After 20 years, i finally landed my Dream Bat - MCGWIRE HR BAT !!!!!

[panthrotc]

Christmas came early. Worked out a deal to bring home the McGwire Bat of my dreams today!!! Did your grandpa want a bat that babe ruth hit a HR with? Did your dad want a bat that Mickey Mantle hit a bomb with?? Well growing up as a little kid and even now into my adult life i have always wanted a McGwire HR bat. They exist, he was known to give them away to teamates,coaches and friends, but they never pop up for sale. Today i obtained a bat that was given to one of his teamates during his final season in 2001. His 2001 bats are already IMPOSSIBLE to find nonetheless a HR bat is just flat out rediculously impossible to obtain. I present to you, the bat of my dreams.....
Career HR # 576 , hit in Cinncinatti on August 21,2001

[panthrotc]

Re: After 20 years, i finally landed my Dream Bat - MCGWIRE HR BAT !!!!!

BTW, the answer is no, i did not pay 24,999$.

[metsbats]

Re: After 20 years, i finally landed my Dream Bat - MCGWIRE HR BAT !!!!!

Great bat! Congrats!

[punch]

Re: After 20 years, i finally landed my Dream Bat - MCGWIRE HR BAT !!!!!

Pretty awesome.

[ironmanfan]

Re: After 20 years, i finally landed my Dream Bat - MCGWIRE HR BAT !!!!!

Congrats.....Two thoughts:

-details on how you acquired it?

-do you have any pictures or video of him hitting this HR?

Good Job!

IMF

[panthrotc]

Re: After 20 years, i finally landed my Dream Bat - MCGWIRE HR BAT !!!!!

Congrats.....Two thoughts:

-details on how you acquired it?

-do you have any pictures or video of him hitting this HR?

Good Job!

IMF

cash and trade.

i don't have any pictures of him hitting the HR. i can't find one on getty. The seller has MLB player connect. The player is still in the pros and was a teammate of Mac's in 01. he got the bat direct from him.

If anyone knows any other picture archive site PLEASE LET ME KNOW

[STLHAMMER32]

Re: After 20 years, i finally landed my Dream Bat - MCGWIRE HR BAT !!!!!

This is probably the nicest Mac bat I have seen in an auction. Congrats! I saw this come up for sale and was very curious as to what it would sell for. I hope you can find a photo of that HR, I actually remember seeing that game I believe. It was hit by a construction area in left center if my memory is correct.

[Birdbats]

Re: After 20 years, i finally landed my Dream Bat - MCGWIRE HR BAT !!!!!

Nice! Congrats!

[STLHAMMER32]

Re: After 20 years, i finally landed my Dream Bat - MCGWIRE HR BAT !!!!!

cash and trade.

i don't have any pictures of him hitting the HR. i can't find one on getty. The seller has MLB player connect. The player is still in the pros and was a teammate of Mac's in 01. he got the bat direct from him.

If anyone knows any other picture archive site PLEASE LET ME KNOW

I found a photo of him batting in 2001 and I think it is at cincinnati. It may be the hr swing but not positive. Could someone give me some advice on posting photos on here?!

[gameused]

Re: After 20 years, i finally landed my Dream Bat - MCGWIRE HR BAT !!!!!

Sweet pick-up! Always Nice to see these kinds of post.

Thanks for sharing your dream bat!

Bobby

[panthrotc]

Re: After 20 years, i finally landed my Dream Bat - MCGWIRE HR BAT !!!!!

I found a photo of him batting in 2001 and I think it is at cincinnati. It may be the hr swing but not positive. Could someone give me some advice on posting photos on here?!

PLEASE POST THE PHOTO or email me it!! Thundercats83@aol.com

I have looked but i can not ANY photos from that game. On getty they have reds phots on august 20th and then not anther one until mid september. why, i do not know. But i looked on getty, yahoo, google, AP, i can not find any photos of mac from this game. HELP!!

[STLHAMMER32]

Re: After 20 years, i finally landed my Dream Bat - MCGWIRE HR BAT !!!!!

I ll give the posting a try......I remember this particular homerun because I was eating at Damons and stayed to watch Macs at bat. I remember him hitting it where there was no stands anymore. He wasn't always in the lineup due to an injury plagued year but I remember watching every at bat that I could. I have several games from 2001 on tape and saved most of the mac HR's. I dont think I recorded this partucular game but I will check the archives lol.

The photo is from 2001 and looks to be cinicinnati's dugout in my opinion....

[panthrotc]

Re: After 20 years, i finally landed my Dream Bat - MCGWIRE HR BAT !!!!!

if you happen to have this HR on tape in the archive i will be in debt forever!! I appreciate the help

[rj_lucas]

Re: After 20 years, i finally landed my Dream Bat - MCGWIRE HR BAT !!!!!

You might try submitting a photo request to Pictopia, who manages the photo archives for the Associated Press:

http://gallery.pictopia.com/ap/requests/

McGwire was well-covered by photographers in those last few years, so you might have a shot at turning something up. Best of luck.

Rick
rickjlucas@gmail.com

[legaleagle92481]

Re: After 20 years, i finally landed my Dream Bat - MCGWIRE HR BAT !!!!!

It is a very nice bat but to compare it to a Mantle or a Ruth is just absurd. Mac is an admitted cheater who even with the Roids was not near the league of a Mantle or a Ruth, two of the greatest players ever and all he did was hit home runs. He was a lesser version of Harmon Killebrew.