Yaz, Feller linked by historic jersey

Well…this certainly trumps my greasy Stack O’ Jacks napkin signed by Big Ben Davidson.

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.”

...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 Jim Gutierrez of Heritage Galleries in Dallas.