It’s an Unlicensed Jersey, Charlie Brown!

A few days ago, I began to see some intriguing ads on Facebook — baseball jerseys, with Peanuts characters.

I made the mistake — I suppose you can call it that — of clicking on one of the ads, as my feed is now full of these ads. Different sellers, same product.

I can’t imagine the quality is especially good, given the price — about thirty dollars — and can’t possibly be licensed, because there are jerseys with Mickey Mouse, Deadpool, Studio Ghibli (as shown by Totoro above), various bands. And practically every team! The Cubs. The Orioles. The Phillies.

But not, as far as I can tell, the Nationals. These websites have search functions, and they were good at bringing up teams under their names as well as the characters on the jerseys, but no search would bring me any Washington Nationals products at all. Commanders, yes. Nationals, no.

What a curious absence.

No, I’m not ordered any of these. I’m not trusting my credit card number to an unknown site like this.

Published by Allyn Gibson

A writer, editor, journalist, sometimes coder, occasional historian, and all-around scholar, Allyn Gibson is the writer for Diamond Comic Distributors' monthly PREVIEWS catalog, used by comic book shops and throughout the comics industry, and the editor for its monthly order forms. In his over ten years in the industry, Allyn has interviewed comics creators and pop culture celebrities, covered conventions, analyzed industry revenue trends, and written copy for comics, toys, and other pop culture merchandise. Allyn is also known for his short fiction (including the Star Trek story "Make-Believe,"the Doctor Who short story "The Spindle of Necessity," and the ReDeus story "The Ginger Kid"). Allyn has been blogging regularly with WordPress since 2004.

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