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Thread: any ideas on who this is?
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02-16-2010, 11:46 AM #21
Re: any ideas on who this is?
Regards,
Joel S.
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Wanted: Alex Rodriguez Game Used Items and other unique artifacts, 1992 thru 1998 only. From High School to Early Mariners.
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02-16-2010, 01:09 PM #22
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Re: any ideas on who this is?
wow Joel your the man!! I never would have figured that out
thank you
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02-16-2010, 01:37 PM #23
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02-16-2010, 01:41 PM #24
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02-16-2010, 06:23 PM #25
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Re: any ideas on who this is?
Finally we figured it out
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02-16-2010, 07:59 PM #26
Re: any ideas on who this is?
Chris,
Like minds use the same tools. For some reason a spreadsheet calms me when doing any repetitive task and as you know deciphering a team baseball can be very time consuming. The spreadsheet reminds me of what I have tried and what possibilities are left. And then there are the players who sign the baseballs twice and confuse the heck out of me.
Getting back to the bat, Nick (TNTtoys) narrowed the bat to a certain labeling period, assisted immensely as the label period for this particular bat was short. I thought WadeInBmore cracked it wide open with the uniform number info but looking at ebay sig samples for the two suspects looked wrong.
Jason's (suave1477) suggested letter location on the sig made it easy to narrow down possible suspects on the spreadsheet. It made me want to attempt a quick catch. When nothing seemed to fit after a quick scan, I went with the possibility of a veteran (non-block letter SLV bat) back in the minors. I got lucky and recognized Newfield’s name as a hot prospect from the Mariner’s organization in the early 90’s (ARod Teammate) when I looked at the 1999 AAA Oakland team roster. His rookie card happens to be in the same set as Jim Thome. Sadly, Newfield never played for the A’s in 1999 and his contract was sold to the Red Sox, where he further declined to AA level in the same year. I remember bunions being his chronic problem when he was a prospect and card dealers regularly dumped his rookie cards. BTW, Newfield bats rightie if you want to further investigate.
OaklandAsFan, glad we were able to help.
WadeINBMore, What’s your source to look up uniform numbers? Could you post a link?Regards,
Joel S.
joelsabi @ gmail.com
Wanted: Alex Rodriguez Game Used Items and other unique artifacts, 1992 thru 1998 only. From High School to Early Mariners.
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02-16-2010, 08:24 PM #27
Re: any ideas on who this is?
Joel...
I use the baseball almanac.
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/index.shtml
Between the almanac and Baseball Reference you can pretty much figure just about anything out...technically speaking.
On the almanac you can look up by the player OR by the Team and pick the specific year that you are looking for. The site is easy to use and pretty straight forward I think. Hope I am introducing you to a new tool
This was a fun thread to participate in AND we figured it out!!! Good fun.
wade
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02-16-2010, 08:39 PM #28
Re: any ideas on who this is?
Regards,
Joel S.
joelsabi @ gmail.com
Wanted: Alex Rodriguez Game Used Items and other unique artifacts, 1992 thru 1998 only. From High School to Early Mariners.
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02-16-2010, 09:43 PM #29
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