Team,

Years ago I was walking through the very first "National" at the Cleveland I-X Center when I spotted a dealer going out of business. I asked him if he had any A's jerseys for sale and he pulled out a '74 green Joe Rudi. The jersey was in impeccable condition. I promptly paid $275.00 for it. I had it in my collection for years when I decided to sell my entire collection in a bulk sale to an A's collector on the west coast. I stopped collecting for about two years when I got this incredible "itch" to start collecting A's jerseys again. I bought back most of my entire collection, but the collector had sold the Rudi. I tracked it down to a hell of a nice guy in WI. I was able to get the jersey back for over 10x what I had originally paid for it at the National. It is my favorite jersey in the 50+ collection of A's jerseys (1968 - 1980).

Mark