1982 Chattanooga Lookouts Kelly Gruber Jersey on eBay

[diwhite]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/272717508503

I'm a huge Kelly Gruber fan and I was really excited to see this jersey pop up recently. It says it is a 1982 Chattanooga Lookouts #5 jersey, and Gruber wore #5 for the team in 1982. Sadly, this isn't a 1982 jersey, and that's the only year Gruber played for the team.

Gruber's 1982 TCMA card shows a different Lookouts home jersey (look at the neckline and arm stripes) with a different team logo on it (look at the loops in the "o" and the underline). The jersey has the 1984 Lookouts logo (I confirmed with their 1984 TCMA cards), so I believe it is a 1984 jersey. I don't see a #5 on the 1984 roster or in the 1984 set, but it's kinda hard to find a complete list of jersey numbers. There are matching pants included in the listing that have #20 and seem to say BART, and sure enough Greg Bartley wore #20 in 1984.

I discovered this with about 3 minutes left in the auction, otherwise I would have posted this earlier or contacted the seller.

Anyway, if someone on here bought the "Gruber" Lookouts jersey today I thought you might want to know that it isn't what it claimed to be. The seller seemed skeptical that it was a Gruber jersey, but claimed it was from 1982 which is wrong. That should be enough to initiate a return or file a "item not as described" claim.

[G1X]

Don't take any of this to the bank, but the eBay jersey appears to be a one-year style worn in 1984 based on their card sets from that era. The jersey style that Gruber is wearing in the photo provided in the previous post was last worn in 1983, again based on the Lookouts card sets. In 1985, they switched to a blue and gold color scheme that was very similar to the parent Seattle club's uniforms of that era.

Mark Hayne
Gridiron Exchange
gixc@verizon.net

[diwhite]

Thanks Mark! I thought the same thing, thanks for the confirmation.

[diwhite]

The buyer must have figured this out, because the item was relisted this morning.

I contacted the seller, hopefully they will update it as a 1984 jersey.