Post Your Photo-matched Game-used Items Here

[gingi79]

Photomatched three of my Sami Salo jerseys today but the biggest surprise was finally finding a match for my rookie sweater. It's a 998/99 away Senators jersey that very well may be his first ever NHL sweater.

[Juan Gris]

I believe I've photo matched my black Adam Dunn LVS I13 bat that I picked up this past weekend at the National Sports Collectors Convention. The card in question is a 2003 Upper Deck MVP Sports Nut #SN16 and the photo on the card is from a 2002 game. I tried my best to recreate the lighting and bat angle in the photo but, it being a black bat, this was the best I could do. The positioning of the 2 ball transfer marks are identical as well as the pine tar application above the LVS logo. Let me know what you guys think!

[gnishiyama]

Not sure if its an exact photo match but definately an interesting style match. Heres a Hideki Matsui bat used by Jorge Posada. Apparently in 2005 Posada was in a pretty bad slump and decided to use Hideki Matsui's bat for a short period of time when batting left handed.

Goh

Always buying signed and game-used memorabilia of past and present Japanese MLB players

[CollectGU]

There are alot of great items posted with rock solid provenance, so I know i am going to catch heat for this. Something is not considered a phtomatch UNLESS there is a distinguishing chracteristic on the piece ( dirts, sweat stain, fabric pull, repair, ball mark etc..) that you can match to a photo. It doesn't matter if a player handed you the jersey , bat, cleat, glove etc...To be a photo match, you must "match (hence the word) it (that exact item)" to a photo..Some have done it in this thread and some have not..that is not to take away from any of the items as they are all nice pieces. That's what makes a having a photo match so special, it's difficult and rare to do. A photo match leaves practically no doubt and to many actually holds more weight than a team or player LOA...

[ironmanfan]

Thats the point I was trying to make the with the Lankford shoes (you did a better job explaining it).

[gameused]

Here's one of my favorite items in my collection, a 2005 Home Run derby bat used by David Ortiz. Ortiz hit a total of 20 Home runs with this LVS B9 bat. You can see the pine tar stains from his gloves just above the B9 logo, also there's a photo of Ortiz sitting in the dugout and the wood grain and pine tar match up perfect. The right barrel area of this bat is just pounded with deep ball seam marks.

[thomecollector]

Great job. There are some awesome matches on here. I have a question. I have a '95 World Series jersey from Jim Thome. I have been looking for pics. But have turn up nothing from that year. Any ideas where I may look ??Thanks,Roger

[eGameUsed]

Many of you that know me know I am a sucker for photo-matched Astros items. My favorite is detailed here:

http://www.egameused.com/clemens_2004_jersey.html

Thanks,

[3arod13]

Great thread and nice matches! Are there any other websites than Getty Images where I can find more pics of baseball players in action? Thanks!

[kylehess10]

Great thread and nice matches! Are there any other websites than Getty Images where I can find more pics of baseball players in action? Thanks!

There is corbis images (www.corbisimages.com) and other than that I always check google images,yahoo images,& ask.com images.