1983 Toronto Blue Jays Jim Clancy jersey

[kingjammy24]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=200377400098

pretty painful stuff.

1) team logo is incorrect. bj bird ends up looking like a toucan with an abnormally large beak and the red "seams" on the baseball differ from the real logo.

2) embroidery on the strip tag is unlike anything ever used by wilson. ever.

3) the NOB font on the back unlike anything ever used by the jays. ever.

real jersey on left, ebay jersey on the right:



rudy.

[flaco1801]

ive never seen a set/strip tag that precise

[gingi79]

At least the back numbers are right.....oh wait the #8 is like an inch shorter than the #1.

This jersey is just wrong.

[ziggy]

What did the seller say?

Someone went all out on creating those letters for CLANCY...It has a cool look but definitely not real

[skipcarayislegend]

Someone went all out on creating those letters for CLANCY.

I was thinking the same thing, that somebody would fake a jersey of Jim Clancy of all people. Are Jays shirts from that era so tough that it's worth counterfeiting Jim Clancy uniforms? That's some frightening stuff, if so.

[sox83cubs84]

I was thinking the same thing, that somebody would fake a jersey of Jim Clancy of all people. Are Jays shirts from that era so tough that it's worth counterfeiting Jim Clancy uniforms? That's some frightening stuff, if so.

Back until the late 1990s, Blue Jays jersey were considered by many to be the toughest of all MLB teams to find game jerseys of. Given the scarcity and the prices of the era ($300 Blue Jays commons in an era where most teams' commons were about half of that), faking a Jim Clancy wouldn't have been that far-fetched. A few years after that, some bogus 1987 Jays jerseys hit the market, and while one was a young star (Fred McGriff), another was a Lloyd Moseby...not a big name outside Toronto.

Dave M.
Chicago area