1980's USA Baseball........help, please?

[GSUTim47]

Hello, all......
My name is Tim Metcalf, and I am the Asst. Athletics Compliance Director for Georgia Southern University. Our previous head baseball coach, Jack Stallings, served as coach on several "USA Baseball" teams during the 1980's, including the 1983 Pan Am Games, in Venezuela, the 1984 Baseball World Tournament in Havana, Cuba, and the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Coach Stallings kept several of the uniforms from those competitions to use for GSU baseball, and while a lot of those uniforms have been discarded, an assistant coach and I found what was "left" in the attic of the baseball equipment room a couple of months ago. While I know the origins of a couple of these jerseys.....the blue # 36 is Drew Hall, an alternate in LA/'84, and the red # 10 is Gary Green, who particiapted in LA/'84....there are several sets that I don't know much about. Can these be LA/'84 warm-ups? BP jerseys? Are the ones that are different styles, but still Rawlings, be from from 1983/Venezuela? 84/Havana? Are the Mizunos from a different competition I don't know about?

Any help anyone can give would be greatly appreciated; Coach Stallings was as much help as he could be, but he has travelled a LOT of miles in the last 50 years......!? ;)

I will attach photos ASAP....

Thanks!

Tim

[GSUTim47]

To see photos, go here:

http://georgiasouthern.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2037619&l=985a9&id=33018239

:)

[www.jerseydave.com]

Try this guy, not sure if he can help but he has helped/answered alot for me concerning uSA Baseball.

davidperkins@usabaseball.com


On a side not, are these jerseys going to be put up for sale?

Good luck with your info hunt..

David.
www.jerseydave.com (http://www.jerseydave.com)

[GSUTim47]

Thanks, Dave...........I'll give him a buzz!

And, yes..........the coaches want to sell them, once we have figured out "what we have?" ;)

Tim

[GSUTim47]

These are the jerseys I have; David Perkins has helped some, but I'm still looking for more info. I spoke with Will Clark (yes, THE Will Clark), and he offered some info on the blue jerseys, as he said they were used in 1984 as batting practice jerseys. He said some of the others were possibly used as worn to team gatherings or promotional events.

[GSUTim47]

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[ballofbases@hotmail.com]

Tim,

Great looking jersey's! What's your email? I would like to talk to you a little more about them. Thanks!

Michael
Ballofbases@Hotmail.com

[GSUTim47]

Hollywoodfallguy@yahoo.com

Tim

[GSUTim47]

FYI....the photos shown are an example of each "type" of jersey I have; I actually have over 130 USA jerseys...see photo below. Also included is a coaches photo from the 1980's.

T

[flaco1801]

good morning tim...... great jerseys... i have a red rawlings with no patches, number 11, below the tag the name hoover is written with a sharpie, any of your jerseys have names written on them???.. id love a blue one when your ready to sell them sincerely, jeff

[GSUTim47]

Hey, Jeff!

When these jerseys were found in the attic of the equipment room, there were several jerseys with names on them; what I/the coaches decided to do was to try and track down anyone who was on the 1984 USA team whose jersey we knew we had, and try to get those players the jerseys. Most of the ones with names on them were blue, including a "Hoover," and I sent him his. I also sent out Rod Dedeaux's jersey to his son in LA, Flavio Alfario's jersey to Sacramento, plus Don August, Gary Green, Art Mazmanian, etc.

There were originally red, white and blue jerseys brought back to GSU by Coach Stallings. Most of the blue and white ones were "re-furbished" and used by GSU as "EAGLES" jerseys during the early 1990's; in fact, if you see a picture of the 1990 College WS team, you see the old white Team USA/1984 Olympic jerseys being worn. What I have is mostly red....as UGA is red, and GSU couldn't re-use the red jerseys!? :)

[flaco1801]

thanks tim... id love a red with the patches on both sleeves smaller size,(40-42) when your ready to part with them, sincerely, jeff

[GSUTim47]

I wanted to thank everyone for e-mailing me with info and photos to help in my research...if anyone has any questions, suggestions, or comments, please write!! Thanks again!

Tim
"hollywoodfallguy@yahoo.com"

[GSUTim47]

A quick note; www.collegejersey.com has the first "set" of these up for sale for me; twenty-three "Mizunos" are up currently!?

Tim

[GSUTim47]

All: I'm sending a set of these jerseys to MEARS to sell during their December auction; take a look when it is up and running!?

T