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Thread: 1976 Bench Bat Question
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05-14-2009, 04:09 PM #1
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1976 Bench Bat Question
Has anyone ever seen a 1976 game used bat that looks like this one? I have never seen a brown colored bat with gold writing from 1976.
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Scott
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05-14-2009, 06:11 PM #2
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Re: 1976 Bench Bat Question
Have never seen one.
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05-14-2009, 09:33 PM #3
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Re: 1976 Bench Bat Question
Me, neither. What's on the knob?
Ken
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05-15-2009, 07:40 AM #4
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Re: 1976 Bench Bat Question
Nothing other than the number 5 written in old magic marker...
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05-15-2009, 12:33 PM #5
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Re: 1976 Bench Bat Question
What's the model number on the barrel and the length of the bat ?? Is it cupped or uncupped?
Mike jackitout7@aol.com
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05-16-2009, 10:40 PM #6
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Re: 1976 Bench Bat Question
Either way...it's not NEAR worth the 3 grande that the guy is asking for..
It is a cupped bat.
Mike - Why aren't any of Bench's bats marked cupped...when some obviously are?
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Jeff
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05-17-2009, 12:37 PM #7
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Re: 1976 Bench Bat Question
The cupped "C" designation is found in the player's personal H & B ordering records, but most of the time the C designation was not included on the model number barrel stamping. I guess it's kind of like when my wife was buying a new gas range recently. She asked the salesman "So when this little red light on the front panel is on, that means that the burner is on ?" The salesman's astute reply was, "Yes, that and and the flame around the burner."
Mike jackitout7@aol.com
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05-17-2009, 04:04 PM #8
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Re: 1976 Bench Bat Question
The brown color with gold writing has thrown me for a curve ball. I have never seen any other Bench bat, or any other player's bat for from 1976, with the gold writing on it.
Scott
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05-19-2009, 04:00 PM #9
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Re: 1976 Bench Bat Question
Never say never, but the gold print 1976 bat is a design I've never seen before, either. Seems to me that the gold and silver print LS bats, at least from what I have handled, started in or a little ways either side of 1990.
Dave M.
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05-19-2009, 05:36 PM #10
Re: 1976 Bench Bat Question
This bat does not have the registered trademark next to Bench's signature from what I can see ( or does it?)
There was an old thread about a Bench store model bat (JB5 on the knob) which had Bench's signature without the registered trademark.
While this bat does not have anything stamped on the knob could it be possible that HB made souvenir BiCent bats of star players to sell in the Red's gift shop during the 76 season?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.