Need help identifying player who wore this: mid-80's Modesto A's
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Got this for Christmas, it's the green one at center. Number on back is 22.
I know it's a Modesto A's game worn. And I know they wore this style from 1983 thru 1987. But does anyone know one or more of the players who wore #22? Unfortunately my research on this is stuck because I'm lacking game programs from those years. Anyone have any idea? |
Don't know if this will help but Rick Langford wore #22 for the Oakland A's during that period. Those jerseys were also used for Spring Training and it's more than likely that Langdon wore that same #22 you have at some point in time.
Langford also pitched two games for Modesto, one in 1983 and one in 1985, probably conditioning starts after an injury layoff since Modesto is only a couple of hours from Oakland, so it wouldn't be a stretch that he wore #22 for those starts if the Modesto roster did not have a player wearing that number. |
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Really what I need to do is find an old program or two from that era and see what's listed. |
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Umm...I just found this. The card # is 5. But look at the # to the right of the name.
I think I may have done well here...for an A's fan this is amazing if it's actually the case. |
Mystery solved...and wowee.
So, 1983, they were still wearing hand me downs from the Finley years. Lighter green, etc. 1984 they wore this style, and Jose Canseco was #22 1985 they wore this style, and Bob Loscalzo was #22 1986 they switched to a different green jersey. I'm over the moon, this is great. Not solid enough to say yes, this was definitely worn by Jose Canseco, but enough to make my wife's $50 purchase even more of a great buy. |
There is a HUGE Canseco collector on another board that I have let know about this thread. He is such a huge collector that he has been at Canseco's house and regularly trades tweets with him.
If you are selling he might have interest but at the very least, he enjoys a good sports mystery such as this and will enjoy the read. Great story! |
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The jersey's a size 44. Doesn't seem unreasonable that young Jose was in that then. |
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http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...hlight=canseco |
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I'm the guy he was talking about - great jersey no matter what! It does look like it might be a 1986 jersey though . The Modesto A's cards I've seen in 84 and 85 have 3 stripes on the sleeves, whereas the 86 Modesto A's cards have 2 stripes. Nice pickup either way though :)
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Yup, that's the stripe anomaly I was referring to. Any idea who it would have been for '86?
I've come across a photo or two from pre-86 with two stripes, and an '86 photo with three stripes, so...There's some oddity with '86 too where some guys have a slightly different A's logo across front too. I'm as happy as can be with it though. |
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