Bat Question

[AWA85]

How hard is it to get a bat with a somewhat common players name on it, such as Edwin Encarnacion of the Reds? Are these all over the market, or does have a common players name on the bat make it a pretty sure thing? Just curious, about some of these items?

[godwulf]

I don't know about other sources, but I see that there's one on eBay at the moment.

http://cgi.ebay.com/EDWIN-ENCARNACIO...QQcmdZViewItem

[bigtruck260]

A good question for someone who is just starting out.

I have plenty of commons. Doubtful that many are forged/faked and I have pruchased commons for under $20. Not bad for players that I enjoyed watching. Once you hit the $100 threshold, there is that chance that someone is doctoring things ("using" an issued bat, etc).

You can have 100 commons for the price of some superstar bats.

Dave

[AWA85]

I saw that and really wanted it thats why I asked. Thanks for your help, but you can't just get bats with common players names engraved on it can you is what i am asking? Also that ebay one was from spring training, dose that still have game used value or does it matter?

Thanks

[godwulf]

I saw that and really wanted it thats why I asked. Thanks for your help, but you can't just get bats with common players names engraved on it can you is what i am asking? Also that ebay one was from spring training, dose that still have game used value or does it matter?

Do you mean, could you or I order a bat with some "common" player's name on it? There's a Louisville Slugger employee here on the board who could no doubt give you an authoritative answer, but I've always heard, No - not from one of the major bat companies, anyway. I thought you were asking about where to find one.

As bigtruck said, I don't think you have to be overly concerned that a non-superstar's bat has been forged or faked. Not when the beginning bid price (and often the winning bid price) is less than what it would cost to buy a new, unmarked bat - not to mention the time and energy involved in making it look like some utility player or minor star's gamer.

As for a bat being from ST, I guess the final arbiter (or "decider", as GWB would say ) of the value of a bat that you know came from ST is you, yourself. I have many bats in my collection that I know for a fact came from ST ('cause in several case, the player they belonged to wasn't with the team when ST ended), and if anything, I value them because of their relative rarity.

I recently bought a bat that was listed as having been used by "David Hulse, Arizona Diamondbacks". My initial reaction was, "Who?" Researched it, and it turns out that Hulse was signed in February of '98, and was gone by the end of March. Got to be a rare bat, though no doubt it will never be valuable (unless Hulse gets famous for something other than Baseball). I also have a Hector Carrasco DBacks bat - he never made the team, either; I heard that he was the 26th man coming out of ST in '98. It's sort of an oddball sub-collection, I guess you might say. It's all what you enjoy.

[AWA85]

Thank you very much for your help. That last post cleared up a lot for me, just wasn't sure if you could walk into a sports store and find many bats with players names on it. The guys story matched up also, so I feel safe purchasing from the BAY.

Thank you for your help.