Game Used Hit Baseball Collection

[Swedescott]

Very good about the green stripe.

Thanks, I was very fortunate to watch this in-person and purchase the ball about 2 hours later. It hit squarely on the top of the wall, about 3 inches long enough to be a home run.

[Swoboda4]

Thanks, I was very fortunate to watch this in-person and purchase the ball about 2 hours later. It hit squarely on the top of the wall, about 3 inches long enough to be a home run.

All the more that it is now in the right hands. Excellent.

[cjmezz]

Added a few more Trouts

[TBM]

This ball was hit by Royals #2 prospect Hunter Dozier in his fourth MLB game on September 17, 2016 for his second career hit and his first career RBI. It was left in play and was hit by Jarrod Dyson for his 342 career hit. Both hits were singles.

Weird story about this ball was that it started out as Hunter Dozier's 3rd career hit and 2nd career RBI but a scoring change in the previous days game, 09/16/2016, changed Doziers second career hit to a "reached on error" erasing both the hit and RBI from that game and this one filled the void.

Hunter finished the 2016 season with four hits and one RBI.

[Oriolesfan29]

I actually just purchased the bat he used to hit that ball last weekend. It was a pretty cool find once I found out he used it for his 2nd career hit and first RBI.

[TBM]

Ahhh man.... I've started searching for that bat. Was going to head to KC to see if I could track it down along with some others I'd like to have. Guess I don't have to search for it anymore.

Could you post some pics of it? Maybe in the Royals thread.

I know it gets said a lot but, if you ever want to sell keep me in mind.

[Oriolesfan29]

I kind of lucked into it actually. We were in KC helping my brother move and I always try and go to GU stores of teams that I am near. The Royals were doing their pick a seat event for STH and just so happened that their authentics manager was there for appointments. I took a look around at the different bats and something told me to get this Hunter Dozier one. I know hes a top prospect and he only had a few games played in 2016. They had two of his, one broke on the 29th and one on the 17th, which is the one I picked up because it was his fourth game. So if you go there they may still have that one. Its the same style bat from the one he used the 17th just as an FYI.

I went back to the hotel that night and started doing some digging through getty and ap images and MLB.tv hoping that it might be from his MLB debut or first hit, but it doesn't appear to be from either. His MLB debut he used an Old Hickory and while the style of the bat from his first hit matches the Marucci I picked up, the markings are quiet there. I am assuming he probably kept both bats or someone else snatched them up. Then I took a look and saw that he clearly used this one for hit #2 and RBI #1 as the markings on the bat are exact. Made me pretty excited.

I will post pictures later tonight of it in the Royals thread. If I decide to sell I will let you know!