I have yet to wear this ’68 CA license plate LSTDVBR T, but I like the shirt.
The Interstate Exit Sign shirt I also bought at the same time, I wore 1x to see a Dead/Funk/RB band I'm friends with. People at the show liked it, and most know me as not only a lifelong baseball fan, but also understood why I wore it to a show by a band heavily influenced by the Dead! (This shirt should only be offered in Yellow, C’mon guys, the A’s colors are white, green, and yellow, and white T-shirts have a short life expectancy before a stain ultimately ruins the pristine white shirt)
When I do wear this LSTDVBR T the next time I see the Victor Brown Band, I hope people get it, here in Chicago. It’s much more an Oakland thing.
My love of the A's goes back to '72. I was just shy of my 10th birthday, when we moved to Chicago, after 5 years in Brussels, BE. I had never seen a MLB game on TV before August of '72, and now I got both Cubs and Sox games on TV. Being from Detroit originally, I was glued to the tv and watched every inning of the Tigers/A's playoffs in '72. That pristine look of an MLB field in sunshine, the A's being "that hippy looking team from the Bay area", and them beating my Tigers, then going on to 3 consecutive World Series wins, cemented my love of the A's and their Cool factor. Going forward, I always made sure to watching any Sox / A's game in Oakland on TV. Then we got Jermaine Dye (one of my favorite A's players of the era). The only home run ball I ever caught, was Jermaine's 9th, in 2009, from my season tickets right next to the Sox bullpen. I eventually got him to sign the ball, via my season ticket AE. (Thanks Natalie and Jermaine).
In 2019, I was on my ABC (Alcohol, Baseball, Cannabis) tour of CA, and I got to attend a game at the Oakland Coliseum, with a Chicago White Sox fan and former Chicago roommate I’d known since HS, who moved to the Bay area to get married, and lives there with his wife and kids. We went to a Tiger's / A's game, so I got to live out my memories of the '72 playoffs on TV, live at Baseball's Last Dive Bar.
