Hey everyone-
I don't collect bats. Never did and probably won't, but I'm learning a lot about them from all of you.
Here's a question I have which occurred to me based on the grading to the Tris Speaker bat and Mickey Mantle coaches bat.
How important is it to you that the items exactly match factory records?
In the two cases above, they were graded very high since even though they didn't match the numbers in the records, it was in essence close enough.
Close enough in this case means either the player could have ordered something of these specifications even though there's no record of it specifically.
As a jersey collector, if I knew in 2002 Peyton Manning always wore long sleeves and there was a short sleeved jersey for sale, close enough wouldn't cut it for me.
If someone told me that in 2001 Manning had short sleeves, but there is no evidence of him doing it in 2002, I would not buy the item.
Since I don't collect bats, I was wondering what your thoughts are. Is close enough good enough?
And while in my area of collecting, jerseys, the buyer can do more research on his own, with bats you have to rely on those who hold the rare bat records. Is it always clear how people interpret the reocrds, or can two people look at the same record, and reach two different conclusions?
Eric
I don't collect bats. Never did and probably won't, but I'm learning a lot about them from all of you.
Here's a question I have which occurred to me based on the grading to the Tris Speaker bat and Mickey Mantle coaches bat.
How important is it to you that the items exactly match factory records?
In the two cases above, they were graded very high since even though they didn't match the numbers in the records, it was in essence close enough.
Close enough in this case means either the player could have ordered something of these specifications even though there's no record of it specifically.
As a jersey collector, if I knew in 2002 Peyton Manning always wore long sleeves and there was a short sleeved jersey for sale, close enough wouldn't cut it for me.
If someone told me that in 2001 Manning had short sleeves, but there is no evidence of him doing it in 2002, I would not buy the item.
Since I don't collect bats, I was wondering what your thoughts are. Is close enough good enough?
And while in my area of collecting, jerseys, the buyer can do more research on his own, with bats you have to rely on those who hold the rare bat records. Is it always clear how people interpret the reocrds, or can two people look at the same record, and reach two different conclusions?
Eric
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