Pink Bat / Komen Foundation Tax Deduictible Receipts

[Fnazxc0114]

Re: pink mothers day bats

i dont ususally get enything back. but i though that charity contributions are a dollar for dollar reduction on youur overall income so i have to pay in less.

[suave1477]

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I am not an expert but I cant imagine it being dollar for dollar I never heard of a tax write off being dollar for dollar.

The closest you get is writing off education which I believe you get back 33%

[Fnazxc0114]

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i guess this would be a good question to ask my accountant on monday

[kj33706]

Re: pink mothers day bats

yes u can.

[joelsabi]

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i just saw a pink batting helmet signed by arod. do the yankees really use pink helmet on mothers day or is this another manufactured souvenir?

[indyred]

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i just saw a pink batting helmet signed by arod. do the yankees really use pink helmet on mothers day or is this another manufactured souvenir?

No they don't use pink helmets. Just a collectible. Kinda sucks that 3 games got rained out today. I hope MLB allows those teams to use the pink bats tomorrow or when each team plays it's next game.

[kylehess10]

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i just saw a pink batting helmet signed by arod. do the yankees really use pink helmet on mothers day or is this another manufactured souvenir?

Now wouldn't that be something



I think we're gonna need both-teams-played-hard's photoshop skills for this one!

[chakes89]

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Next they will be wearing all pink uniforms and cleats

[jshortt]

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Next they will be wearing all pink uniforms and cleats

Actually, Griffey and Jose Reyes wore black/pink cleats yesterday, haha.

-Josh

[godwulf]

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Diamondbacks catcher Miguel Montero wore a pink chest protector and pink shin guards yesterday.

[godwulf]

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Apparantly it isn't only LS that's making pink Mother's Day bats for the players - for some reason I, for one, thought it was. Just checked out mlb.com and they've got a pink, game-used Eric Byrnes 'Old Hickory' bat up for auction.

[indyred]

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Apparantly it isn't only LS that's making pink Mother's Day bats for the players - for some reason I, for one, thought it was. Just checked out mlb.com and they've got a pink, game-used Eric Byrnes 'Old Hickory' bat up for auction.

Almost all the bat makers have pink one's made up for the players. I've seen Rawlings, BWP, X bats, ect...... Cool to see the Indians and Blue Jays got to use them today. Did anyone see if any Yankees used them tonight or any Braves or Pirates. Detroit didn't play tonight, so I hope they use them tomorrow.

[BMH]

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The first year it was pretty much just Louisville Slugger. The idea was given to us three weeks before Mother's Day and it took MLB another week to decide they wanted to do it. The week before they also gave permission to to the other bat manufacturer's to do the same. It wasn't pretty, many of them were pretty pissed about it and said we had an unfair advantage. The only advantage we had was we already used pink on our mini bats so we had it in house. The other thing is we are the only ones allowed to put the ribbon on the bats or put Mother's Day on the bats. Some have complained about that too but they were told if they want to do it, then shell out the $500,000.00 a year we do to be the official bat of MLB and they will be allowed to use the ribbon too.

On that note I'm getting some pink bats back from players. Seems Ryan Braun thinks these are the hardest bats hes ever used. So he wants us to dip them in black so he can continue to use them in games. I guess after two HR shots during the game I'd want to keep using them too.

[indyred]

Re: pink mothers day bats

The first year it was pretty much just Louisville Slugger. The idea was given to us three weeks before Mother's Day and it took MLB another week to decide they wanted to do it. The week before they also gave permission to to the other bat manufacturer's to do the same. It wasn't pretty, many of them were pretty pissed about it and said we had an unfair advantage. The only advantage we had was we already used pink on our mini bats so we had it in house. The other thing is we are the only ones allowed to put the ribbon on the bats or put Mother's Day on the bats. Some have complained about that too but they were told if they want to do it, then shell out the $500,000.00 a year we do to be the official bat of MLB and they will be allowed to use the ribbon too.

On that note I'm getting some pink bats back from players. Seems Ryan Braun thinks these are the hardest bats hes ever used. So he wants us to dip them in black so he can continue to use them in games. I guess after two HR shots during the game I'd want to keep using them too.

Have any other players did that besides Braun. I bet quite a few collectors were going to try winning that one if it got put up for auction. Has Braun being using LS much in the past. I know last year he seemed to use Sam bats a lot. I know the last time I did the factory tour, you had a sweet signed Arod game used pink bat on display. Also i think you guys had a Griffey. Do player's sometimes give bats back to you guys for displaying?

[allstarsplus]

Re: pink mothers day bats

The first year it was pretty much just Louisville Slugger. The idea was given to us three weeks before Mother's Day and it took MLB another week to decide they wanted to do it. The week before they also gave permission to to the other bat manufacturer's to do the same. It wasn't pretty, many of them were pretty pissed about it and said we had an unfair advantage. The only advantage we had was we already used pink on our mini bats so we had it in house. The other thing is we are the only ones allowed to put the ribbon on the bats or put Mother's Day on the bats. Some have complained about that too but they were told if they want to do it, then shell out the $500,000.00 a year we do to be the official bat of MLB and they will be allowed to use the ribbon too.

On that note I'm getting some pink bats back from players. Seems Ryan Braun thinks these are the hardest bats hes ever used. So he wants us to dip them in black so he can continue to use them in games. I guess after two HR shots during the game I'd want to keep using them too.

Brian - Great update. Braun goes 4 HRs in 2 days!!!

Have you heard anything about if MLB will do the "baby blue" bats for Father's Day for Prostate cancer? The teams have been wearing the blue ribbons and teams have the special bases, etc. on Father's Day.

Again, thanks for all the insight you give to the Forum!