Just wanted to give people a heads up about the Joe Jackson bat currently on ebay:
Item #331908981092
While it looks like it may be a legit Jackson bat, to me it looks like a YMCA bat that was sent over to Europe during WWI as part of a moral booster for the troops.
I would guess that the YMCA brand has been sanded off, along with sanding down some of the center brand itself so as to keep the bat's dimensions consistent (thus the shallow center brand and loss of brand on the Left). The bat was then refinished to most likely hide the fact that it was sanded down.
This, on top of the fact that the bat was found in Germany, makes me think that it's the YMCA variation, and never even came close to being in the hands of Shoeless Joe.
Just my two cents.
Item #331908981092
While it looks like it may be a legit Jackson bat, to me it looks like a YMCA bat that was sent over to Europe during WWI as part of a moral booster for the troops.
I would guess that the YMCA brand has been sanded off, along with sanding down some of the center brand itself so as to keep the bat's dimensions consistent (thus the shallow center brand and loss of brand on the Left). The bat was then refinished to most likely hide the fact that it was sanded down.
This, on top of the fact that the bat was found in Germany, makes me think that it's the YMCA variation, and never even came close to being in the hands of Shoeless Joe.
Just my two cents.
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