Your Jersey from School

[justinbittner220]

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What a great thread! I still have a bunch of jerseys from Little League and Senior League. High School didn't let us keep them. I also have a ton of my Jr. High, High School, and travel hockey jerseys.

[jake33]

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all my X- girlfriends/power sluts have them now.

Nice jerseys with game use, but I am sure they all smell slutty now.

[UGA016]

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man this is a great thread. I have alot of my Pee Wee football stuff from 5th and 6th grades. We went Undefeated both years and all ended up playing for a Georgia Highschool State Championship in 97-98....what a great group it was.... this is my 6th grade Year.

[jppopma]

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Makes me wonder what and how many jerseys kids have these days? They all have gloves for every position, 3 bats each, their own batting helmet....most likely home, away, alternate, Sunday, and TBTC jerseys to boot. (OK, I'll admit that I'd be the 1st parent to fork over an extra $60 or so for my boys to have nice new jerseys).

What ever happened to the days of one jersey, mesh, screened, and reversible to cover home and away???

Congrats to your old skool BTPH! Duke or not, maybe when if he goes pro you will break down and buy a few jerseys from this century.

[both-teams-played-hard]

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I thought this was a good thread to revisit and to honor my alma mater, Winter Park High School in Winter Park, Florida. 2010 Florida class 6A State Basketball Champions! First State Championship in Boys Basketball in my school's history, led by Doc's son, Austin Rivers.

Winter Park repeated as State Champs last night. Also, Austin was the number one ranked McDonald's All American. He is going to Duke in the fall.

[Tyrcha]

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Here's my collection of jerseys that I've played in over the years.

[GarkoCollector]

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I have my HS baseball jersey and my College jersey from the NAIA championship game.

[otismalibu]

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Played HS hoops in Canada back in the mid 80s. In a hockey town, we were still wearing the hand me downs from the mid 70s. Brutal. Each player was issued a single jersey and pair of trunks. Only numbers on the jersey, not even a school name. No warmups of any kind.
We all chipped in and secretly had our own uniforms designed. paid for them ourselves. Used the Atlanta Hawks as our inspiration. Hit the court for the layup line in our first game and the ref said they were illegal, due to some deal with primary and secondary color BS. And that was that.
All that remains is the practice jersey we ordered with the uniforms.

[sox83cubs84]

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I never played prep sports...one 1990s ballhawk gave my wife his high school baseball jersey. Unfortnately, the guy's become a really major suck-up tool as an adult, so I stuck it away somewhere, God only knows where. When/if I DO find it, it's being donated to the local Goodwill shop.

Dave M.
Chicago area

[geoff]

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I still have my Little League Items from when I Played BaseBall.I also still have my Warm Up Pullover And Hat from when I Played Ball in High School.

[gingi79]

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My dad kept all of my Little League jerseys. My first year, we were sponsored by a hardware store and wore green shirts. Well my dog was named after Reggie Jackson and my father dug through all of the shirts until he found number 44. I was much older before I knew why

While I love sports, I was about as athletically gifted as a three legged horse. I wasn't fast, I had no endurance and I grew up in a house where two people smoked until I was 24 so running caused me to cough. I say this because I realized my best friend and I were growing apart when we started high school and I wanted to find something we could do together so we could remain friendly. I knew him for 14 years but he and I were very different people when we started high school. It was important enough for me to find some common ground. When he suggested I join the Track Team, I laughed and figured I's sign up and wash out.

My coach was a teacher in our school. He handled the students who had behavioral and emotional problems. He was a hard man who was a long time student of karate. He once had his ass kicked by Chuck Norris in Madison Square Garden. He reminded me a lot of my father, a very strong willed person. For 3 years, 6 seasons, I listened to him tell me how I wasn't doing it right and that I should stop smoking (even though it was my parents not me) and push myself. The one thing he never questioned was the fact I listened to him and my form was excellent.

My senior year our first practice, he named 3 people the Captains. All three were 4 years members and had improved to the point of being competitive. As he named them, each one on order offered the Captaincy to me. It turns out, they had discussed it and felt the fact I had fought for 4 seasons to do my best, had never once missed a practice, was the first one there and the last one home and cheered loudest for my teammates that I was captain for my 4 years already and they felt I should formally get the title. The coach agreed. I thought I was on top of the world, that I could never feel better about myself. That was until I found out my teammates all donated $3 each to buy me my captains jacket.

We couldn't keep our uniforms as it took 5 years of saving the money allocated to us in our budget to get new uniforms but my captains jacket will be hung in my ManCave with my Letters, numbers, awards and Discus.

[shoremen44]

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I still have my Lacrosse Jersey and Helmet.. and of course Ring, from my 1998 National Championship year

Pic is just one game from that year

[suave1477]

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I still have my Dodgeball uniform you may recognize me in this picture

[legaleagle92481]

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I'm nostalgic too... I never managed to save any of my childhood baseball or basketball uniforms... but got into the habit later. I became a pretty competitive bowler from high school on... I saved my High School Varsity jacket and the bowling shirt I wore for Hofstra University in all of our team matches. We came in 2nd place in the EIBC (Eastern Intercollegiate Bowling Conference) in 1988-89. The following year I was named Captain... I never got the obligatory "C" though...lol...

You went to Hofstra? I did also.

[eisenreich8]

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I wore a polyester and pleather band uniform.