Game Worn Items On Paragon Auctions!

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Re: Game Worn Items On Paragon Auctions!

A fellow Met collector just alerted me to the Lenny Dykstra 86 World Series game used bat on Paragon Auctions this evening knowing I'm a big collector of 86 Met bats. Upon reviewing the auction bat I decided to view each of Dykstra's ABs during each game of the 86 World series. The photos in the link are the Paragon Auction bat and screen shots from each game showing the different Dykstra ABs during the WS. As you can see unlike the auction bat almost all the bats have light to heavy applications of pine tar. The exception is the bat which was used in Game 5 when Lenny struck out to end the game. However you can clearly see that the auction bat has a different grain pattern than the bat used during that AB.

Photographic evidence

http://www.freewebs.com/ward49/photos/ldparagon.jpg

So my conclusion is that the auction bat despite the inscription probably never saw any WS game use. In fact the bat is at best a game issue or game prepped bat as I don't see any evidence of hit marks or ball marks on it.

I've contact Paragon and have sent them the photographic evidence.

This is not the first time that a bat was inscribed as being used or implied as being used in the 86 WS but really was not.

http://www.gameuseduniverse.com/vb_f...kie+wilson+bat

Keith from Paragon emailed me acknowledging the research and Paragon modified the auction to state that the bat could not be photo matched to any 86 World series use.

The bat did not sell.

http://www.paragonauctionsite.com/LotDetail.aspx?lotid=659&searchby=3&searchvalue=lenny&page=0&sortby=0&displayby=2&lotsperpage=25&category=1&seo=1986-Lenny-Dykstra-NY-Mets-Autographed-Game-Used-World-Series-Bat