Mets Jersey and Other Baseball Fashions Thread

[Guest The Second Spitter]

I'm wondering about the validity of this jersey:



When did the Mets wear St. Patrick's Day jerseys in 1985? (Spring Training?)

And was Doc pitching that day?

[seawolf17]

They've done green jerseys for March 17 games as long as I can remember, actually. I recall catching a game as a kid and being very confused. Whether or not he pitched, he would have worn it in the dugout.

[Guest The Second Spitter]

seawolf17 wrote: They've done green jerseys for March 17 games as long as I can remember, actually. I recall catching a game as a kid and being very confused. Whether or not he pitched, he would have worn it in the dugout.

But March 17 would spring training, no? I just find it hard to believe they'd release a special jersey for a ST game. Besides, in ST games aren't players names omitted from the jersey?

[Benjamin Grimm]

Yes, it's always spring training, and they've been wearing the green for many years?

Why so hard to believe? Even though it's only spring training, it gives them a chance to sell green caps and jerseys.

[G-Fafif]

Many teams have done this for St. Patrick's Day. They don't want any trouble from Big Irish.

[Guest The Second Spitter]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Why so hard to believe? Even though it's only spring training, it gives them a chance to sell green caps and jerseys.

Well, because ST games don't exactly reach a large audience. But thanks for the clarification guys. At least, now I understand why I was oblivious to them. But it still seems peculiar that M&N would choose to resurrect them as part of their throwback range, unless they have some sort of cult following that I'm unaware of.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Maybe I'm mistaken but I think it's been awhile since the Mets carried on that tradition. They've played with green-billed caps on STPD but I think that's it.

[Guest Edgy DC]

The Second Spitter wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: Why so hard to believe? Even though it's only spring training, it gives them a chance to sell green caps and jerseys. Well, because ST games don't exactly reach a large audience. But thanks for the clarification guys. At least, now I understand why I was oblivious to them. But it still seems peculiar that M&N would choose to resurrect them as part of their throwback range, unless they have some sort of cult following that I'm unaware of.

You'd be surprised what kind of audience these things get. The first team to come out in green on St. Patrick's Day was the Reds, interestnigly enough. Bob Murphy, of all people, would joke about it, how they'd always make like it was a surprise, but after two or three years, nobody was surprised.

But for some teams, particuarly those in the Northeast corridor of the US, enterprising merchandisers have learned there's a large overlap of folks with pride in their team and pride in their heritage, and where that overlap lies, money is waiting to be spent.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Catch the right early-season game, and you'll eye more than a handful of the greenies visible in the Citi stands. (A lot of Murphs and Francoeurs last year... I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'.)

[metirish]

I've seen plenty of decidedly not Irish looking people wearing those jerseys , pretty big with the hip-hoppers.......the Knicks feature a green St. Patrick's jersey too.

[TransMonk]

I have a green mets cap with a shamrock on the back. It is my favorite Mets cap and I wear it quite often.

It lets people know that I am a Mets fan who sunburns easily.

http://shop.mlb.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3322780

[Guest Edgy DC]

A cutiepie showed up at the MOFo picnic in one of those shamrock hats.

Turned out to be the future Missus Lunchbucket.

Grrr...

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

That hat was an Irish Nite givaway. The game was the one when Agbayani gave the ball away. Black 47 concert afterward.

[Guest The Second Spitter]

does anybody know the first year that the Mets made authentic jerseys commercially available for purchase?

[Guest The Second Spitter]

Thought I'd catalogue my baseball Jerseys

Mets Jerseys:

Throwbacks
1909 New York Metropolitans � Road Grey/Blue No Name/No Number
1983 Solid Royal � Seaver/41
1985 St.Patricks Day Jersey � Gooden/16
1986 Home Pinstripe � Strawberry/18 (Lost/replaced)
1987 Road Grey � Hernandez/17

Regular
1999 - Snow White � Bonilla/25 (Lost)
2000 - Home Black � Alfonzo/13
2002 - Home Snow White � Piazza/31 � (40 year anniversary patch)
2005 � Road Grey � Martinez/45
2006 � Home Pinstripe � Beltran/15
2007 � Road Black � Delgado/21
2007 � Civil Rights Game Jersey � No Name/7 � (Reyes game worn)
2008 � Home Black � Santana/57 � Shea Stadium patch
2009 � 1883 New York Gothams style � No name/20 (HoJo game worn).
2010 � 1948 New York Cubans style � No name/49

Non-Mets Jerseys:

1982 � Montreal Expos - Road Powder Blue � Dawson/10
1984 � Montreal Expos - Home White - Carter/8
2009 - Baltimore Orioles � Home White - Markakis/ 21

College Jerseys:

McGill U Redbirds 30
U.Sydney Cynics 13
UNSW Lions 13
UNSW Lions 53