A question for EVERY single member of this forum

[possum]

I'm all for "trying on" my game used items but this is where I have to draw a line and say that the bolded portion above...well that's just plain nasty. No "lol", no smiley face....serious as can be...that's gross.

Please let me know your Ebay ID so that I can be sure that I never buy a GU jersey from you.


Thanks.

First of all, I don't wear them out to bars, restaurants, etc, so don't put words in my mouth. I didn't say I pass out in a pile of my own vomit with the jersey on. Secondly, we're talking about minor league hockey jerseys here. If I owned an 84 Mike Bossy, an 86 Gooden, 85 Clemens, or a Jackie Robinson rookie I wouldn't wear it. That's the point I made by saying my 70-71 EHL championship Checkers shirt won't get worn by anyone. But the guy I got it from was the stick boy then and he wore it when stationed in Korea for several years. Even wrote his last name in the collar. But you know what? When I took it to the Meigray Expo 2 yrs ago another collector proudly let me display it next to his Johnstown EHL shirt.

I fail to see how me wearing a shirt (with sometimes several undershirts) is nasty. I fail to see how me enjoying my collection should allow you to publicly boycott my sales. Especially when its very clear that we don't even share the same collecting interests. Oh wait, you don't have a collection yet. You sure have posted a lot in a topic that doesn't concern you. I am very careful not to let other smokers put burn marks/holes in my shirts and if a drop of beer or whatever is spilled, I'm quick to hand clean it in the sink. Don't make judgements when you don't know the whole story and furthermore, don't disparage my name over something you know nothing about.

[both-teams-played-hard]

First of all, I don't wear them out to bars, restaurants, etc, so don't put words in my mouth. I didn't say I pass out in a pile of my own vomit with the jersey on. Secondly, we're talking about minor league hockey jerseys here. If I owned an 84 Mike Bossy, an 86 Gooden, 85 Clemens, or a Jackie Robinson rookie I wouldn't wear it. That's the point I made by saying my 70-71 EHL championship Checkers shirt won't get worn by anyone. But the guy I got it from was the stick boy then and he wore it when stationed in Korea for several years. Even wrote his last name in the collar. But you know what? When I took it to the Meigray Expo 2 yrs ago another collector proudly let me display it next to his Johnstown EHL shirt.

I fail to see how me wearing a shirt (with sometimes several undershirts) is nasty. I fail to see how me enjoying my collection should allow you to publicly boycott my sales. Especially when its very clear that we don't even share the same collecting interests. Oh wait, you don't have a collection yet. You sure have posted a lot in a topic that doesn't concern you. I am very careful not to let other smokers put burn marks/holes in my shirts and if a drop of beer or whatever is spilled, I'm quick to hand clean it in the sink. Don't make judgements when you don't know the whole story and furthermore, don't disparage my name over something you know nothing about.

All very good points!

If I bought a Zimmerman jersey and it smelled of B.O. Should I wash it or preserve thy funk? The answer, of course is "wash it". ALL jerseys have laundry instructions for a reason. Yes, it is a miracle that we sports collectors have found a woman at all. Good luck to all you single guys with smelly shirts with the sweat stains of other men. Woolite is from the earth. It was put here, by god, for you and me..

Wear your jerseys, swing your bats, let the wind blow through your hair...

[skipcareyisfat]

let the wind blow through your hair...

...unless you're wearing a game used hat

[LWMM]

I only collect Jonny Gomes, and thus only have four jerseys---of these, two were minor league jerseys bought during or right after a game (auctioned during the games), and I don't wear them; they haven't been washed, and one reeks of sweat 6 years later.

Of the other two, I am fine with wearing them, and do; I always wear an undershirt, and don't unbutton the jerseys (I put them over my head instead). Perhaps it has small portions of non-Gomes sweat and/or DNA as a result; I really don't care.

In regards to AMI, I actually found it somewhat funny, enough for at least a grin. I can understand concerns with it, however, and also believe, as with most, that it was not in their best interests to do so.

If no physical signs of non-player wear exist, does that make the entire stigma mental?

[Eric]

This thread reminded me of the story of a player who did exactly what's being discussed here.

Here are the details from a USA story about David Wells from 2001

The 37-year-old Wells — a mountain of a man at 6-4 and listed at a conservative 235 pounds with massive tattoos of likenesses of his kids and late mother on his upper body, and a goatee thick enough to carry a flock of birds for the winter — fully plans to escort the Chicago White Sox to their first World Series title since 1917.

The only question in Wells' mind is whether he should break out a glove from Shoeless Joe Jackson's collection, wear one of Luis Aparicio's old gloves or bring one of Nellie Fox's old bats.

"He has always been obsessed with baseball," says close friend and agent Gregg Clifton, "and has such a passion for baseball history. That's why he wore that Babe Ruth cap.

"Everybody thought he was crazy, but he did it out of reverence for the Babe."

Oh yeah, the cap.

Who could ever forget the time that Wells bought the Ruth cap for $35,000, and instead of putting it away where it'll always be preserved, Wells showed up wearing it in an actual game before Yankee officials ordered him to remove it.

Something about it not being part of the regulation uniform.

"Leave it to you, Boomer," New York Mets pitcher Al Leiter, Wells' former teammate, told him. "Only you would wear that cap and drop the value down to nothing."