Hi Brian,

In another thread, Jetefan shared his fine collection of Mattingly Bat. All the LVS bats are the same length. However the center labels are not all equidistant from the knob. Also the distance between the center label and the barrel stamp are not uniform either. This may be a stupid question but what other variable would make this occur?

Also which statement(s) below would be true.

1) All bats from the same player, same model, same length and the same order would have the same location of the center label and barrel stamp.

2) All bats from the same player, same model, same lengthand the same year would have the same location of the center label and barrel stamp

I am not sure how these bats a precisely made and whether certain settings of the machine would allow any uniformity on the location the center labels and barrel stamp.

I know bat collectors say that all bats are unique but i thought they were only talking about the grains on the bat.


Thanks in advance for you reply

Regards,

Joel

PS. Is there any reference book that would have answered these type of question for me?