Consign Your Best Items with Lelands. We Also Pay Cash on the Spot! Learn More Here.
1968 Gil Hodges First Ever as a Manager New York Mets Game Worn Jersey (Photo-Matched LOA)
<p>From Gil Hodges' days with the Mets in New York comes this outstanding game worn jersey. <span style="font-size: 10pt;">Remarkable Spalding jersey is complete with all manufacturers tagging including size "44" tag, wash instructions and "Set 1 1967" flag on the front tail along with a felt "44-67-44" swatch in the collar. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Pin striped home jersey features the famous Mets insignia (restored) and "14" on the front with a Mets skyline logo on the left sleeve and an oversized "14" on the reverse; all in blue felt on orange tackle twill. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 48px; font-size: 10pt;">Repurposed and issued to Hodges in the spring of 1968, this jersey was originally worn by Al Schmelz, a pitcher on the 1967 roster. </span><span style="text-indent: 48px; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Since Schmelz </span><span style="text-indent: 48px; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and Hodges both wore the same size 44 and the jersey was lightly used and relatively new at the time, one of the "4s" in "44" was replaced with a "1" making it a Gil Hodges number "14" jersey. </span><span style="background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 48px; font-size: small; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Jersey shows fine use and features numerous signs of wear including stains in the ventilated arm pits, pulls, a few thins spots and dirt stains on the back. C</span><span style="background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 48px; font-size: small; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">omes with </span><span style="text-indent: 48px; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Photomatch.com letter.</span></p>
Past Sports Card, Memorabilia, Non-Sports Card and Collecitble Auction Items
Other past auction items that may be of interest to you.
Circa 1926 Rare Official National League Baseball in Box.
1940's St. Louis Browns Player's Jacket
1974 Jim "Catfish" Hunter Game Worn Glove
1979 Bruce Sutter Game Worn Cap & Spikes
1994 Barry Bonds Game Worn Batting Helmet
2001 Rickey Henderson Game Worn Glove
2001 Rickey Henderson 3,000 Hit Game Worn Batting Helmet
