Game Used -vs- Batting Practice bats?

[sox83cubs84]

Re: Game Used -vs- Batting Practice bats?

Kyle:

The next green ink BP baseball I catch at either Chicago ballpark will be the first.

Dave M.
Chicago area

[mariner_gamers]

Re: Game Used -vs- Batting Practice bats?

I have noticed a few of my pre 1990 bats appear to have been used both in games and then in BP. I don't know if it was a resource issue at the time or players just stuck with a bat they liked the feel of. Back then they weren't thinking "Now that it has slight grain separation I need to put it away so I get another $200" I do know first hand from being along the dugouts at BP in the Kingdome several Mariners would use the same bats in BP and in games.

[coxfan]

Re: Game Used -vs- Batting Practice bats?

I've read and seen at least three places that teams re-use some game-used balls as BP balls after they've gotten too soiled to stay in the game. The four BP balls I have ( three from spring training) include three regular MLB balls, though one was definitely not game-used ( clean, no mud rub-up). The other two I'm not sure of. The remaining BP ball was a MLB ball with lighter blue than regular MLB balls, was stamped " practice" and had " White Sox" hand-lettered on it. I found it in the Charlotte Knights' store where it was wrongly labelled "game-used", but the GM later told me it was probably one they'd gotten from Chicago that was used in White Sox BP.

However, a Pete Orr bat I bought in 2007 from the Braves, after Orr had gone back to the Minors, has a green impression that looks like it was a small stamped 3-digit number, now smeared, ending in "54" or "94". Any idea what that could be?

[tigerdale]

Re: Game Used -vs- Batting Practice bats?

would the green inked balls be the ones they'd be more apt to use in the batting cages inside...not outside during regular batting practice before the game.

[rays54]

batting practice vs Game used bats

Can you tell the difference? What do you look for?

[BULBUS]

Re: batting practice vs Game used bats

Many players will use different model/brand bat for BP and game use.

Sometimes you cant tell. BP bats are sold as gamers all the time.