This road grey beauty could be the very first jersey ever worn in Major League competition by the iconic southpaw, as Sandy Koufax would debut on June 24, 1955 in the fifth inning of a visit to the Milwaukee Braves.
The twenty-year old lefty would display both his rookie nerves and his fighting spirit in that first appearance, recording a throwing error and loading the bases with no outs before striking out notorious Dodger killer Bobby Thomson and then inducing Joe Adcock into a double-play grounder to end the threat.
With standard practice in the Majors at this time providing two home and two road uniforms to each player, the odds that the presented jersey is the one that Koufax wore in his debut is an even fifty-fifty. We also remind bidders that Game Seven of the 1955 World Series was played at Yankee Stadium, so celebratory locker room champagne may lurk deep in the fibers of the garment.
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