August 2017 Pickups

[grandeleague]

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Freeman military appreciation jersey and hat

[grandeleague]

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Freeman Fort Bragg game

[grandeleague]

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Freeman

[grandeleague]

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Freeman throwback

[grandeleague]

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freeman Saint Patricks day.

[JKD1991]

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2015 Photo Matched Yadier Molina Bat.

Photo matched to 5 RBI's vs the Giants. The Aug 29th match was a double not a single.

[JKD1991]

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This one is matched to June 15th ( 2 singles ), 16th (double) and 17th (single). This bat was most likey used for Molina's 97th HR ( 1st of 2015) and 1st HR since June 27th 2014 (373 plate appearances). Getty has 100% AB matches but their discription doesn't mention what innings the AB's are from. Made matches to his singles from 6th and 8th innings on MLB.tv. 1st photo is the HR ( from the 4th inning) swing which looks like a match.

[gorilla777]

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2001 Roberto Alomar:

A bat from his time with the Tribe, has nice use on the barrel that's hard to capture very well in photos. Also has scoring along the handle.

Ben

[gorilla777]

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1975 Mike Schmidt:

[Chaskew9]

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freeman Saint Patricks day.

So your the person I'm always fighting for Freeman stuff with lol

[grandeleague]

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Yes and no. two of these I bought out of a braves connection. I personally think all of this stuff is tragically overpriced. freeman is a 600-800 jersey not 1000+ Like the braves charge or the dreamland prices of 1500+ on ebay.

[sox83cubs84]

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1975 Mike Schmidt:

Great Schmidt bat, Ben.

Back in the old days, I bought a similar bat (but cracked) for $20 from a Cubs visitors batboy. The oddity on mine was, the number on the knob was that of a HOF teammate: Steve Carlton (32).

Dave Miedema

[grandeleague]

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Great Schmidt bat, Ben.

Back in the old days, I bought a similar bat (but cracked) for $20 from a Cubs visitors batboy. The oddity on mine was, the number on the knob was that of a HOF teammate: Steve Carlton (32).

Dave Miedema

Dave-
Didnt you find a bat stuck in the ivy years ago? Was it a Mark Grace?

[gorilla777]

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Not new pickups, but got my 90s Thome bats newly signed and inscribed...

Ben

[sox83cubs84]

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Dave-
Didnt you find a bat stuck in the ivy years ago? Was it a Mark Grace?

That wasn't me. That was a bleacher Ballhawk named Scott (a good guy, but a bit dense...you'll see why in the story below) who saw a bat laying several feet beneath the bleachers and spent close to 2 innings of the game using some handmade hooking contraption to successfully dig it out. It turned out to be a Jeff Kunkel.

Actually, I did have one bat come to me courtesy of a hot redhead named Brandi who worked as security down the LF line. During BP, a Cubs coach came out to pose as a batter while a Cubs pitcher threw in the bullpen which, back then, was down the LF foul line, but on the field itself. When the session was over, the Cubs coach dropped the bat on the ground, attended to the pitcher...and left the bat behind, never coming back to retrieve it. I asked Brandi what was gonna happen to the bat if nobody came back for it, and she offered to hide the bat under the bullpen bench. If someone from the Cubs came back for it, she would give it to them, but if no one else came back to retrieve it by the end of the game, she would give it to me after the game. The latter happened, and I was the proud new owner of an uncracked Candy Maldonado bat! The only potential fly in the ointment, although nothing came of it, was that, when Brandi left the ballpark to go home, Scott (from the first story), who had seen her hand it to me from the bleachers, came up to her and asked her why she gave me a bat and asked her (with people nearby) if she'd get him one, too. Fortunately, no one in the area heard the conversation, and he never got one from her.

Dave M.