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11-09-2010, 07:41 AM #1
Unique Ripken Bat
A few years ago during a discussion of bats with Cal, he told about the time that he received a shipment of bats from LVS (late 1990's) that erroneously had the contract signature of his father on the barrell. He told me that he never used any in a game, but if he ran across them he would give me one. Got this yesterday!
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11-09-2010, 08:26 AM #2
Re: Unique Ripken Bat
As an example, here are two Cal Ripken Sr. bats, one being a contract signature model (1960-63) that I received from Dave Miedema back in 1989 (thanks Dave!) and the other is a very rare non contract model from his playing days in the late 1950's (hornsby knob):
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11-09-2010, 08:41 AM #3
Re: Unique Ripken Bat
very cool unique bat...thanks for sharing that. I enjoy stories like this.
always looking for Detroit Tiger world series player bats......game used 2006 & 2012 world series items....Quintin Berry bats....also interested in Ivan Rodriguez bats...
Thank you, Dale
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11-09-2010, 08:22 PM #4
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Re: Unique Ripken Bat
Bill:
I still remember that Ripken Sr. signature model bat. It was unearthed at a late autumn Chicago show from a seller at the show who was floored that someone would want it, since it was Senior, not Junior. Glad to assist.
Dave Miedema
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11-09-2010, 09:19 PM #5
Re: Unique Ripken Bat
I also think it was great that Cal kept these bats and not sent them back. It must have had some sentimental value to have his Dad's name on his bats.
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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.