1980s St.Louis Cardinals Rawlings Jersey Tee Size XL
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Rawlings made this St. Louis Cardinals jersey tee sometime in the 1980s, and that tag alone tells you something about the era. Rawlings was the Cardinals' official on-field supplier through most of that decade, which means this garment was living in the same product family as the actual game jerseys. White V-neck, birds-on-bat screen print in Cardinals red, striped collar ribbing. Size XL.
The Cardinals in the 1980s were one of the defining baseball programs of the decade. Whitey Herzog's teams won the World Series in 1982, went back in 1985 and 1987. Ozzie Smith, Willie McGee, Jack Clark, Vince Coleman. The Rawlings relationship ran deep through all of it: when fans bought Cardinals gear in that period, Rawlings was the name on the label, not a licensed afterthought. The birds-on-bat logo the shirt carries is the pre-1998 version, before the club modernized the mark, which puts this squarely in the range collectors associate with that run of Busch Stadium pennant-chasing baseball. Rawlings has been manufacturing sports equipment since 1887 and the Cardinals partnership went back decades before the 1980s, but this jersey tee format, the lightweight screen-print-over-cotton construction built to move retail, was a product of the mass-market licensing boom that defined MLB apparel in the Reagan years.
Rawlings made the jerseys and the merch, same supplier for the clubhouse and the stands.
This copy is white ground with no visible bleed or ghosting on the print from what we can assess. The V-neck collar rib has the stripe detail intact. Lightweight cotton construction means it wears closer to a tee than a traditional flannel jersey, which is exactly the intention: this was retail fan wear, not a replica. XL. Hang it or wear it, the birds-on-bat reads clean at distance. Run your eye along the collar stitch before anything else. That's where 40-year-old ribbing either holds or shows you the life it has lived.
OWNER VERIFY: Confirm production decade via Rawlings label text and copyright line on the tag. Label wording shifted across the 1980s and can help narrow the year range.
Rawlings made the jerseys and the merch, same supplier for the clubhouse and the stands.
70s / 80s Sportswear
70s and 80s sportswear at the shop is pre-licensing, pre-collab, pre-resell. Single-stitch tees, raglan sleeves, chain-stitched team names, blanks that outlasted the brands printed on them. 80s apparel arrives creased, sun-softened, sometimes repaired by a previous owner. We leave the repairs, note them in the photos, and list each garment against the tag.
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Inspected in Las Vegas on June 2026. Each piece is a single unit, sold as inspected.
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This 1980s st.louis cardinals rawlings jersey tee size xl originates from the 80s era[01], represents MLB[02]'s output, . Each piece in the shop is a single unit, inspected by hand in Las Vegas before listing. The data manifest to the right records the fields on file for this lot; where a field is empty it has been omitted rather than guessed.
INSPECTED IN STORE / 707 E FREMONT, LAS VEGAS
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- 80s
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