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If not for Rodley Redd, a batboy for the Raleigh Caps in 1959, a little bit
of baseball history would have landed in the trash.
Instead, a jersey worn by Bob Feller and Carl Yastrzemski -- likely the only
one ever used in games by two different baseball Hall of Famers -- is a
family heirloom and a piece of living history.
"I don't care how much it is worth," Redd said. "I like having it where I can
look at it and touch it. I don't want it locked up somewhere."
The jersey hangs in his closet alongside his polo shirts. For a few years, it
had been lost, packed away in a trunk.
Few items of sports memorabilia have a history quite like this one.
Feller wore it when he helped pitch the Cleveland Indians to the 1954 World
Series, where they lost to the New York Giants.
Five years later, Yastrzemski began his professional baseball career in it
with the Raleigh Caps after the jersey had been sold by the Burlington
Alamance Indians to the Raleigh minor league team.
Yastrzemski and Feller each have authenticated the jersey and have signed it,
although Feller's autograph has faded.
"It is the only known dual Hall of Famer game-worn jersey in existence," said
Mike Gutierrez of Heritage Galleries in Dallas.
Gutierrez is the consignment director for sports at the gallery and is
nationally known as an appraiser on the "Antiques Roadshow" on PBS.
He said giving an appraisal on a unique item is always difficult, but he
guesses the jersey would bring $10,000 to $20,000 at auction.
Redd, 64, who saved the jersey when he was 12 years old, has no plans to sell
it.
"You may have $10,000 or $20,000, but I just want to keep it," he said. "At
least as long as I'm alive, it is not for sale."
"Oh, he doesn't want to sell it," said Reggie Redd, his son. "He enjoys
showing it off too much. He likes taking it out, turning it over to show the
autographs. He doesn't want it framed and hanging on the wall."
Feller wore the jersey in 1954, near the end of his career. The Indians won
the American League pennant that year, with Feller posting a 13-3 record.
The Alamance Indians in Burlington, a Cleveland farm club, inherited the old
Cleveland uniforms but sold the jersey along with other uniforms to the Class
B Raleigh Caps. The Raleigh team assigned the old No. 19 jersey to an
18-year-old shortstop named Yastrzemski. (He would make his fame with the
Boston Red Sox wearing the number 8.)
If Yastrzemski ever noticed the red-stitched "Feller" in the back of the
jersey or the "1954" tag near the buttons, he never mentioned it to Redd,
then the team's batboy.
Yastrzemski sent word through his agent, Dick Gordon, that he doesn't
remember anything about the jersey. But he remembered Rodley Redd fondly.
"Yaz said Rodley was a really nice kid," Gordon said. "He remembers him after
all these years."
Yastrzemski turned 19 that summer and was the class of the league. He hit
.377 and also led the league with 170 hits and 34 doubles. He was voted the
league rookie of the year and the league most valuable player.
The future all-star made such a big impression on Redd that when the season
was over and the road jerseys were being discarded, Redd kept Yastrzemski's.
Depending on the collector, the jersey's value could vary.
Gutierrez said one factor in the appraising the jersey is determining who
might want it.
Someone might want the first professional jersey of Yastrzemski. Someone else
might one a game-worn Feller jersey. Another collector might want a jersey
worn during the Indians' 111-win season. Maybe someone else wants a
one-of-a-kind collectible.
"This is a unique, hybrid jersey," Gutierrez said. "You don't see the pieces
come together like this."
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