Let's see some heavily used / pine tarred bats

[ironmanfan]

Re: Let's see some heavily used / pine tarred bats

I'm going to ask a stupid question.. I see a lot of these bats are described as having "cleat marks". I'm wondering how a bat gets cleat marks on it? The only thing I can think of is the cleats are in the bat bag with the bat?

Cleat marks are generally there from a player knocking the barrel of the bat against his cleats to clean them out (Cal Ripken was known to do this often).

[BULBUS]

Re: Let's see some heavily used / pine tarred bats

I'm going to ask a stupid question.. I see a lot of these bats are described as having "cleat marks". I'm wondering how a bat gets cleat marks on it? The only thing I can think of is the cleats are in the bat bag with the bat?

Players bang the bat on their cleats (kick the bat) to knock the dirt/maud out of their cleats, thus leaving indents in the bat.

[maverick14]

Re: Let's see some heavily used / pine tarred bats

Cleat marks are generally there from a player knocking the barrel of the bat against his cleats to clean them out (Cal Ripken was known to do this often).

Brett Gardner does this alot as well. I have 2 Gardner bats and the handles have been beaten on his cleats relentlessly.

[godwulf]

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I'll have to dig out my two Johnny Estrada bats, that I bought in 2006 - he used them in Arizona that year - and post some photos. The pine tar is so deep on these things, I swear it is still sticky after more than five years. I have a bat Luis Gonzalez used in LA that is almost as bad.

[coletrain98]

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here are a couple of Luis Jimenez bats lots of tape and tar

[coletrain98]

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forgot 1

[3arod13]

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2009 Alex Rodriguez Game Used Bat.

[CampWest]

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This thread seemed the best place to share this video, relating to the application of pine tar to a bat...

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=25645247&topic_id=&c_id=kc&tcid=vpp_copy_25645247&v=3