Game-Used Dodger Wears at Goldin Auctions

Are you looking for some previously worn Dodger baseball uniforms?  How about a game bat, cap or batting helmet?  All of this and more is currently available at Goldin's October Legends sports collector auction.  Check out some of favorites below:

The Toy Cannon, Jimmy Wynn, once wore this 1975 game-used Dodger jersey.  He had joined the team in 1974 and helped the club towards a National League pennant.  Wynn slashed .271/.387/.497/.884 and was named the Sporting News Comeback Player of the Year.  In '75 he was hampered by a shoulder injury.  After that season he was traded to Atlanta for Dusty Baker.

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Below is a Clayton Kershaw game jersey from the year he should have won a Cy Young - 2012.  This specific jersey was worn on October 3, 2012 - his last regular season game of the season.  Kershaw went eight innings, gave up one run, three hits and earned his 14th victory of the year.

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This next shirt is a camo jersey worn on Memorial Day by Adrian Gonzalez in 2013.  Adrian went 4 for 4 that afternoon with two doubles, four runs and an RBI.

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You don't see too many of these.  Below is Gary Sheffield's 1998 Dodgers jacket.

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Check out this game bat from Willie Davis below.

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Or how about a couple of game-used caps from Matt Kemp and Yasiel Puig.

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Best yet, below is Kershaw's NLCS batting helmet from 2013.  It is from Game 6.  Unfortunately, the day this helmet was worn is not a bright spot for the Dodgers or Kershaw.  This was the afternoon Clayton got shelled for seven earned runs against the Cardinals.

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Blog Kiosk: 10/19/2015 - Dodger Links - Scavuzzo, Greinke and Don Mattingly

Congratulations to Dodger prospect Jacob Scavuzzo for winning the NL title and the overall championship in the AFL Bowman Hitting Challenge in Arizona.  Via Spencer Fordin at MLB.com, "Dodgers' Scavuzzo wins Fall League Hitting Challenge."

"It's a good experience," he said of the AFL. "You get a chance to see the game's best prospects. I'm not really that tired. A lot of guys are complaining about it being a long season, but it's not my first full season. I think I've prepared my body to play well into September or October. I feel great."

Photo above via @MLBazFallLeague on twitter.  Below are more links to check out:

• Via Eric Stephen at True Blue LA, "Dodgers 2015 offseason roster breakdown."
• To the surprise of no one, Zack Greinke will opt out of his contract to seek a richer deal.  Via Jon Heyman at CBS Sports.
• I am not at all surprised that several players have gotten behind their manager.  Via Zach Helfand at the LA Times, "With Don Mattingly's fate uncertain, Dodgers players offer support."

“I’m glad I play for Don,” third baseman Justin Turner said. “I would play for Donnie any day of the week. Anything he wanted me to do, anything he asked of me, I’m right there, I’m behind him 100%. I think he’s an unbelievable manager, did an unbelievable job handling everything that goes on both on and off the field with this club, and he’s got my support 100%.”
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“All three years I’ve been here so far, it’s a different type of job here,” (JP) Howell said. “The expectations are World Series or fail, and that’s throughout the whole season, so he’s done a great job of when it’s not going so well, he’s always cool to be around. He’s never been terrible, even when he’s looking like he might be in trouble in 2013, he was great. He was great to be around. We were in Milwaukee at the time, and he handled that cool as a cucumber, so that’s all we could ask.”
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“We didn't lose because of Donnie, like everybody says,” (Enrique) Hernandez said. “We lost because we couldn't score runs. Donnie has nothing to do with this. There's no reason Donnie has to be fired.”

• Former Dodger Ryan Theriot is a troll, via his tweet:

So I missed the game last night..how'd the 314 million dollar payroll work out for the Dodgers? #moneyballdoesntwork

— ryan theriot (@rtheriot7) October 16, 2015

• The oldest living Dodger, Mike Sandlock, turned 100 on Saturday.  Mark Langill at Dodger Insider wrote a nice piece about him, here.  Check out a great story written about Sandlock a couple of weeks ago, via Dom Amore at the Hartford Courant, here.

"In '45, I had a good year," Sandlock said. "But the next season, what's his name? The shortstop, [Pee Wee] Reese came back. I had to take the No. 1 off and give it back to him, and I wore No. 4. Reese was a hell of a nice guy, but anyway, in '46 they sent me to Montreal [in the International League]. That's when Jackie Robinson was being brought in. In spring training, Rickey asked me if I would play pepper with Jackie Robinson, that's when you could play pepper [a brisk batting and fielding exercise that has long disappeared from baseball]."

• ICYMI: head athletic trainer Stan Conte has resigned.  Who knows if this will result in better injury assessments and fewer trips to the DL.  I do know that the spate of hamstring issues over the past few years has been frustrating.  Via a Dodger press release:

“I want to thank the Dodger organization and specifically each and every one of the dedicated medical staff for their support these last nine seasons in Los Angeles,” Conte said in a club release. “My resignation will allow me to focus on my research in baseball injury analytics as I remain committed to determining the causes and effects of various baseball injuries.”

On another note, I wonder is this is just the first shoe to drop.  Who else, if any, from the big club will be asked to go?

• With the season now over for the Dodgers the Chase Utley suspension appeal has been postponed, via an AP report on ESPN.

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