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Currently offered in the Historic Auction listing is a pair of "1987 Mike Schmidt Phillies game worn pants":
Description reads, "This pair of Rawlings Size 34 home pants were used by Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt in the 1987 season. This was the first and may have been the only pair of home pants issued to him in that great season. These pants were signed beautifully by Schmidt and show very nice game use".
Notice the tagging: The Phillies/Rawlings embroidered their pants by listing the players' uniform number first, then the waist size, etc. Notice that these pants are identified as uniform number 40, not 20 as it should be for Schmidt's uniform number 20. Number 40 was worn by pitcher Steve Bedrosian for the entire 1987 season.
Below, please see 3 pairs of Phillies 1987 pants I currently own:
Home white #20 Mike Schmidt
Road blue #20 Mike Schmidt
Road blue #40 Steve Bedrosian
The Phillies recycled their 1987 pants to their various minor league teams in 1988, thus, the names written in the waist in black marker.
I emailed Mr. Brown at Historic, and asked how these can be attributed to Schmidt (and how the 1983 Phillies Carlton jacket could have a sleeve patch when the Phillies did not use the patch on their jackets, only their game jerseys)? Clearly, their information is not correct on these pants, in the fact that I have another pair of correctly tagged Schmidt pants, thus, the pair they have could not be the only pair worn, if indeed they were even attributed to Schmidt, or could be traced back to him wearing them.
Mr. Brown responded:
From: James Brown [mailto:james@historicauctions.com]
Sent: Tue 10/30/2007 5:16 PM
To: Howard Wolf
Subject: RE: QUESTION ABOUT PHILLIES ITEMS
[FONT='Calibri','sans-serif']Mr. Wolf,[/FONT]
[FONT='Calibri','sans-serif']I appreciate you emailing me regarding these two items. I will look into both and see what further information I can obtain regarding each. I will let you know as soon as I know something.[/FONT]
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In summary, I purchased over 2,000 pairs of pants direclty from the Phillies, dating from 1974-2002. I never saw a pair that was originally worn by another player first, then by Schmidt at a later date. Likewise, why would Schmidt wear Steve Bedrosians pants in 1987, when Bedrosian himself would have worn them? Furthermore, there is no identifiaction even indicating Schmidt would have worn these (no #20 written in).
I eagerly await receiving Mr. Browns response.
Howard Wolf
hblakewolf@patmedia.net
P.S.-If interested in either pair of my Schmidt pants, I am open to all reasonable offers.
Description reads, "This pair of Rawlings Size 34 home pants were used by Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt in the 1987 season. This was the first and may have been the only pair of home pants issued to him in that great season. These pants were signed beautifully by Schmidt and show very nice game use".
Notice the tagging: The Phillies/Rawlings embroidered their pants by listing the players' uniform number first, then the waist size, etc. Notice that these pants are identified as uniform number 40, not 20 as it should be for Schmidt's uniform number 20. Number 40 was worn by pitcher Steve Bedrosian for the entire 1987 season.
Below, please see 3 pairs of Phillies 1987 pants I currently own:
Home white #20 Mike Schmidt
Road blue #20 Mike Schmidt
Road blue #40 Steve Bedrosian
The Phillies recycled their 1987 pants to their various minor league teams in 1988, thus, the names written in the waist in black marker.
I emailed Mr. Brown at Historic, and asked how these can be attributed to Schmidt (and how the 1983 Phillies Carlton jacket could have a sleeve patch when the Phillies did not use the patch on their jackets, only their game jerseys)? Clearly, their information is not correct on these pants, in the fact that I have another pair of correctly tagged Schmidt pants, thus, the pair they have could not be the only pair worn, if indeed they were even attributed to Schmidt, or could be traced back to him wearing them.
Mr. Brown responded:
From: James Brown [mailto:james@historicauctions.com]
Sent: Tue 10/30/2007 5:16 PM
To: Howard Wolf
Subject: RE: QUESTION ABOUT PHILLIES ITEMS
[FONT='Calibri','sans-serif']Mr. Wolf,[/FONT]
[FONT='Calibri','sans-serif']I appreciate you emailing me regarding these two items. I will look into both and see what further information I can obtain regarding each. I will let you know as soon as I know something.[/FONT]
[FONT='Calibri','sans-serif']James[/FONT]
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In summary, I purchased over 2,000 pairs of pants direclty from the Phillies, dating from 1974-2002. I never saw a pair that was originally worn by another player first, then by Schmidt at a later date. Likewise, why would Schmidt wear Steve Bedrosians pants in 1987, when Bedrosian himself would have worn them? Furthermore, there is no identifiaction even indicating Schmidt would have worn these (no #20 written in).
I eagerly await receiving Mr. Browns response.
Howard Wolf
hblakewolf@patmedia.net
P.S.-If interested in either pair of my Schmidt pants, I am open to all reasonable offers.
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