Unexpected Game Used Surprises You've Uncovered

[sox83cubs84]

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A GU baseball, from a 2010 Braves win, won on eBay a few months ago and MLB Authenticated. A little research confirmed that the ball was used in Craig Kimbrel's 1st MLB save game. Kimbrel, of course, won NL ROY honors in 2011 and notched 46 saves that season.

Dave Miedema

[schubert1970]

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http://www.gameuseduniverse.com/vb_forum/showthread.php?t=35687&page=19&highlight=pete+rose+cork

http://deadspin.com/5555714/this-is-pete-roses-corked-bat

To this day I still can't belive it.

[ironmanfan]

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A few years ago I purchased some Orioles line up cards from a dealer and I later discovered that one was from Cal Ripken Jr.'s 1000th Consecutive Game in 1988 @ Fenway Park (this was actually on display at the Babe Ruth Museum for a few years while they had a Ripken career time line exhibit):

[coxfan]

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These are all great stories. Half the fun of buying a rare piece of history, whether a g-u sports item, or a rare book, is doing research and finding out more about it. Often there's more to the story than the seller even knew.

[jsr418]

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I have two that turned out to be pleasant surprises. One was a Mark Teixeira bat that was MLB authenticated as being broken in the 2009 ALDS series against the Twins. It was broken in the at-bat the game after he hit the walk off home run in the bottom of the 11th inning. After quite a bit of photomatching and a ton of help here, it turns out that it is the same bat that he used to hit the homerun. The at bat is replayed on a YES network commercial 20 times a day lol.

The next is an absolutely hammered Jorge Posada uncracked LVS with a ton of use and ridiculous tar from last season. Turns out to be the last bat he EVER used before retiring. Matched to every at bat including the triple he hit against the Tigers in the playoff's, his last regular season RBI, last Homerun, and last hit (he used a different bat for his last regular season at bat). Definitely one of the favorites in my collection.

[yankees506]

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I have three i can think of off the top of my head. My first two favorites both involved Johnny Damon of all people

First was an Eric Hinske model bat that had an 18 on the knob and after a bit of reasearch it was used by Damon to hit hr #20 in 2009. Not a bad bat for $50 from steiner

Next was a 2009 damon bwp bat that had an october production date and was photomatched to an rbi single in game 1 of the ALCS vs the Angels. I attended that game and it was the first and only time ive gotten an item from a game i attended. Also that night was insanely cold!

The other was a Brett Gardner Lvs with a production date of Jan and used on the 4th of JULY for an inside the park homerun. Sometimes production date is not always around when a bat was used.