Local collector Chris Nerat finds Green Bay Dodgers jersey on eBay

Chris Nerat is known by many in the sports memorabilia community as one of the top Green Bay Packers collectors in the country. But it doesn’t keep him from picking up oddball items that help tell some of the history of Green Bay. He has a ticket stub from a sold-out Elvis Presley concert at Brown County Veterans Memorial Arena on April 28, 1977, just four months before the legendary singer died.

The 2001 University of Wisconsin-Green Bay graduate has a UWGB basketball jersey from the 1970s on display at his home. He owns the W-E-S-T letters that once stood above the West Theatre marquee. When Nerat came across an auction item on eBay earlier this year while doing his daily Packers search, it immediately caught his eye.

It was a 1960 Green Bay Dodgers baseball jersey, representing the former local minor league team affiliated with the Los Angeles Dodgers . As soon as Nerat saw the jersey, he had to have it. He was willing to bid as much as $4,000 but won it for a total of $1,077.

08. “I just thought it was beautiful and didn’t want to lose it,” he said. It will never be worth anything close to many of the Packers items he buys and sells, but the pickup was far more about the history of the piece than potential profit.