Deadspin has a picture. Erin Andrews is a good reporter who also happens to be very eye-catching, but it’s never good when the reporter becomes the news.

Maybe that can be a future uniwatch topic…the clothes of sideline reporters through the years.

nick said:

fiesta said:

What an odd eBay scam. Minneapolis (along with the state of Minnesota) is only celebrating its sesquicentennial this year, having achieved statehood (and cityhood) in 1858. Certainly not 1768.

Nice looking flannel, though.

I believe that it is VERY UNFAIR to call this item an Ebay Scam …..

The jersey came from somewhere !!! It would have cost MUCH MORE than the $250.00 sale price to manufacture this jersey. Given the tag and the fabric it would be IMPOSSIBLE to scam the item and create it for a sale.

My educated guess that the Ebay seller – who I do not know – is selling the jersey in good faith as a gamer.

I believe that it PROBABLY WAS a 1968 gamer – maybe for the Twins, maybe for a local minor league team in Minn., as I saw a very similar style full uniform on sale through Ebay 2-3 years ago worn by the minor league Denver Bears celebrating a similar anniversary, with the date of the year on the chest. That uniform had a very similar styling and would have cost thousands to manufacture.

Nonetheless, this 1768 jersey is a very RARE piece probably worth every penny – finding the provenance of the jersey should be the least of anyone’s problems.

Nick, are you the person selling the jersey?

Jose –

No I am not the person selling the jersey. I have no idea who the person is. It is just very difficult to believe that such a jersey, with vintage material and tagging, could be a fraud. Perhaps it is a minor league or club team jersey, but my doubts that it is such stem from the expense involved with producing the jersey.

- Nick

Giancarlo said:

I’m guessing the Ojibway wore the 1768 jerseys and the Mdewakantons wore their visiting alternates.

…hilarious! Was that game in the Lakota League Central?

I’m with Ricko on this though – it for some uber-obscure reason it is associated with the Twins (again 1968 would be more logical) it would have to be the first TBTC baseball uni, which would now make it a turnback the turnbacks jersey. I’m sure that Dr. Emmit Brown and Marty McFly were involved.

Cheers to the Twins win over the ChiSox tonight – some guys were arguing in the bar about when the Twins started wearing the navy blue unis with “Twins” across the chest in lieu of the “Minnesota” similar to the road grays. I couldn’t come up with the answer…

The alts were introduced in 1997 with the road blue “Minnesota” and the home RED “Twins”. The Red Alts were a dismal failure, only being worn twice and were replaced the following year, 1998, by the blue home “Twins” version.

Carl said:

Giancarlo said:

I’m guessing the Ojibway wore the 1768 jerseys and the Mdewakantons wore their visiting alternates.

…hilarious! Was that game in the Lakota League Central?

I’m with Ricko on this though – it for some uber-obscure reason it is associated with the Twins (again 1968 would be more logical) it would have to be the first TBTC baseball uni, which would now make it a turnback the turnbacks jersey. I’m sure that Dr. Emmit Brown and Marty McFly were involved.

Cheers to the Twins win over the ChiSox tonight – some guys were arguing in the bar about when the Twins started wearing the navy blue unis with “Twins” across the chest in lieu of the “Minnesota” similar to the road grays. I couldn’t come up with the answer…

Twins have two different Navy gamers. “Twins” (red w/white edge) at home, “MINNESOTA” (white w/red edge) on the road.

I think they’re one of the few with both home & road alts. Maybe the only ones? Dunno for sure.

…yea, that’s what was being discuss only no one knew when the home alt (blue w/ Twins) came about…

LI Phil said:

from the ‘how to field a ground ball’ section of your fielding 101 manual:

legs bent? check
glove open? check
top hand ready to trap errant hop? check
eyes closed? check

wait…what?

All this effort for a foul ball? check

wait… what? Damn it!

Well, other than this looks like it was a throw to third base after a passed ball instead of a foul ground ball, these comments are spot on. And the fielder has his pants cuffs clear down under his heels so he’s obviously not concerned about looking good on the field, so having his eyes closed in the picture shouldn’t be a big deal.

No, THESE are perfect stirrups!

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Those are outstanding!!

The low-riding number problem is out in full force, thuogh. Check out the massive space above number 10 here.

And the Detroit players have to blouse their jerseys out in the back to prevent the number from riding far too low.

How hard can this be? Measure four or five inches from the top of the collar. This is discrimination against non-immense athletes! Anyone got any photos of the backs of the 5′3″ Freddie Patek or Craig Grebeck? I bet even they didn’t look as badly-centered as today’s players.

Giancarlo said:

I’m guessing the Ojibway wore the 1768 jerseys and the Mdewakantons wore their visiting alternates.

…hilarious! Was that game in the Lakota League Central?

I’m with Ricko on this though – it for some uber-obscure reason it is associated with the Twins (again 1968 would be more logical) it would have to be the first TBTC baseball uni, which would now make it a turnback the turnbacks jersey. I’m sure that Dr. Emmit Brown and Marty McFly were involved.

Cheers to the Twins win over the ChiSox tonight – some guys were arguing in the bar about when the Twins started wearing the navy blue unis with “Twins” across the chest in lieu of the “Minnesota” similar to the road grays. I couldn’t come up with the answer…

Twins have two different Navy gamers. “Twins” (red w/white edge) at home, “MINNESOTA” (white w/red edge) on the road.

I think they’re one of the few with both home & road alts. Maybe the only ones? Dunno for sure.

stannate said:

Memphis had a pretty ugly CFL uniform, but the Birmingham Barracudas were worse, simply for incorporating teal:

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Paul, you may wish to check out this set of photos of a Memphis Mad Dogs’ commemorative t-shirt and keychain I bought during a visit to Memphis in 1995. Don’t ask why I’ve kept these items for 13 years, because I can’t give a coherent answer:

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The best part of that road trip story is that you were driving an AMC!

/first car:81 AMC Spirit

1983 AMC Concord, broken A/C, AM-only radio, driving through Iowa and Missouri and Arkansas and Tennessee in August. I discovered new places to sweat on my body.

So I popped open my Hockey News this week, and the contents page showed Brian Rolston’s nameplate being applied,”

Uggghhhhh! Looks like the names are pre-fabricated on a transfer paper then applied to a nameplate that appears to be already attached to the jersey…this makes no sense! Not only does this defeat the purpose of a nameplate, it saddens me that the names are not placed by hand any more. Where is the pride in the craft?

Thanks to RBK taking over the jerseys, they now sell two types of customization on the replica jerseys. They have the authentic sewn numbers and letters, and the heat pressed. It’s stupid, and it looks like crap. No worries, though, the on-ice and authentics will still be all sewn.