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Thread: Flannel Jersey Set 7
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06-06-2010, 09:32 PM #1
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Flannel Jersey Set 7
I have a general question. When a home jersey is labeled "set 7", does that mean he was issued (at least) 7 home jerseys that year? If so, why so many?
Below is an example. I am NOT questioning whether this jersey is authentic, as the seller has an impeccable reputation. What I am curious about is the whole set 7 thing.
Thanks.
http://www.lelands.com/Auction.aspx/...me-Used-Jersey
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06-06-2010, 10:32 PM #2
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Re: Flannel Jersey Set 7
I would have a hard time believing they where issued 7 home jersey's back in 1967. Keep in mind that it could be possible but I have never seen it myself.
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06-07-2010, 01:50 PM #3
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Re: Flannel Jersey Set 7
- I'm not certain how many or how the Twins issued gamers in 1967, but this isn't the first high set number I've seen from the Twins that season. I have seen a '67 home of pitcher Al Worthington that was some unusually high set number for the era (6,7, or 8; I'm not sure which). If a common player like Worthington can have this, I see no reason why a star such as Oliva couldn't.
Dave Miedema
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06-07-2010, 08:07 PM #4
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Re: Flannel Jersey Set 7
Hi Dave,
Thanks for your thoughts, I was hoping you'd join this thread. Your theory sounds plausible, but then wouldn't that hold true for 1965, 1969, and 1970, too, when the Twins did make the post-season?
Calvin Griffith wasn't known as a guy who would see the need to give his players 7 sets of jerseys... in fact, most Twins jerseys that hit the market have number changes because they went down to the minors, to get every bit of functional use out of them.
I'd always though, in the flannel era, that players generally were issued 2 sets of jerseys, 2 home and 2 road, and that star players sometimes also got a third set. So, my theory (and like Dave, I'm just throwing this out,) is that a Set 7 does not necessarily imply there were sets 1,2,3,4,5,6.
I wonder if Sets 1 and 2 were issued as usual, and then a third set was made up (perhaps anticipating post-season use, as Dave suggests,) and they just called it Set 7. Maybe to distinguish it from regular-season shirts. Why 7? Maybe because, aside from "1" it's the easiest number to stitch. Or maybe a reference to 1967? Or an anticipated 7 World Series games?
Anyone have any thoughts on this, please post. Thanks!!
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06-08-2010, 11:57 AM #5