Jersey experts? Help with maybe (?) Joe Torre Mets

[Cliff Bowman]

Mets #9 players between Torre and Jefferies, Bruce Bochy 1982, Mark Bradley 1983, Jerry Martin 1984, Ronn Reynolds 1985.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

Mets #9 players between Torre and Jefferies, Bruce Bochy 1982, Mark Bradley 1983, Jerry Martin 1984, Ronn Reynolds 1985.

They changed the road jerseys in 82 and home jerseys in 83 to have stripes from the collar to the end of the sleeve. So all those guys are ruled out.

It looks same/similar to the 78-81 road uniform. I believe names were added in 79 to home and away jerseys. Would the manager have a BP jersey? Also not sure if the manager would have his name on the back of the jersey.

I could not find many pics of Torre as a manager and none from the back. The ones I did find did not match the jersey posted by Sean, there was a slight difference in the #9.

[roarfrom34]

In 1981 the Mets did have their NOB on their road jerseys...Is their evidence of a nameplate being removed? You can either turn it inside out or hold it up to the light to see evidence of such.

[Jim65]

These jerseys were not made with a nameplate, the number is too high up and leaves no room for one.

Here is a 1983 from my collection with a removed nameplate, you can see the number is lower. Sorry for the crappy pic, my phone doesn't take the best pics.

[Jim65]

Originally Posted by bnorth

They changed the road jerseys in 82 and home jerseys in 83 to have stripes from the collar to the end of the sleeve. So all those guys are ruled out.

It looks same/similar to the 78-81 road uniform. I believe names were added in 79 to home and away jerseys. Would the manager have a BP jersey? Also not sure if the manager would have his name on the back of the jersey..

You're right on all counts

A manager would have a BP jersey and their gamers would have their name on back

[JoeDfan]

Wow. Thanks everyone for the feedback. I looked very closely, and there is no evidence at all of any nameplate being on the jersey. I would think (inside and out) that I would see at least a few loose threads on the back if there had been one.


Thanks,
Sean