Tigers Alan Trammell He wondered— could it be?? It’s only been comparatively very recently that MLB teams have stopped sending their hand-me-downs to the minors. I’d wager some teams may still do it somewhere, but not until the 1990s did MLB wake up to the collectability of its game used uniforms,. Then, in a complete reversal suddenly nearly everything began to go right from the playing field to the game-used shop. I’ll suggest that they went a bit too far, judging from the number of Mother’s Day and other crazy event jerseys that were going unsold in teams shops and on MLB.com recent years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/fe379b84-1752-473e-a603-ce36728c3139/tigers-3.jpg Gallery - Authentication: 1995 Detroit Tigers Alan Trammell The Tigers were a team that wasted nothing, and at the start of 1990s they were still sending their used jerseys and pants to the minors to be used and used until they were worn out and discarded. Besides being the Spring Training home of the MLB club, Lakeland Florida is home to the Class A Lakeland Tigers (since 2007 known as the Flying Tigers). The Lakeland Tigers wore uniforms in the 1990s that had a stylized variant of the big club’s gothic logo, except theirs was a Gothic “L” instead of the Detroit D. Tigers’ home jerseys were often repurposed in this way for them to use. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/d8367a58-cfde-4204-aa26-5cd23f0b9a15/tigers-4.jpg Gallery - Authentication: 1995 Detroit Tigers Alan Trammell The year was 1995. Hardcore Tigers fans know the story of the “one-game” 1995 Navy Blue alternates. I cover them in some detail in my book, and that’s my #40 jersey of pitcher Jose Lira at the top. ********* Closely resembling the team’s blue batting practice jerseys, they featured the jumping tiger alternate logo on the left chest. Orange/white/navy knit trim ringed each sleeve end. Player numbers were on the right chest and the back, and no player names were used. They were planned to be paired with special pinstriped pants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/f399debb-9ed1-4598-9913-974a04bc8ed5/tigers-5.jpg Gallery - Authentication: 1995 Detroit Tigers Alan Trammell These special uniforms should truly have been a surprise to no one. Apparently the team went through the formal process to submit to the league and have approved an alternate uniform for use in 1995. It described everything, including the pants. These jerseys were intended to be worn during Sunday home games. ********* Hard to see, but MLB’s 1995 internal style guide shows this jersey with its pinstriped pants. Note the narrow orange and white outlines around the logo, and the sleeve numbers that did not make the cut- though I doubt the jersey was intended to have three sets of numbers on it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/f86e5ea1-d08c-4c4e-a78d-fce6204604ae/tigers-6.jpg Gallery - Authentication: 1995 Detroit Tigers Alan Trammell However, on May 7, 1995, the very day they were supposed to be worn the first time, the senior management was surprised and displeased. They did not like the look, or the idea of jerseys without player names on back, according to an inside source, immediately before game time the team was ordered by team president John McHale to,“take off those clown pants” and wear their regular white pants instead. ****** And so these nice-looking jerseys were eliminated after only a single game. Now, normally, Jim Schmakel ,clubhouse equipment manager since 1978, would personally mark the manufacturer locker tag on the front of each game worn jersey with his initials, and the letter “G” signifying that the item was game worn. But not these jerseys. They had created such an unpleasant stir that they disappeared without a trace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/16d8092a-fc71-4934-930f-dcabbd26f5a9/tigers-7.jpeg Gallery - Authentication: 1995 Detroit Tigers Alan Trammell For their 25th anniversary, Baseball writer Jason Beck wrote a detailed story on these jerseys for which I was interviewed. You can read it here. https://www.mlb.com/news/featured/tigers-1995-blue-alternate-jerseys Excerpting from that article, Beck writes: “…Clubhouse manager Jim Schmakel, now in his 43rd year, saves every style of jersey the Tigers wear, from their traditional uniforms to special events to throwbacks. But he didn’t save the blue ones.“I never saw them again,” (club president) McHale said. “I don't know what happened. There didn't seem to be an enormous amount of affection to them.”“They might have burned them,” (TV analyst Jim) Price joked. What happened to them after that game is a mystery. But somehow, they ended up in the wild.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/fdac149d-2953-40f1-bca8-11ea79059a9a/tigers-8.jpg Gallery - Authentication: 1995 Detroit Tigers Alan Trammell Well, I was just lucky when I ended up with one. I purchased it from used equipment dealer Murf Denny back around 1997, as an oddity. I had never seen one before and I know I don’t pay very much for it. But I can honestly say in all my years of searching, while the retail sale authentic version of this jersey shows up on eBay every so often, and I’ve lettered a handful for customers, I’ve probably only seen two offered at auction. Here, this one was offered as a set of three of Lou Whittaker’s 1995 uniforms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/3c98d0d2-be5c-4022-a278-b7395263edc8/tigers-9.jpg Gallery - Authentication: 1995 Detroit Tigers Alan Trammell When he received it, he could see that the well-worn MLB tag had some printing on it, but it was so faded it was nearly impossible to make out. He sent it me and asked me to take a look at it. The first thing I did was to take a high resolution scan of the tagging and apply my Photoshop filters to it… and when I did, the writing popped right out. 95-3-42. That’s 1995, #3, size 42. As in #3 Alan Trammell… 20 years with the Tigers, 2017 Hall of Fame-Inductee Alan Trammell… are you kidding me? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/ad43ba31-70ad-44c5-b4a0-12b6895a63e2/tigers-10.jpg Gallery - Authentication: 1995 Detroit Tigers Alan Trammell The next step was to look for evidence that this had indeed been a 1995 Tigers jersey that had been converted to minor league use. I put it on the light table and I could see a few marks where the front crest had been sewn, but I could not see any evidence of old numbers being there. And, that didn’t really surprise me. Fabric ghosts and shadows come to exist mostly from repeated washings and uniform wear in the sun, left behind adhesive, plus the addition of years of time. In this case, we knew that if this had indeed been a Tigers jersey it was only ever worn and washed once in its original configuration. And things sewn on then nearly immediately removed twenty five years ago were not bound to have left a lot of marks. The current logo and numbers had been on there for a quarter century and the jerseys showed evidence of being worn and washed perhaps hundreds of times. This was going to take some sleuthing. ****** Click here to see a video clip that shows the evidence of front team crest history! https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/p8zh0q8jrj2kmqjyuf69o/15-Screen-Recording-2020-12-30-at-8.16.31-PM.mov?rlkey=9lq0kiwgagfq8kicm5h7kdbbm&e=1&dl=0 ****** The first thing we needed to do after taking exacting photos of the jersey in its minor league configuration was to strip it completely, then photograph it again on the light table, superimposing images of the proposed original numbers and team crest onto it, and see if we could find any points of intersection: holes, pulls and fading that matched what once may have been there a quarter century ago. ****** I carefully removed the numbers, the crest, and the sleeve patch and went back to the light table. Taking a series of photographs with different exposures and applying my photoshop filters I was indeed able to clearly see edges of where the original (smaller) Tigers crest had been sewn on the left front. I’ve highlighted the two outlines here in pink and blue. Stephen found a retail version of this jersey and sacrificed it for the restoration. I carefully removed the front “D” from the donor noting how tightly was stitched in place, the edge bound with a satin embroidery stitch. This method of attachment left ample pinholes to show where it came off. It neatly covered the original outline on the Lakeland jersey like the missing piece of a jigsaw puzzle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/c3103e52-9b66-4a1c-b147-60a9c503843e/tigers-11.jpg Gallery - Authentication: 1995 Detroit Tigers Alan Trammell The numbers were much more difficult to see, looking straight on I could see nothing clearly, but I found if I tipped the light table at a very sharp angle, I could see faint lines of where fabric threads had been compressed closer together with sewing machine stitching. I used a black-light pen to lightly mark those lines in the spots where I saw them, and behold— a pattern began to emerge. The number 3, centered on the jersey back, and in the proper size to match the team template! I did the same on the front, and there had been a 3 there as well, too. We had a positive match! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/47fc143f-b64b-4db1-a6ac-64489419bc4f/tigers-12.jpg Gallery - Authentication: 1995 Detroit Tigers Alan Trammell Using my own game jersey as a positive match for the sizes of the numbers back and front, I cut new ones. I stitched everything onto the historic jersey using the light table for placement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/885e9475-4ee7-4585-8039-8e32a17d942d/tigers-13.jpg Gallery - Authentication: 1995 Detroit Tigers Alan Trammell I fully documented the restoration and wrote up the authentication so that they next person looking at this on a light table would understand why there were ghosts of a 47 and a different team crest on the front. Without this step, the value of this historic jersey would possibly be lost. After all, who would believe that this wasn’t simply a Lakeland Tigers jersey converted to look like one belonging to a Hall of Fame player? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/0b81bca0-5799-43a7-8493-e13b0d17d9fd/tigers-14.jpg Gallery - Authentication: 1995 Detroit Tigers Alan Trammell Here it is completed- restored back to original. Stephen is justifiably pleased with his barn-find prize. And I am satisfied to have been able to help answer a question about “what happened to these Tigers jerseys after all?” So, keep your eyes open for diamonds in the rough like this one. Many minor league jerseys from the 1990s and before started life as MLB jerseys. On to the next project! https://thedream.shop/gallery/authentication-oklahoma-city-89ers monthly 0.5 2026-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/d86f69ae-8144-42c3-a0f5-0947a4069616/ok-1.jpg Gallery - Authentication: 1972 Indians Relettered as Oklahoma City 89ers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/43e328c3-9282-4f32-b697-5318fe76435b/ok-2.jpg Gallery - Authentication: 1972 Indians Relettered as Oklahoma City 89ers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/ee88c7c7-ef56-4e5b-a700-03f551a7f10d/ok-3.jpg Gallery - Authentication: 1972 Indians Relettered as Oklahoma City 89ers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/8804da0c-aa30-4d18-a53f-d982e8950671/ok-4.jpg Gallery - Authentication: 1972 Indians Relettered as Oklahoma City 89ers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/713cbd75-a6b4-4bba-9729-88be8b23554a/ok-5.jpg Gallery - Authentication: 1972 Indians Relettered as Oklahoma City 89ers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/c6c82b79-ab3d-411b-9c75-0bfc71e5f6b4/ok-6.jpg Gallery - Authentication: 1972 Indians Relettered as Oklahoma City 89ers https://thedream.shop/gallery/authentication-1978-mets-nelson-briles monthly 0.5 2026-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/e899b017-9d17-499f-8bae-d962d94ad6f0/snl-1.jpg Gallery - Authentication: 1978 Mets Nelson Briles There’s a first for everything. Collector Robert Loglisci is a bona fide Mike Scott fan. Over the past couple of years he has been diligently trying to find game worn jerseys that Mike wore while pitching throughout his career for the Mets and Astros. Some of his finds have been in perfect, original condition, but most were sent to the minor leagues or reused again in spring training and needed some work, which I helped with. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/c8dc7e3e-6502-4c2b-a822-29cf1025ddd9/snl-2.jpg Gallery - Authentication: 1978 Mets Nelson Briles Mike Scott was drafted by the Mets in 1976 and toiled in the minor leagues during 1977 and 1978 before being called up to the big club for the start of the 1979 season. Robert is quite good with research and was able to locate press photos and spring training rosters that showed that Scott wore number 59 in his first couple of big league spring training invitations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/4c39c7e6-2ef2-46e1-b3c0-ceca63e7de6d/snl-3.jpg Gallery - Authentication: 1978 Mets Nelson Briles For any player who might have a chance of being called up during the season, the team typically will make a set of jerseys for him that he uses in spring training and they generally would be issued for use if a call up happens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/5d06b30d-cb06-40d7-b418-a3c09c79e233/snl-4.jpg Gallery - Authentication: 1978 Mets Nelson Briles Robert found this team tagged 1978 Mets home jersey with number 59 on it, he happily assumed he had found Mike Scott’s spring training jersey from 1978. He asked me to authenticate it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/24901d11-002e-4cc2-9df5-25a8e2093d78/snl-5.jpg Gallery - Authentication: 1978 Mets Nelson Briles There’s one important thing to know about spring training: the team will wear their prior years uniforms there, being issued their new set for the season on opening day. Therefore in spring training of 1978, Mike Scott would have worn a 1977-tagged jersey. I quickly determined that this jersey Robert had found must be from 1979 spring training. I asked him if his research had uncovered anything about what Scott wore in the Spring prior to the start of the 1979 season. Searching Baseball Almanac’s records we learned Mike Scott was wearing number 30 when he started the season with the major league Mets squad in April 1979. I reasoned that he probably was wearing number 30 during 1979 Spring training as well. Notice that the jersey being worn in this picture is the button front style without the blue and orange trim on the sleeve ends and around the neck. This is clearly an earlier season jersey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/e7b4ba62-6c2f-4234-a351-0387eb616140/snl-6.jpg Gallery - Authentication: 1978 Mets Nelson Briles A little more research showed that Scott was indeed wearing number 30 in 1979 spring training. Looking at the Mets roster for 1979 nobody was issued number 59. Therefore, this wasn’t Mike Scott's jersey. We thought that the story had ended at this point, but did it? Curious, Robert again went back to the spring training records and found that pitcher Nelson Briles had been invited to spring training after having been released from the Baltimore Orioles after the prior season . Briles was nearing the end of a notable 14-year career where he had won 129 games for the Cardinals, Pirates, Rangers, Royals and Orioles. After being released by the Orioles at the end of the 1978 season, he joined the Mets for 1979 Spring Training— and we located his name and number at the very bottom of the team roster in April showing him as a non-roster player. Searching Briles’ Wikipedia page we learned that he was indeed cut by the Mets in April, effectively ending his major league baseball career. Who could hope to find a picture of him wearing this uniform with such a brief appearance on the Mets in the preseason? And that should’ve been the end of the story. But the Internet is a wonderful thing… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/29b4de55-66c6-4287-a608-c9dd4abfb6d2/snl-7.jpg Gallery - Authentication: 1978 Mets Nelson Briles Searching for information on Briles in 1979 uncovered that he was featured in a Saturday night live skit that has become very famous over time, The Chico Escuela (“Beiseball been berry berry good to me”) sketch where comedian Garrett Morris, playing fictional Dominican baseball player Chico Escuela was trying to make a comeback on the Mets after having written a damaging tell-all book called “Bad Stuff ‘Bout the Mets”. The sketch is well remembered, as players on the Mets are interviewed saying that they could never forgive him for writing such a book and that he was dead to them. Briles was one of the players featured in this video, and in two scenes it is obvious that he is wearing the jersey that I now held in my hands. Garrett Morris has said that this is one of his favorite SNL moments. A link to the SNL video is here: https://x.com/i/status/1469072174036271107 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/eac86104-e48c-4299-b773-aa720c6e2583/snl-8.jpg Gallery - Authentication: 1978 Mets Nelson Briles Robert was also able to locate a late spring training team photo of the Mets where Nelson Briles can be seen sitting with the other players, and again the alignment of the pinstripes with the stitched on elements on his jersey indicate that he is indeed wearing the same jersey that I was evaluating today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/28fedd63-f94f-46c7-8150-6b1c78d9da3b/snl-9.jpg Gallery - Authentication: 1978 Mets Nelson Briles So there you have it, pitcher Nelson Briles’ final major league baseball jersey, authenticated with the aid of Saturday Night Live and the fictional Chico Escuela. Baseball is berry berry good, indeed. Here is a copy of the complete two-page letter of opinion so you can read it if you'd like. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6035438d1280ee7094e72dd1/d27d5646-6266-41dd-a121-e76928ba1f37/snl-10.jpg Gallery - Authentication: 1978 Mets Nelson Briles Here is a copy of the complete two-page letter of opinion so you can read it if you'd like. (page 2)