Question about Rawlings/Adirondack Date Stamp

[5kRunner]

I've recently picked up a Mark Grace Rawlings/Adirondack bat. The label dates the bat from 87-89. I know from 80-88 date codes were single digits. 8=1988 I thought I read in 89 dates were changed to two digit codes. 89=1989 But the code on my bat is 09. Is this bat from 1989?

[bat_master]

Hi Scott,

Your bat is from 1989. In 1990 the year code became '90'.

[5kRunner]

Great! Thanks Tim!

[Vintagedeputy]

Scott - can you show pics of the rest of the bat?

Jim

[5kRunner]

Scott - can you show pics of the rest of the bat?

Jim, ask and you shall receive.

Not a lot of pine tar. But according to every picture I've seen, Grace didn't use a lot of pine tar early in his career.

Sorry for the low res pics. I can't seem to figure out my wife's digital camera, so I had to use the webcam.