What is your #1 favorite thing in your entire collection?

[skyking26]

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I have a bunch. Could not have 1

1998 Heavily Used McGwire Gamer - batch code dates it to end of September


1995 Game Used McGwire Sweat soaked Autographed Hat


2002 Upper Deck Piece of History GU 500 HR Club autographed Bat card.
The Most Expensive McGwire card on the planet. This is my "52 mantle"


16x20 Autographed Photo of Me at Age 6 in 89' and My Baseball Hero Forever. Got him to sign it in person in 95'

Is the bat cracked? Signed? I had an opportunity to buy a 98 2 weeks ago, but $3K was strong...

[Vintagedeputy]

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[quote=panthrotc;104503]I have a bunch. Could not have 1

1998 Heavily Used McGwire Gamer - batch code dates it to end of September




um panthrotc - I dont want to be the one to tell you this, but you have soap scum....

[panthrotc]

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Is the bat cracked? Signed? I had an opportunity to buy a 98 2 weeks ago, but $3K was strong...

The bat is not cracked nor autographed. It has heavy pine tar. Not the light coat you see on bogus 98 gamers. Hand print impressions on the handle. A bunch of black bat rack marks, a bunch of black NL ball marks. It comes from batch 909. This batch number yielded the 66-70 HR bat. That bat is in the HOF, so this bat was either a BP bat or it was used in between HR's 62 and 66. The batch is from mid to late September. Here are more pics.

[panthrotc]

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[skyking26]

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Sweet bat. I'm looking for a 98 or 2001 Cards gamer. Tuff item to find...

[Rboitano]

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Don post some pics of the barrel, put it up to a light like this and see what the seam marks look like. This is from one of my Mac bats.

[panthrotc]

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Sweet bat. I'm looking for a 98 or 2001 Cards gamer. Tuff item to find...

The kid that has posted on here before listed his photomatched signed gamer on ebay with a sosa. But 3k is way too much if thats the bat you are talking about. i dont even care if its photomatched. McGwire signed Gamers even 98 dont command that much money unless it was 100% used to hit a HR

[Rboitano]

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I think he paid like $1900 plus auction fees for that bat in the spring, and I think he got the 98 Sosa from Ball Park Heroes off ebay for $395. Im not sure if he is saying the Sosa is a photo match or a style match. IF I had to take a guess the 98 Mcgwire is worth about $2500. I picked up a signed 2000 with better use than the 98 for $1100. My 2000 also came with a Cardinals Care COA and it is cracked. That 98 is a very nice bat though! I would like to see better photos of the barrel and see what kind of seam marks it has.

[skyking26]

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The kid that has posted on here before listed his photomatched signed gamer on ebay with a sosa. But 3k is way too much if thats the bat you are talking about. i dont even care if its photomatched. McGwire signed Gamers even 98 dont command that much money unless it was 100% used to hit a HR

I never see anybody selling them, unless they are $3K...

[panthrotc]

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Bobby, wow i never knew about the light trick.

Well if it was a BP there would be more marks. So it looks like this was in deed a gamer!!

[panthrotc]

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Alright. i went ahead and took pictures of my McGwire 2000 signed cracked gamer. Here is the barrell with the seam marks that i had no idea existed until Bob just told me about. Look at the pounding on this bat. I almost shat myself when i saw it in the light.. and below i posted pics of the new Longoria signed gamer i got the other day. The seem marks are nutz on that one also.

McGwire 00 signed gamer





Longoria

[panthrotc]

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here is another pic of the 98 bat barrell.

[skyking26]

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If anyone ever wants to sell a Cardinals Mac SIGNED bat, pounded like I keep seeing in these images, please contact skyking442@hotmail.com, regardless of when that may be. I was given some info from a kind collector today that ballpark heroes has a 98, but the bat looks game ready like so many that were likely given out by McGwire as gifts that year. At $1495, I'll pass on a bat with limited use like that one...

RK

[3arod13]

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Tony, not really sure what year exactly. It was a gift from the parents when I graduated undergrad. Seems to have a little red tint in the tape, so I would guess from his Reds years.

Adam, maybe 1998. Here's another Swingman Griffey bat.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200257864758

[Yankwood]

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Two things: My Rochester Red Wings home flannel from '64 and my Bobby Grich Red Wings hat from '71, the year he was Minor League Player of the Year.