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[dcrules01]

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Met Ryan Church this past weekend .Had him autograph this photo .Here is him using his Mothers day bat.

[indyred]

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the red sox have variteks game used catchers gear with pink outlines up for sale on mlb.com

That's cool. Didn't see that before. I think a few catcher's did something like that this year. Here is pictue I saved of Big Papi using his pink X bat this year at Metrodome. It looks like it says Model 24. So my guess the bat may be a Manny Ramirez bat.

[brianborsch]

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An Alex Rodriguez game issued pink bat is available on ebay. Sellers says it is from a clubhouse source.

BB

[Fnazxc0114]

Re: pink mothers day bats

the red sox have variteks game used catchers gear with pink outlines up for sale on mlb.com

[indyred]

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Have any pink bats been up for sale/auction yet?

I haven't seen any from 2008 yet. Last year it wasn't until early June when they started hitting. Then their was two big waves of them and few scattered one's showing up the rest of the year. I can't wait. It always interesting to see what bats even make it to auction. Some entire teams you never see any get put up. Then you see some insane prices like Bill Hall from year 1 with 25k for his. Then last year the Biggio bat. That one was starnge. Got sold for 7k, then a few months later it got relisted and sold for 2k. Something fishy must have happened with first auction. Torii Hunter had a monster game last year with his pink Rawlings bat and that sold for well over 2k. It's too bad the Braun bat isn't going to get put up this year. It's always interesting to see what brands some guys got bats made in pink from. I know David Ortiz used a pink X Bat this year. Never seen him use that brand before. Morneau used LS, he almost always has ben using BWP bats.

[TFig27]

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Have any pink bats been up for sale/auction yet?

[allstarsplus]

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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.

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!

[indyred]

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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.

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?

[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]

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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.

[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.

[godwulf]

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

[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

[chakes89]

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Next they will be wearing all pink uniforms and cleats

[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!