Vintage 1979 Mitchell & Ness DAN SPILLNER #37 Cleveland Indians MLB Jersey NR MT

Description

Mitchell & Ness Nostalgia Company
Vintage 1979 Authentic Reproduction
Cleveland Indians Baseball Jersey
Dan Spillner #37 /
Pitcher (R)
Near mint condition and close to brand new Mitchell & Ness Cooperstown Collection throwback 1979 baseball jersey. No hang tags. Note 2 very minor spots/stains circled in pictures. See pictures for details. Please ask questions in advance. Thanks for shopping Blue Streak Collectibles!
Size: LARGE
Approximate Width (Chest Measurement): 22 Inches Across / 44 Inches Completely Around
Approximate Length (Top Center Neck To Center Bottom) 31.5 Inches
Material:
100% Polyester
"37" is a sewn-on tackle twill embellishment (back)
"INDIANS" is sewn on tackle twill embellishment (front)
Vintage Chief Wahoo Batting logo patch embellishment is a sewn-on the left sleeve
V-neck collar
Care: Machine wash (low temperature), mild detergent, no chlorine bleach, hang dry / air dry
Major League Baseball Officially Licensed
Vintage MLB "Cooperstown Collection"
Daniel Ray Spillner
(born November 27, 1951) is an American former professional baseball player. He was pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1974 to 1985. He played for the San Diego Padres, Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox. He led the Padres pitching staff in strikeouts in 1975.
Spillner attended Federal Way High School in Federal Way, Washington. He played for the San Diego Padres, Cleveland Indians, and Chicago White Sox. His first career win was a 5–4 victory over Cincinnati on May 23, 1974. He threw a three-hit, ten-strikeout complete game shutout against Houston on September 11, 1974. He led the Padres in strikeouts in 1975 (104).
After suffering through three losing seasons as a Padre starter, he was part of the major leagues' busiest bullpen in 1977: He and Dave Tomlin each had 76 appearances; Rollie Fingers, 78. A Cleveland starter in 1980, Spillner was 16–11 despite a 5.29 ERA. He was two outs away from a no-hitter on August 20 before rookie Leo Sutherland had a single off him in a 3-0 victory over the White Sox; the no-hitter would have been the first in the AL since Bert Blyleven's on September 22, 1977. He had one fine year as an Indians reliever, going 12–10 (2.49) with 21 saves in 1982. On July 29 of that year, he entered a game with two outs and the bases loaded in the eleventh, induced Paul Molitor to fly out to end the inning, and picked up the win in a 12-inning, 5-1 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers. At the end of July that year, The Toledo Blade called him "one of the league's best" relief pitchers, after he had a 1.93 ERA and 12 saves to that point.
For his career, he compiled a 75–89 record, with a 4.21 ERA, 878 strikeouts and 50 saves in 556 appearances. Spillner, who relied mostly on a fastball, was prone to giving up home runs.
Baseball author Bill James wrote that Spillner was the worst hitting pitcher of the 1970s. For his career, Spillner had a .077 batting average, with 10 hits in 130 at bats, no home runs, and one run batted in.
Cleveland Indians Players Who Have Worn #37:
Trevor Stephan (2021)
Cody Allen (2012-2018)
Chad Durbin (2011)
Jake Westbrook (2001-2010)
Earl Snyder (2002)
Jaime Navarro (2000)
Bobby Witt (2000)
Paul Wagner (1999)
Chad Ogea (1994-1998)
Denis Boucher (1992)
Dave Mlicki (1992)
Beau Allred (1991)
Jose Gonzalez (1991)
Steve Davis (1989)
Chris Codiroli (1988)
Mark Huismann (1987)
Don Schulze (1984-1986)
Dan Spillner (1978-1984)
Dennis Eckersley (1975-1977)
Denny Riddleberger (1972)
Gary Kroll (1969)
Steve Bailey (1967-1968)
Bob Heffner (1966)
Tommy John (1963-1964)
Jim Piersall (1959-1961)
Jim Constable (1958)
Bob Kelly (1958)
Johnny Gray (1957)
Billy Harrell (1957)
Rocky Nelson (1954)
Dick Weik (1953)
Larry Doby (1949)
Ed Klieman (1946)
Steve Biras (1944)
Bruce Connatser (1931-1932)
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.[5] 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.[1] 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.[6]
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."[7]
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.[8] 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.[9]
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.[9] 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.[2][8] The New York Times wrote about the company two years later.[6]
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.[10] 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.[11]
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.[13] Revenues rose to .2 million in 1999[14] and were .8 million in 2000.[15] Sales were more than million in 2001 according to ESPN.com[14] while Capolino reported annual sales of .5 million in 2001 to USA Today.[16] Sales rose to million in 2002.
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