Canseco 88 WS Jersey!!!!! need opinions ASAP

[mailman93]

Re: Canseco 88 WS Jersey!!!!! need opinions ASAP

I think it all depends what you collect. I prefer jerseys . I would rather have the world series jersey, which I have the home 1988 . the ball would of been nice, I just don't like how he said he wouldn't end the auction and then he did. oh well, what can you do.

[mailman93]

Re: Canseco 88 WS Jersey!!!!! need opinions ASAP

I was bidding on that 89 world series jersey awhile ago. it was at $3000 and i said no way Jose. way too much for my liking. I think the 1990 ws jersey went for $2500 a few years ago. they do go for alot. it all depends what you think its worth.

[CansecoPower33]

Re: Canseco 88 WS Jersey!!!!! need opinions ASAP

I'd go to that price for a World Series jersey, especially the 1988.

[mailman93]

Re: Canseco 88 WS Jersey!!!!! need opinions ASAP

those prices were in major auction houses, that price is minus the hammer fee plus eveything else. I paid alot less for my 1988 world series jersey, and my 2000 road yankees world series jersey. plus I didn't have to pay anything extra. I have a question,either a world series jersey or a rookie jersey of Canseco? my choice is the rookie jersey. if you guys want to check out my jerseys, just go to webshots.com and look under LEAFS93. thanks Dan

[CansecoPower33]

Re: Canseco 88 WS Jersey!!!!! need opinions ASAP

WOW!! If ever you're selling, please let me know. Your collection is simply amazing.

[mailman93]

Re: Canseco 88 WS Jersey!!!!! need opinions ASAP

thanks alot. it took me years to build up that collection. I have 2 more on the way. I picked up the home and road blue jays jersey. so I have the trio with the home, away, and the alternate. I live in Toronto, so those jerseys are alittle special for me. thanks Dan

[kingjammy24]

Re: Canseco 88 WS Jersey!!!!! need opinions ASAP

those pics were from my photo library. both look like really nice shirts.

it's a curious thing how canseco gamers still fetch a substantial price despite the steroid admissions and how his career turned out.

dan, i take it you didn't bid on the '88 WS shirt on ebay? do you think canseco used 2 home jerseys during the '88 series? (on webshots you've got a road jersey labeled as a 1991 but the flag tag seems to read 1990.)which of the shirts on webshots were obtained directly from canseco?

when choosing between jerseys, the most important point for me is the amount of use. i'd take a regular season gamer that's hammered over a jersey that was used for only 3 or 4 world series games. (as far as i know, the a's took their regular season jerseys into the world series in '88, '89, and '90 so most of those a's world series gamers should also show considerable use from the regular season which is a nice bonus.)
to answer the WS vs rookie gamer question, i'd take whichever one showed more use. if there was a regular season gamer of his that was more heavily used than either the rookie jersey or WS gamer, then i'd take the regular season one. if the WS shirt and the rookie shirt showed equal use, i'd take the WS shirt. ideally i want a shirt from the pinnacle of an athlete's career and canseco was bigger in 1989 than he was in 1986. (no steroid pun intended).

rudy.

[mailman93]

Re: Canseco 88 WS Jersey!!!!! need opinions ASAP

Hey Rudy, I didn't bid on the 88 world series jersey on ebay. I didn't like how its framed, also you cant see the tagging. another thing i noticed was the inscription on the jersey. its say 1988 game jersey, and then he puts all the things he did that year. he put 88 world series at the end. I was thinking if it was a world series jersey, Jose would put 1988 world series game jersey. its werid. the jersey looks good, but i don't think its a world series jersey. on my webshots, the road jersey is 1991. the tag is set 1 1991. I also got the pants. I've gotten 4 jerseys from Jose. I got the road rookie uniform, TBTC rangers uniform, alternate blue jays uniform , and a home white sox. I also picked the blue jays dugout jersey from him. I also love jerseys that show alot of wear, sometimes its tough to find on baseball gamers. you make some good points Rudy. some of his jerseys still comand alot, its very werid. thanks Dan

[JasonM33]

Re: Canseco 88 WS Jersey!!!!! need opinions ASAP

those pics were from my photo library. both look like really nice shirts.

it's a curious thing how canseco gamers still fetch a substantial price despite the steroid admissions and how his career turned out.

Thanks for posting the pics. I sure hope another 89 World Series jersey shows up on the market some day. I'd kill for one.

Why are Jose's gamers still desirable? Well, speaking for myself, I still love Canseco. He's my favorite player and always will be. Steroids or no steroids. I was involved in bodybuilding for a while so I knew Jose was on something even back in the day. It never bothered me. I'll stop there because steroids and Jose's book is a debate for another thread.

Canseco was an exciting player with an interesting personality as well.
He did things I'd never seen anyone do before and he did it all with style. That's something that's severly lacking in todays game in my opinion. I just wish he didn't have back problems because they limited his playing time so much. Jose's statistics per 162 games compare favorably with the best players in baseball history. All he needed to do was play.

Continuing to collect Canseco's stuff is a fun hobby for me that reminds me of more interesting time in sports history. Plus, not everyone is after his stuff so my collection is somewhat unique. I'm rambling, sorry guys. I'm just amazed to find more dedicated Canseco fans out there.

-Jason M

[JasonM33]

Re: Canseco 88 WS Jersey!!!!! need opinions ASAP

Hey Rudy, I didn't bid on the 88 world series jersey on ebay. I didn't like how its framed, also you cant see the tagging. another thing i noticed was the inscription on the jersey. its say 1988 game jersey, and then he puts all the things he did that year. he put 88 world series at the end. I was thinking if it was a world series jersey, Jose would put 1988 world series game jersey. its werid. the jersey looks good, but i don't think its a world series jersey. on my webshots, the road jersey is 1991. the tag is set 1 1991. I also got the pants. I've gotten 4 jerseys from Jose. I got the road rookie uniform, TBTC rangers uniform, alternate blue jays uniform , and a home white sox. I also picked the blue jays dugout jersey from him. I also love jerseys that show alot of wear, sometimes its tough to find on baseball gamers. you make some good points Rudy. some of his jerseys still comand alot, its very werid. thanks Dan

I agree with you 100% on that WS jersey. I didn't like that it was framed but it was the inscription that really gave me pause.

By the way, I saw your jerseys on webshots a bit ago. wow, you're my hero. I'll post some pics of my humble collection soon.

-Jason M

[mailman93]

Re: Canseco 88 WS Jersey!!!!! need opinions ASAP

i was just wondering if the 1989 world series jersey is more desirable, then the 1988 or 1990. I'm assuming its because he won in it 89. the question is which one would you take, and why? I like the 88 , just because of what he accomplised in that year. the werid thing is about the game used world series 1989 bat on ebay awhile ago. nobody bid on it, and that could of been one of the best Canseco bats you could get. when he hit the homerun in game 3. I guess most people here collect jerseys. thanks Dan

[JasonM33]

Re: Canseco 88 WS Jersey!!!!! need opinions ASAP

i was just wondering if the 1989 world series jersey is more desirable, then the 1988 or 1990. I'm assuming its because he won in it 89. the question is which one would you take, and why? I like the 88 , just because of what he accomplised in that year. the werid thing is about the game used world series 1989 bat on ebay awhile ago. nobody bid on it, and that could of been one of the best Canseco bats you could get. when he hit the homerun in game 3. I guess most people here collect jerseys. thanks Dan

To me the 89 is more disirable. First they won the series that year. Second I think it's more interesting to look at because of the Bart Giamatti arm bands. I would agree that game one of the 88 series was probably the pinnacle of Jose's career.....until the ninth inning that is. Doh!

Ah, the 89 game 3 bat on ebay. I really wanted that bat. I mean I really wanted it. I was going to bid on it but at the last minute I had to run to work and it slipped my mind so I didn't get my bid in on it. Does anyone know how to get a hold of the seller?

I was a little concerned about couple things though. First, the auto was faded. Second, there was no 1989 American League Champions printed on it like some of the other bats I've seen. As a matter of fact in the WS video you can clearly see it printed on a bat as he's waiting for the pitch. Although they could have cut that footage from another at bat. They did that on the 88 video. I'd love to get a photo match on that bat. Also, the COAs are copies and not originals. Either way I still want it.

-Jason M

[indyred]

Re: Canseco 88 WS Jersey!!!!! need opinions ASAP

those prices were in major auction houses, that price is minus the hammer fee plus eveything else. I paid alot less for my 1988 world series jersey, and my 2000 road yankees world series jersey. plus I didn't have to pay anything extra. I have a question,either a world series jersey or a rookie jersey of Canseco? my choice is the rookie jersey. if you guys want to check out my jerseys, just go to webshots.com and look under LEAFS93. thanks Dan

Took me awhile. But finally got to your Canseco stuff and that is a great collection (Nice Maple Leafs stuff in there too)! I really like that rookie alternate yellow jersey. Was it a Sunday home type of jersey, did they even have more than one set of those? I see you also have a batting helmet of his. How often have those surfaced? I think helmets are one of the toughest things to find from some player's. I agree, I would have loved to have seen his first home run ball ebay auction run to the end. With that picture posted in here, pretty much authenticates it as the real deal. Not many balls can be proven like that one, especially with no MLB certification/Steiners around to prove it is what it is back then..........

[CansecoPower33]

Re: Canseco 88 WS Jersey!!!!! need opinions ASAP

i was just wondering if the 1989 world series jersey is more desirable, then the 1988 or 1990. I'm assuming its because he won in it 89. the question is which one would you take, and why? I like the 88 , just because of what he accomplised in that year. the werid thing is about the game used world series 1989 bat on ebay awhile ago. nobody bid on it, and that could of been one of the best Canseco bats you could get. when he hit the homerun in game 3. I guess most people here collect jerseys. thanks Dan

I would have bid on the 1989 bat if I had managed to fulfill two requirements: 1) Having the available funds, and 2) Having a photomatch proving the bat was the actual bat used to hit the home run in the 1989 Series.

I got burned on a Canseco bat a couple of months ago and I've told myself I'll do all my homework before bidding in future. I just want to be as close to 100% as is possible. I emailed the seller recently, after it had went unsold twice, and asked if he'd be interested in selling and if he had a photomatch. He was unsure about selling and didn't have the photomatch. If anyone has a good shot of that home run I'd love to see it, at which point I'd get to work on persuading him to sell.

I think Jason said it as well as anyone could on why Canseco is so collectible. I too grew up with Canseco my favorite player (got into baseball as a kid in the late 80s), he did do things like nobody else - and this is the thing - considering the prevalance of steroid use throughout the 1990s, how many hitters ever managed to excite in the way Jose did? I have never seen batspeed like Jose had in his prime, never, not from one single player. The steroid use was something you also knew deep down, but growing up with baseball in the 80s and 90s, it was probably easier to accept what was going on.

[mailman93]

Re: Canseco 88 WS Jersey!!!!! need opinions ASAP

thanks guys for the kind words about my collection. I'm from Toronto, so hockey is hugh here. I love my Leafs. the alternate was worn on sundays, like alot of teams do now. I really don't know, if they worn more then one a year. Batting helmets are very rare, because the Teams keep them. I talked to Jose about that on the phone, and thats why you don't see many of them around. I think the hardest thing to obtain is a fielding glove. I've only seen 2, in the last 6 years. mine is really beaten up, very good use. thanks Dan