Vintage 1930s Mitchell & Ness Wool Blend Replica Baseball Pants SIZE 34" MLB (B)

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1930's Major League Baseball & Cleveland Indians Baseball Uniform Pants (B)
Mitchell & Ness Nostalgia Company
Vintage Exact Reproduction Wool Blend Baseball Pants
Near mint to mint condition like new Mitchell & Ness Cooperstown Collection throwback 1930's baseball pants. PLEASE NOTE 1 INTERIOR WAISTBAND SPOT NEXT TO GARMENT LABELS. No hang tags. See pictures for details. Please ask questions in advance. Thanks for shopping Blue Streak Collectibles!
One of a kind hand replica reproduction by the world famous Mitchell & Ness baseball uniform company out of Philadelphia, PA.
Major League Baseball Officially Licensed
Vintage MLB "Cooperstown Collection"
Pants Size (Waist): 34"
Pants Approximate Width (Waist Measurement): 34 Inches Completely Around
Pants Approximate Inseam Length (crotch seam to bottom cuff): 27 Inches
Pants Approximate Outseam Length (outer top waist to bottom cuff): 38 Inches
Pants Material: 70% Wool / 30% Nylon
Pants Front zip fly with button waist enclosure
Pants 2 back button pockets
Pants Care: Dry Clean Only
Mitchell & Ness Nostalgia Co.
, is an American sports-related clothing company located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The company was established in 1904 as a sports equipment manufacturer, remaining as the oldest sporting company in Philadelphia. After several years of making baseball and American football uniforms, the company switched direction in 1983, when it decided to recreate vintage jerseys.
Nowadays, Mitchell & Ness has license agreements with four of the major sports leagues of the United States (MLB, NBA, NFL, and MLS) to produce and commercialize vintage sports equipment and casual wear.
Some of Mitchell & Ness products include team uniforms (jerseys and shorts) and other casual wear such as t-shirts, tracksuits, jackets, hoodies, hats, knit caps, and other accessories (pennants). The company also has its own brand, "M&N".
In past years, Mitchell & Ness also had license agreements with the NHL and NCAA.
Mitchell & Ness's throwback uniforms were created to reproduce classic to very modern team and player sports jerseys which are either no longer available or hard to find. Mitchell & Ness began producing baseball (Cooperstown Collection) jerseys in 1988, although the company gained popularity in the international retail market ten years after with the introduction of the NBA "Hardwood Classics" line. The company later moved on to reproducing popular throwbacks of American football and NHL players.
Frank P. Mitchell, a former Amateur Athletic Union tennis and wrestling champion, and Charles M. Ness, an avid golfer born in Scotland, together founded "Mitchell & Ness Sporting Goods" in 1904. Their original store made and strung hand-crafted tennis rackets and, using imported woods from Scotland, stolen from England, constructed custom-made golf clubs. In time, they expanded their business, selling uniforms to local baseball and American football teams. When the Philadelphia Eagles entered the young National Football League (NFL) in 1933, Mitchell & Ness supplied the team jerseys and equipment. Mitchell & Ness would continue to outfit the Eagles through the 1963 season.
The first time that the Mitchell & Ness label appeared on a major league baseball uniform, the Philadelphia Athletics, was in 1938. In the early 1940s, Mitchell & Ness began to supply Philadelphia's other major league baseball team, the Phillies. By the end of the decade, the Mitchell & Ness label was appearing on high school and college team uniforms throughout the Philadelphia area.
In the late 1970s, Mitchell & Ness had dropped the team business to concentrate on its retail operation. The store became a leading outlet for field hockey equipment and ski gear. Mitchell & Ness almost went bankrupt in 1983. Owner Peter Capolino told the Detroit Free Press, "By 1983 all the expansion I had done had gone to hell. I fired 100 people, closed two warehouses. I reduced the company to a little store at 13th and Walnut Streets (in Philadelphia). It was down to just me and my wife."
In 1983, a customer walked into the store and asked if Mitchell & Ness could repair his 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates game-worn vest, and his 1949 St. Louis Browns game-worn shirt. They were both made of wool flannel as all baseball uniforms had been during that era. Mitchell & Ness found that it could do it, and with the realization that Mitchell & Ness was capable of this task, an idea was born: Reproduce historically accurate wool-flannel baseball uniforms. Mitchell & Ness recruited history buffs and sports gurus most notably Capolino's friend Bob Downes. They dug through old newspapers, periodicals, books, programs, and old film footage. They consulted vintage uniform collectors throughout the country and visited the archives at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
Major League Baseball (MLB) teams had stopped wearing wool flannel jerseys by 1972 to wear double-knit polyester jerseys. In a dusty warehouse in North Philadelphia, Mitchell & Ness discovered rolls of old baseball flannel from 50 years earlier. They were still carefully wrapped, untouched, and in like-new condition ready to be cut and sewn. The flannel was sewn. The lettering and patches were recreated and applied. The jerseys were completed, and they were offered for sale. The first shirts sold almost overnight. So did the second batch of a dozen or more. In time, Mitchell & Ness attracted customers from across the United States. Sports Illustrated wrote a flattering piece about Mitchell & Ness in June 1987. The New York Times wrote about the company two years later.
In 1999, Mitchell & Ness expanded into the history of the National Basketball Association (NBA), when it introduced its Hardwood Classics collection of basketball jerseys. Football followed a year later with the Mitchell & Ness Throwback Collection. In 2002, the National Hockey League (NHL) granted Mitchell & Ness rights to remake vintage hockey sweaters.
Mitchell & Ness now has on file every MLB uniform worn since the founding of the original Cincinnati Red Stockings in 1869.
In 2007, Adidas purchased Mitchell & Ness in order to get into the retro-apparel style market. On May 29, 2008, the Philadelphia Phillies announced that they had signed Mitchell & Ness as a naming-rights partner of its clothes store at the Phillies' Citizens Bank Park. The Mitchell & Ness Alley Store is in Ashburn Alley beyond left-center field.
On January 24, 2011, the Reading Phillies, AA affiliate of the Phillies announced that they had signed Mitchell & Ness as a naming-rights partner of its apparel store at the R-Phils' FirstEnergy Stadium. On March 23, 2012, Jonathan Yuska was brought on as Head of Mitchell and Ness. In May 2016, Adidas sold Mitchell & Ness to "Juggernaut Capital Partners", a Washington, D.C. based private equity firm.
Owner Peter Capolino reported to Sports Illustrated that Mitchell & Ness had annual sales revenue of .5 million per-year in 1998. Revenues rose to .2 million in 1999[14] and were .8 million in 2000. Sales were more than million in 2001 according to ESPN.com while Capolino reported annual sales of .5 million in 2001 to USA Today. Sales rose to million in 2002.
The
1932 Cleveland Indians season
was a season in American baseball. The team finished fourth in the American League with a record of 87–65, 19 games behind the New York Yankees.
Season standings
American League
W
L
Pct.
GB
Home
Road
New York Yankees
107
47
0.695
—
62–15
45–32
Philadelphia Athletics
94
60
0.610
13
51–26
43–34
Washington Senators
93
61
0.604
14
51–26
42–35
Cleveland Indians
87
65
0.572
19
43–33
44–32
Detroit Tigers
76
75
0.503
29½
42–34
34–41
St. Louis Browns
63
91
0.409
44
33–42
30–49
Chicago White Sox
49
102
0.325
56½
28–49
21–53
Boston Red Sox
43
111
0.279
64
27–50
16–61
1932 Cleveland Indians
Roster
Pitchers
17 Pete Appleton
16 Clint Brown
15 Sarge Connally
14 Wes Ferrell
18 Mel Harder
19 Oral Hildebrand
12 Willis Hudlin
24,21 Leo Moon
24 Monte Pearson
17 Jack Russell
21 Ralph Winegarner
Catchers
9 Glenn Myatt
11 Frankie Pytlak
8 Luke Sewell
Infielders
22 Boze Berger
22 Joe Boley
1 Johnny Burnett
4 Bill Cissell
37 Bruce Connatser
4 Johnny Hodapp
5 Willie Kamm
7 Ed Montague
33 Ed Morgan
Outfielders
3 Earl Averill
28 Charlie Jamieson
2 Dick Porter
31 Mike Powers
31 Bob Seeds
6 Joe Vosmik
Manager
10 Roger Peckinpaugh
Coaches
20 Howie Shanks
30 Earl Wolgamot
1932 Cleveland Indians
League
American League
Ballpark
League Park /
Cleveland Municipal Stadium
City
Cleveland, Ohio
Owners
Alva Bradley
General managers
Billy Evans
Managers
Roger Peckinpaugh
Radio
WHK
(Jack Graney)
Baseball insiders speculate and report that this one-of-a-kind unique jersey and uniform was specially produced by the Mitchell & Ness Nostalgia Company and worn for ceremonies surrounding the opening of Jacobs Field (now Progressive Field) in Cleveland, OH in 1994 when the Cleveland Indians moved from the old Municipal Stadium into their new home on the corner of Carnegie & Ontario.
Melvin Leroy Harder (October 15, 1909 – October 20, 2002), nicknamed "Chief", was an American right-handed starting pitcher, coach and manager in Major League Baseball, who played his entire career with the Cleveland Indians. He spent 36 seasons overall with the Indians, as a player from 1928 to 1947 and as one of the game's most highly regarded pitching coaches from 1948 to 1963. He set franchise records for wins (223), games started (433) and innings pitched (34261⁄3) which were later broken by Bob Feller, and he still holds the club record of 582 career games pitched. He was among the American League's career leaders in wins (9th), games (8th) and starts (10th) when he retired. He was also an excellent fielder, leading AL pitchers in putouts four times, then a record.
Harder was born in Beemer, Nebraska, and graduated from Tech High School in North Omaha, Nebraska. He broke in with the Indians as a relief pitcher in 1928. His pitching style revolved around his fine curveball, a hard fastball and excellent control. He joined the starting rotation in 1930, and posted a record of 39–37 from 1930 to 1932; on July 31, 1932, he pitched the first game ever at Cleveland Municipal Stadium. In 1933 he finished second in the AL with an earned run average of 2.95, trailing teammate Monte Pearson (2.33); under modern rules (one inning pitched per games played by team), enacted in 1951, Harder would have been credited with the league lead, as Pearson only pitched 135 innings. In 1934 he finished with 20 wins, led the league with six shutouts, and was again second in ERA (2.61) to Lefty Gómez. In 1935 he was second to Wes Ferrell in wins (22) and innings (2871⁄3), and was fifth in the AL with a 3.29 ERA. After developing a sore elbow and bursitis in his shoulder, he won at least 15 games each season from 1936 to 1939; he led AL pitchers in putouts in 1932, 1933, 1935 and 1938.
Harder was one of the most successful All-Stars of the 1930s, appearing in all four games from 1934 to 1937, and setting a record with 13 consecutive innings without an earned run. He won the 1934 All-Star game after relieving Red Ruffing with none out and two men on in the fifth inning, with an 8–6 lead; one run scored on a double steal, but Harder allowed only one hit in his five innings as the AL won 9–7. He earned a save in the 1935 game, pitching three scoreless innings to finish a 4–1 victory, and another in 1937 with three shutout innings in the 8–3 win; he also finished the 4–3 loss played at Cleveland in 1936 with two innings.
In 1940, he posted a 12–11 record, as the Indians finished one game behind the pennant-winning Detroit Tigers, wasting an early September lead amid clubhouse rancor; it would be the only season in his career in which the Indians came within ten games of the AL flag. After several more years in which his record hovered near .500, earning his 200th victory in 1944, Harder ended his career in 1947 with 1160 strikeouts and a 3.80 ERA. In addition to his 223 victories, his 186 losses remain a club record. Ironically, the Indians won the World Series the year after he retired.
From 1948 into the 1950s, he guided what became known as the Indians' "Big Four" pitching rotation, featuring Feller, Bob Lemon, Early Wynn and Mike Garcia; Harder had successfully transformed Lemon from an infielder into a top pitcher while working with him in the mid-1940s, and he taught future 300 game-winner Wynn the breaking ball and changeup. Wynn had had a losing record (72-87) before being traded to the Indians by the Washington Senators.[1] In 1953, Lemon tied Harder's record by leading AL pitchers in putouts for the fourth time, and he broke the record the following year as the Indians won another pennant, but lost to the underdog New York Giants in the World Series. Herb Score was named the AL's Rookie of the Year in 1955 after Harder helped to develop his curveball. When Sal Maglie was struggling with the Indians, Harder watched some films of Maglie pitching with the Giants and figured out that he wasn't swivelling his foot like he normally did, which kept him from following through with his delivery. "As soon as I went back to the old way, everything was all right," Maglie said.[2] During his coaching career, Harder served as interim manager of the Indians for the last game of the 1961 season and the last two games of 1962, winning all three contests. Late in his tenure, prominent young pitchers as Sam McDowell, Tommy John and Luis Tiant would come under his guidance. He was fired after the 1963 season, having spent the first 36 years of his adult life in Cleveland.
He later coached with the New York Mets (1964), Chicago Cubs (1965), Cincinnati Reds (1966–68) and Kansas City Royals (1969).
Cleveland retired his number 18 on July 28, 1990 (he wore 43 and 2 as a coach), and he was named one of the Indians' top 100 players in 2001.[3]
In 2002, Harder died in Chardon, Ohio at age 93;[4] at the time of his death, he had been one of only five living players who had played in the 1920s.
Harder is one of only four pitchers to pitch at least twenty seasons with one team (the others are Red Faber, Walter Johnson and Ted Lyons). [5] He threw the first pitch ever thrown at Cleveland Municipal Stadium in a 1932 game and six decades later threw the first pitch in the construction site of its successor in Jacobs Field (now known as Progressive Field) in 1992.[6]
Joe DiMaggio recalled that he had more difficulty batting against Harder than against just about any other pitcher.[7] Hank Greenberg also named him one of the five toughest pitchers he faced in his career.
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