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Clearly there is an error on that bat with the team name. Although I guess it's possible the nameplate is stamped wrong if Michael never ordered bats like that one.
It's happened before with wrong team names, in fact there's a BJ Upton for sale now with "Seattle Mariners" as the team. BJ has never been associated with the M's, ever.
Always looking for Seattle Mariners & anything of Felix Hernandez, Jay Buhner, Richie Sexson and Arthur Rhodes.
Sounds like what might be an interesting thread: "Bats with the wrong team name".
Of course, occasionally a player will be a non-roster invitee to somebody's Spring Training, and they'll get bats made up with the name of a team that they end up never actually playing for during the regular season, and usually the reference sites, like The Baseball Cube don't even make note of it. Those wouldn't really be "error" bats, and I've got quite a few of those in my collection - guys who never played for the Diamondbacks, but they had bats made up for ST.
I remember some time ago someone posting (possibly w/photos?) about a Jeter bat with a "New York Mets" inscription. I'm thinking that was a genuine screw-up.
The only - what I believe to be - genuine screw-up-at-the-factory bat that I own is a Luke Allen Diamondbacks bat; I actually have two, and the first one came from a Clubbie for the Rockies' Triple-A team, who told me that Allen got an entire order mis-labeled like that, and just decided to use them rather than send them back.
I was reading a thread the other day about teams maybe making up a jersey for somebody they're trying to sign, which might explain the oddball jersey you see every so often of a player and team that never happened. Do you suppose the same thing is ever done with bats? I'm guessing No, simply because I don't believe that a team can order just one bat, particularly not a Louisville Slugger - that the minimum order would be, what, six? a dozen? (BMH?)
Speaking of Brian, I wonder whether he'd be able to take a peek back in the records and clear up the mystery of the Jackson bat, at least.
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