Who am I to question Mitchell and Ness, but I am unfamiliar with the Mets having giant numbers like these. I guess I could look it up in the style guide but I have been resisting looking at the guide because I know I will wind up writing 20 articles.
Anyway here’s a 1965 McGraw jersey. This is where I say it looks better than anything they wear now.
#56 huh? I kinda want this.
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It looks like a decent match for the style – Grey Flannel Auctions sold Galen Cisco's jersey earlier this month if you want to see some pictures for comparison.
http://www.greyflannelauctions.com/LotDetail.aspx?lotid=21682&searchby=0&searchvalue=None&page=1&sortby=0&displayby=2&lotsperpage=100&category=1
I think Casey Stengel or Buddy Harrelson would have been better choices, though — who's going to associate #56 with Tug McGraw (or anyone else who ever played for the Mets?)
I don't ever believe Met numbers were that big!
The Phillies of the 60's had very big numbers.
A quick look at Mets By The Numbers (mbtn.net) shows that Tug only wore 45. Hmmmmm, have to check into that one a little more.
Maybe we should question Mitchell and Ness because Uniwatch says that Tug never wore 56 either. How do you get away with a mistake like that?
I contacted Mitchell and Ness about the #56 mystery. Tug NEVER wore that number…where did they get 56 from. I was told he wore that number in spring training…my response was ….so what!!!!??? Why would anyone buy this????
Still waiting for their response. I think they just screwed up.
Great job Frank, I'm going to reach out to UniWatch to see what they say, and I guess I should open the style guide today. Uh oh (major time vacuum alert).