Before Mike Trout came up with the Los Angeles Angels in 2012, where he emerged as the next baseball star and won the American League Rookie of the Year, he played his last stint in the minor leagues with the Salt Lake Bees of the Pacific Coast League. Trout played 20 games for Salt Lake in 2012 where he had a .403 batting average, a home run and 13 RBI. Trout, when called up to the Angels for good, would finish the Major League season with a .326 average, 30 home runs and 83 RBI in only 139 games.

                Offered here is an alternate black Salt Lake Bees Rawlings button-down mesh jersey that was worn by Mike Trout in 2012 before his Big League callup. This jersey has been photo matched by Sports Investors Authentication as is one of the earliest known photo matched Trout game used jerseys ever offered. The front of this size XL jersey has “BEES” and “23” sewn on in yellow and white tackle twill. The sleeves have yellow and white piping stripes with the left sleeve having the Rawlings logo embroidered in white and the Bees’ logo patch, while the right sleeve has the Angels halo “A” logo in red. The Rawlings red label is sewn on the front left tail and a Rawlings size XL tag is sewn on the inside back collar. The back of the jersey has “23” sewn on in yellow and white tackle twill and the MILB logo patch on the upper back neck. Trout has signed this jersey in black marker on the middle of the “2” on the back. This jersey displays moderate to heavy game use with puckering on the letters and numbers and some loose stitching. This jersey comes with a LOA from Sports Investors Authentication, who have photo matched this jersey to a 2012 game and a LOA from the Salt Lake City Bees authenticating that Trout wore this jersey in 2012 and an MLB Authenticated hologram (JC125997) for the signature.

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