July pick-ups [Archive] - Game Used Forums

reed1216

07-03-2007, 08:21 AM

I just got a game worn Lance Briggs jersey/pants set from AMI. It was worn during the Bears vs. Giants contest, on November 12, 2006 and has paperwork from Game Exclusives. I shows excellent game wear and, by the smell of it, it appears to be unwashed. Fortunately, the scent isn't too overwhelming and I can display the jersey in a cabinet that prevents the odor from spreading throughout the house. It's a great set for those of us who are Bears fans and aren't willing or able to spend $5K on an Urlacher. Now, I just have to hold out hope that he won't sit out or be traded. Gotta love these modern day athletes....

I also scored a 2004 game used Gary Sheffield helmet, with Steiner papers and holgram, from Grey Flannel's latest auction. I've been able to photomatch it to several Getty images and it shows awesome game use. Shef doesn't appear to be too gentle with his helmets....

reed1216

07-03-2007, 08:25 AM

Oh yeah... The items referred to in the previous posts, as well as the other equipment/jerseys in my collection can be viewed by following the link here.... http://community.webshots.com/user/Reed97

jon_8_us

07-03-2007, 11:13 AM

Lets see your recent pick-ups!

Latest additions to the Red Sox collection:

Julio Lugo, J.D. Drew, Dustin Pedroia, David Ortiz & Manny Ramirez. I photo matched the David Ortiz Nokona bat and will be posting photos soon.

Absolutely awesome!!!
jon

MichaelofSF

07-03-2007, 01:14 PM

2006 Mets Beltran Gamer with Steiner letter/hologram and MLB hologram. Now if anyone has access to full size wireimage.com pictures for 7-26-06 Cubs-Mets please let me know, trying to photo match. For anyone building a database it's a sz 46 +2 sleeve, set 1 2006.

http://us.a2.yahoofs.com/users/43e156e6z2579e1a3/78d0scd/__sr_/21f5scd.jpg?phAgpiGBbc9TQp8lhttp://us.a2.yahoofs.com/users/43e156e6z2579e1a3/78d0scd/__sr_/8e56scd.jpg?phAgpiGBDGIs2OZS

mchmaj

07-03-2007, 04:21 PM

I got really nice game used home randall godfrey #58 san diego chargers jersey
tons of wears and repairs !!! i brought it from NFL auction couple of weeks ago and it arrived this morning via UPS :)

marcus

dcrules01

07-03-2007, 04:48 PM

That Pedroia bat is awesome.I was just gonna start looking for one..Awesome Sox pick ups....

Lets see your recent pick-ups!

Latest additions to the Red Sox collection:

Julio Lugo, J.D. Drew, Dustin Pedroia, David Ortiz & Manny Ramirez. I photo matched the David Ortiz Nokona bat and will be posting photos soon.

gameused

07-03-2007, 09:36 PM

Oh yeah... The items referred to in the previous posts, as well as the other equipment/jerseys in my collection can be viewed by following the link here.... http://community.webshots.com/user/Reed97

reed1216,

Impressive collection of Yankees game worn jerseys and nice Sheffield helmet!

I have this photo of Mike Mussina vs. the Marlins on 6-25-06 saved on my computer and it looks to be an exact match to your jersey!

Bobby

reed1216

07-04-2007, 04:07 AM

Bobby,
Thanks a lot for the kind words and I really appreciate the photo!!

RKGIBSON

07-04-2007, 01:08 PM

Reed,

I went in and looked at your collection, nice stuff. The Briggs is a jersey I looked at buying also, I like it.

My latest purchase is the Cadillac Williams jersey from used on 11-13-06 vs Carolina. I have the game tape as well as photos. It came directly from Cadillac, after the game, and as you can see it is unrepaired or washed.

Roger

reed1216

07-05-2007, 05:38 AM

Roger,
Thanks for looking and expressing your kind words. That's an awesome Cadillac jersey. Congratulations on that and getting a video to match it!

dabadestalbo69

07-05-2007, 06:24 PM

Just got this in the other day. I bought it before he got traded. Kinda mad about it but its still a great jersey. Its game worn but not sure what game or games it was used for.

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f339/dabadestalbo69/blazer.jpg
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f339/dabadestalbo69/blazer1.jpg
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f339/dabadestalbo69/blazer2.jpg

Vintagedeputy

07-05-2007, 08:01 PM

Coming from Zanebats....thanks Zane!

Brian Giles uncracked gamer with good ball marks and pine tar. Giles was on my list of everyday guys that I just like for no particular reasons. At age 36, he may not have too many years left but he's a good everyday ballplayer.

http://home.comcast.net/~zebklmb/gil.JPG

http://home.comcast.net/~zebklmb/gil1.JPG
http://home.comcast.net/~zebklmb/gil2.JPG

ham1963

07-10-2007, 10:09 PM

Here is one of my pick-ups that I got off of MLB Auctions. It is a Rick Sweet mager of the Louisville Bat (AAA Farm team of the Cincinnati Reds)

MikeSimon

07-11-2007, 07:48 AM

2004 Chris Gomez
...First year for the Jays' new look!

gameused

07-12-2007, 09:18 PM

Picked up a few 2006 Red Sox bats pounded with game use:

Mark Loretta, Wily Mo Pena and Trot Nixon (I wish the Red Sox would have kept Trot!)

Eric

07-16-2007, 10:50 AM

Picked up a few baseball items over the weekend.

Two lineup cards from a 1989 spring training game- Mets vs Expos signed by the managers Davey Johnson and Buck Rogers. If anyone is interested in the lineup cards- shoot me an offer at ecky3@aol.com

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s194/ecky3/misc/HPIM3122.jpg
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s194/ecky3/misc/HPIM3123.jpg
1951 Yankees Program
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s194/ecky3/misc/HPIM3124.jpg

TNTtoys

07-16-2007, 11:44 AM

Brian Giles uncracked gamer with good ball marks and pine tar. Giles was on my list of everyday guys that I just like for no particular reasons. At age 36, he may not have too many years left but he's a good everyday ballplayer.

Funny you should say this. I feel the same about Giles. Don't ask me why, but I always liked him as well, following him from Cleveland to Pittsburgh, where he had some dynomite years. I too picked up a Giles Indians bat recently - probably about 2-3 months ago. It was a fairly cheap one - very lightly used, a couple of seam marks, rack marks, etc., but fairly clean otherwise. The thing I liked most about this bat is that the knob bears his name and #58, his original number with the tribe from his rookie season.

Vintagedeputy

07-16-2007, 12:47 PM

TNT - there's a few guys like Giles that for whatever reason, I just like the guy as an every day good ballplayer. Steve Finley is another, Mark Grace too.....guys like that.

Vintagedeputy

07-16-2007, 02:38 PM

Right after I replied, I heard a familiar thump at my door which usually means a package delivery and lo and behold, there was the bat.

Its even nicer in person!

TNTtoys

07-16-2007, 09:37 PM

Right after I replied, I heard a familiar thump at my door which usually means a package delivery and lo and behold, there was the bat.

Its even nicer in person!

Thought I'd post a few shots of mine for you...

Vintagedeputy

07-16-2007, 09:47 PM

Thats a nice one. I see a blue dot, any other ball marks?

dcrules01

07-16-2007, 09:48 PM

That Nixon is sweet one of my favorite players.Nice pickups guys I should have a few hopefully in the next week or 2.

TNTtoys

07-16-2007, 09:54 PM

Thats a nice one. I see a blue dot, any other ball marks?

Thanks -- I like it more for the fact that it is a rookie year bat than anything else. I have certainly have seen Giles bats with more use.
This one does not have many ball marks, I can count a handful. There are visible seam marks -- you can make out the outline of the entire seam in a number of places, but none of them will photograph against the black. Plenty of rack marks - a reddish color, but again, difficult to see by photograph. He signed the bat with "58 and Giles" on both ends but the barrel portion is half worn off. Again, not a heavily used bat, and looks even cleaner by photo -- probably why it was such a bargain.

dcrules01

07-17-2007, 02:50 PM

David Wright game used bat used between 5-12-07 and broken in the 9th inning on 5-15-07.Hit a hr on 5-14 in his 2nd ab of the game...

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k195/metsjerseys/Game%20Used/dwrightmarruchi005.jpg
http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k195/metsjerseys/Game%20Used/dwrightmarruchi004.jpg
http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k195/metsjerseys/Game%20Used/dwrightmarruchi003.jpg
http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k195/metsjerseys/Game%20Used/dwrightmarruchi002.jpg
http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k195/metsjerseys/Game%20Used/dwrightmarruchi001.jpg

stlbats

07-17-2007, 07:55 PM

Here are some pics of my newest addition.

Jason

Vintagedeputy

07-18-2007, 09:13 PM

Went to Nationals game tonight and stopped by the team store. They had a few destroyed bats including:

Zimmerman, snapped in half
Nick Johnson, sliced in half
2 badly cracked Jason Bergman bats
Ryan Church broken in half but the pieces fit together nicely
Jesus Flores, moderately cracked
Some unknown former Braves pitcher. Couldnt read the sig. Employees said that he was called up by the Nats. It had nice use and a unique "Posadaesq" tape job. Sure wish I knew who the sig belonged to.

After some searching, I came away with this. Sorry for the crazy large pics, I was trying a new setting on the digital. It has his 23 on the knob and barrel, a blue ball mark on the knob, lots of rack marks and a couple of ball marks and some grain seperation on the back. The MLB hologram is damaged though and I can only read the last 3 numbers. DO they put the hologram on before its used? There is a mark that goes the length of the barrel and across the hologram.

A slightly cracked Brian Schneider LS model E53:

http://img475.imageshack.us/img475/8307/schneider001ct6.jpg

http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/9378/schneider002gc4.jpg

http://img475.imageshack.us/img475/2656/schneider005bg2.jpg

http://img475.imageshack.us/img475/9574/schneider008wi1.jpg

Vintagedeputy

07-18-2007, 09:15 PM

Forgot to add - the brown color across "Louis" is pine tar. Its also all down the handle. My first Nats gamer and a really nice one.

Eric

07-21-2007, 10:41 PM

Picked up a nice Tokyo Giants road jersey of Bill Gullickson

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s194/ecky3/Game%20Used%20Collection/Baseball/Other%20Baseball%20Jerseys/HPIM3129.jpg

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s194/ecky3/Game%20Used%20Collection/Baseball/Other%20Baseball%20Jerseys/HPIM3130.jpg

indyred

07-21-2007, 10:54 PM

Some great pick ups all around.
The David Eckstein Cardinals bat is really nice. Isn't he one of those guys that you rarely see any game used stuff of his on the market, kinda like Biggio.

thomecollector

07-23-2007, 07:21 PM

Here's A Nice Early Thome That I Just Picked Up. This One Was Part Of A Batch That Had His Name Messed Up. Check Out The Use !!!:d

Sheffield11

07-31-2007, 12:04 AM

Hey Bobby, i know we have been emailing back and forth about your manny bat for sale, and when looking through manny photos i may have found a match to bat you posted in this thread. pics are below, notice the interesting white mark under boston red sox.

Pinstripes

07-31-2007, 01:50 AM

I just picked this up from Ron over at CSI.

gameused

07-31-2007, 04:01 AM

Sheffield11,

Thank you for finding that getty photo. It's definetly the same bat. Looks like Manny used two different Sam bats on 4-29-07 vs the Yankees, one with a silver cross and one with just the maple leaf sticker on the knob.

When I got the bat in, it was dated 4-4-06 on the top of the barrel and nothing written on the knob just the "made in canada" maple sticker on the knob.

The pine tar was still pretty tacky and I had a hunch that it might have been used earlier this year but the taped knob had me guessing as it look like a late 2006 season Manny tape job.

I previously found a photo on Corbis of Manny vs Orioles on 4-26-07 swinging a similar bat with tape job and no uniform number written on the end of the knob and I thought it looked like the bat I have. Now that you found that getty image of Manny vs Yankees on 4-29-07, I'm sure its the same bat in the photo vs the Orioles, the white mark matches up and also the pine tar application. I'll post some better pics of the match later.

Thanks again, Bobby

Manny vs Orioles 4-26-07

woodbat

08-01-2007, 04:53 PM

TNTtoys

08-01-2007, 09:43 PM

Noted the discussion by Vintagedeputy and TNTtoys regarding Brian Giles bats. I picked this one up in Feb 1999. Wondered if you folks had ever seen a Brian Giles St Louis Cardinal bat? Here are a few pictures of his H238 LS.
Information on this bat would be appreciated. Thanks,

woodbat@bellsouth.net

On the Giles bat... yes, you have something fairly unusual, but not 100% surprising. Recently, there was a discussion on this forum regarding LVS bats with wrong teams printed for certain players. Two examples were given:
Tino Martinez, Baltimore Orioles
Benny Agbayani, Philadelphia Phillies
I'd chalk yours up as another LVS blunder. I'd also keep it if I were you -- you have an interesting collectible.

My only question would be whether or not Giles actually used the bat... Giles did wear #22 for a couple of years in Cleveland. Is it his bat? The timing of your purchase is just after his last season with this #, so it would make sense to me that it's his bat... but there is also the chance the bat was part of the Cardinals organization. When you bought the bat, did you receive any provenance?

woodbat

08-01-2007, 10:16 PM

On the Giles bat... yes, you have something fairly unusual, but not 100% surprising. Recently, there was a discussion on this forum regarding LVS bats with wrong teams printed for certain players. Two examples were given:
Tino Martinez, Baltimore Orioles
Benny Agbayani, Philadelphia Phillies
I'd chalk yours up as another LVS blunder. I'd also keep it if I were you -- you have an interesting collectible.

My only question would be whether or not Giles actually used the bat... Giles did wear #22 for a couple of years in Cleveland. Is it his bat? The timing of your purchase is just after his last season with this #, so it would make sense to me that it's his bat... but there is also the chance the bat was part of the Cardinals organization. When you bought the bat, did you receive any provenance?

TNTtoys,
Bat was purchased 022199 from Sportswarehouse, paid $31 (price was right), and no provenance provided. They just listed it a Cardinal game bat of Brian Giles. I only collect Cardinal bats and tried to find information that he was ever part of the Cardinal organization but no luck. I thought it an error bat before, but wondered if some of you folks might have any information on it. Also wondered if it was/is an error how many more are out there? I don't think players just order one bat at a time. I have never seen another. Appreciated your response.

woodbat@bellsouth.net

Vintagedeputy

08-01-2007, 11:02 PM

There was a rumor in 2005 that Giles was headed to the Cardinals (http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=26901) but if you got the bat in '99, I'm stumped......maybe there was a deal in place that fell through and someone at LS started making bats prematurely?

godwulf

08-02-2007, 02:04 AM

Diamondbacks prospect Justin Upton (B.J.'s little brother) wore and signed this jersey on his last day in single-A ball, with Visalia; he's now with double-A Mobile, and could even be up with the big club by the end of the year - they say he's that good.

http://i23.ebayimg.com/06/i/000/a8/2f/5c2a_12.JPG

For a pink jersey, it's not bad looking!

I enjoy picking up "oddball" jerseys of DBacks-related players. After the team's #1 draft pick a couple of years ago, Stephen Drew (J.D.'s younger brother) held out for part of the year and went to play with the indy Camden Riversharks, they auctioned a couple of his jerseys to benefit charity after he finally signed and left that team, and I got the road jersey - got him to sign it a couple of months ago.

I've also managed to get Team USA jerseys for a couple of DBacks players or prospects, including Mark Reynolds' '06 road jersey, worn in the series where they defeated Cuba in the final game of the tournament.