The truth about that jersey and the uniform is that once upon a time Texas didn't have nice new uniforms, hard to believe but it was.
In the 1980's a guy I knew designed those uniforms after a design from the 60's.
I pitched them to Coach Gus, and he finally agreed if we could get them and the money.
With the help of the baseball club, there was no Longhorn Foundation then, we made it happened.
I placed the order with the same company in California that made the Dodger's uniforms.
It took a while to get them, the team thought I was just making it up.
Then one day at practice a Fed EX truck pulled up and I went out and the guy asked me where to deliver these uniforms.
I said let me show you and I took him down to the locker room.
I walked in first and I think it was Doug Hodo said sarcastically when are we getting those uniforms.
I smiled and said right now. The delivery guy wheeled in the boxes.
They had name plates, but Gus wasn't having that. They wore them for several years.
Then in 1989, a manager saw them and really liked them, and they wore them for that title game, which we unfortunately lost to Wichita State.
When that manager was about to graduate, he called me and in the dead of night we went to the third base locker room in a closed area where all the uniforms were kept.
He gave me the one pictured, which is #26. It was Coach Bill Bethea's jersey. I got #32 for the guy that designed the uniforms, which belonged to Bryan Cisarik.