The Shirt Off My Back: Vol. 1 No. 19 by Dave Miedema

TEAM SALES + CHARITY AUCTIONS = RELIABILITY? Many sports organizations in all three major leagues regularly sell game-used items to fans and collectors via multiple means. Stadium sales, souvenir stands, off-season conventions, and the like give people a chance to...

The Shirt Off My Back: Vol. 1 No. 19 by Dave Miedema

TEAM SALES + CHARITY AUCTIONS = RELIABILITY? Many sports organizations in all three major leagues regularly sell game-used items to fans and collectors via multiple means. Stadium sales, souvenir stands, off-season conventions, and the like give people a chance to...

The Shirt Off My Back: Vol. 1 No. 18 by Dave Miedema

Athletes often deliver comments about their views on the authenticity of jerseys, bats, and the like that are presented to them by collectors for autographing or viewing. And, while one would think that a ballplayer would be able to identify one of their old shirts or...

The Shirt Off My Back: Vol. 1 No. 18 by Dave Miedema

Athletes often deliver comments about their views on the authenticity of jerseys, bats, and the like that are presented to them by collectors for autographing or viewing. And, while one would think that a ballplayer would be able to identify one of their old shirts or...

The Shirt Off My Back: Vol. 1 No. 17 by Dave Miedema

I have yet to see a game-worn example of the Chicago Bears’ orange alternate jerseys on the game-used market yet. The team introduced them in 2005, in a win over San Francisco, and trotted out the 2006 edition the Sunday before Hallowe’en, again besting...

The Shirt Off My Back: Vol. 1 No. 17 by Dave Miedema

I have yet to see a game-worn example of the Chicago Bears’ orange alternate jerseys on the game-used market yet. The team introduced them in 2005, in a win over San Francisco, and trotted out the 2006 edition the Sunday before Hallowe’en, again besting...

The Shirt Off My Back: Vol. 1 No. 16 by Dave Miedema

SLEEVE LOGO EVOLUTION: Since 1987 in Major League Baseball, and 1990 in the NFL, member teams have added manufacturer sleeve insignias, sometimes called “TV logos”, to game jerseys as a means of providing advertising to officially contracted uniform...

The Shirt Off My Back: Vol. 1 No. 16 by Dave Miedema

SLEEVE LOGO EVOLUTION: Since 1987 in Major League Baseball, and 1990 in the NFL, member teams have added manufacturer sleeve insignias, sometimes called “TV logos”, to game jerseys as a means of providing advertising to officially contracted uniform...

The Shirt Off My Back: Vol. 1 No. 15 by Dave Miedema

Fans of any length of time of Major league Baseball will recall the devastating work stoppage of 1994-95, which cancelled the 1994 World Series, began the decline and fall of Major League ball in Montreal (the opinion of some), and made pariahs for years out of...

The Shirt Off My Back: Vol. 1 No. 15 by Dave Miedema

Fans of any length of time of Major league Baseball will recall the devastating work stoppage of 1994-95, which cancelled the 1994 World Series, began the decline and fall of Major League ball in Montreal (the opinion of some), and made pariahs for years out of...