PSA grading at times to me seems a bit arbitrary. a GU 6 on this bat could mean something completely different for a different bat GU 6 - presumably this bat due to lack of provenance and another bat potentially due to lack of use. i wish the letters would provide more specificity in that regard. mears does a good job of documenting where points on the grade were lost.

and as it pertains to jeter bats, i believe that steiner would get them directly from him when he had his deal with them. not so sure about other players at least at the time jeter was playing, believe it has changed a bit since then.