Need help identifying player who wore this: mid-80's Modesto A's

[whitehse]

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!

[JMEnglish27]

Originally Posted by whitehse

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!

I'd love to hear his thoughts...I'm hoping to track this down to 100% certainty. The '86 year it looks like this style is still floating around a bit too...and there's a sleeve anomaly going on every year too...one guy has two stripes, next guy has three. Typical minor league stuff, I know.

The jersey's a size 44. Doesn't seem unreasonable that young Jose was in that then.

[mouschi]

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

[JMEnglish27]

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.

[mouschi]

Originally Posted by bigj7489

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.

I couldn't find any numbers for guys on the 86 team, sorry!

[JMEnglish27]

Originally Posted by mouschi

I couldn't find any numbers for guys on the 86 team, sorry!

Yeah. I'm fully intrigued now and I'm gonna brave the cold tonight to dig through some crates in the garage. I could swear I have either an '86 program or maybe a Fresno one vs. Modesto...its just buried somewhere. I'll post updates if I find any.

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Originally Posted by whitehse

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!

I'm pretty sure you're thinking of Mouschi. He's on this board, too.

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...hlight=canseco

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