I recently purchased from a collector a large lot of signed baseballs and other items. Among the items were two bats - both described to me as "actual bats used in a game." The Seaver bat as shown below and another Tiger bat from the mid 60's. I don't know anything about bats, so looking to the "experts" for their opinion. I tried to find photos of Seaver with a bat and searched for Seaver gamers and literally nothing comes up. Most all photos of Seaver of course were of him pitching. Did pitchers have their own bats? There are a couple of marks on the bat but it looks like it is in too nice of shape to be a gamer from that time period. Thanks in advance for anything you may share with me. You can reply to the thread or I can be reached - Levenick at TIR dot com
Tom Seaver GU Bat??
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Re: Tom Seaver GU Bat??
I'm pretty sure that Seaver was a Louisville Slugger guy, but someone please correct me if I'm wrong. -
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The bat, based on the label and the blue pro ring, looks to date from sometime in the early 1970's (I don't recall offhand the year that Adirondack replaced the "teepee" logo with this one) through 1977, when he was dealt to the Reds (Reds gamer bats would have a red pro ring).
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Tom Seaver had a contract with Adirondack hence the signature model. He did also use HB bats but they were non contract block letter "SEAVER" models.
Looks to me like a game used pro model Seaver bat as it does no have any number on the knob and no evidence of pine tar or use.
Nice rare bat though.metsbats86@aol.com
Always looking for 1973,1986,1988,1999,2000,2006 game used Mets post season and Bobby M. Jones and Ed Hearn NY Mets game used bats.Comment
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