October Legends
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/2/2013
Perhaps no season in recent baseball history was as exciting as 1998’s single-season home run race. All summer St. Louis’ Mark McGwire, Seattle’s Ken Griffey Jr. and Chicago’s Sammy Sosa battled it out, each striving to break the most famous record in the game. Big Mac eventually emerged the victor, hitting the record breaking homer on September 8th and adding eight more by the time the season ended. McGwire wore this gray road jersey during that storied summer. The front has the timeless Cardinals bat and birds chain-stitched across the chest in navy, red and yellow. The Rawlings label is sewn inside the right front tail and has additional “52” and “SET 1 1998” tagging. The back has “MCGWIRE” in navy and red tackle twill on a gray name plate above Big Mac’s number “25”.
The jersey shows medium game use with minor marks and snags. MEARS has graded this jersey A5 and their Letter of Opinion is included with this Hall of Fame-worthy artifact. A fantastic looking piece that just glancing at it evokes that incredible 1998 home run summer.