July Pick-ups

[packfan84]

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Rusty Greer was one of my favorite ball players as a kid and I was fortunate to score a nice set of items. Hopefully will be able to do a locker type display. Looking for a game used Greer hat if anyone has one.

1996 Fielding Glove (My first game used mitt!):




1994 Batting Helmet with tons of scuffs and usage.



1996-97 Game used cleats. Really beat up. Even has some gun stuck to the side and a hole worn into the toes.

2004 Locker room nameplate

1998 Game Used Batting glove

[MLB~NUT]

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Picked up a Yadier Molina Bat. Photo matched on 6/6/12 against the Astros and broke on 6/7/12 against the Astros.

Very nice is that uncracked?

[AthleticsFan]

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I picked up this filthy game used 2012 Japan Series Kurt Suzuki jersey today.

[slab0meat]

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Some very nice pickups.

[MolinaFan]

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Very nice is that uncracked?

Yes it is cracked.

[ironmanfan]

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2011 Game Used Under Armour cleats from top Orioles prospect Manny Machado

[HawaiiSportsNut]

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I picked up this filthy game used 2012 Japan Series Kurt Suzuki jersey today.

Nice Suzuki jersey. That is one of my holy grails. Congratz on a nice find.

[R_Aaronson]

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Just picked this up today:

Miguel Cabrera Stars and Stripes GU Hat
Used on July 4 (2012)
MLB Authenticated

Will be signed later this month

[sportscrazy13]

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2012 Votto GU home jersey. Used through whole season up to June 26th game.

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[baseballfan0721]

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Rusty Greer was one of my favorite ball players as a kid and I was fortunate to score a nice set of items. Hopefully will be able to do a locker type display. Looking for a game used Greer hat if anyone has one.

1996 Fielding Glove (My first game used mitt!):
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1994 Batting Helmet with tons of scuffs and usage.
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1996-97 Game used cleats. Really beat up. Even has some gun stuck to the side and a hole worn into the toes.
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2004 Locker room nameplate
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1998 Game Used Batting glove
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Very Nice Items !

[Manram]

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Big thanks to Chris Boyd for these game used bats:

Andrelton Simmons
Ariel Ovando
Oscar Hernandez
Jonathan Villar
Danry Vasquez

[ncbadges]

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Josh Hamilton 2012 game used bat from June 9, 2012.
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[MLB~NUT]

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bitchin bat ncbadges I love that lvs maple model...

[godwulf]

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I've picked up some neat items this month, but one of my favorites is "just" an autograph, on an item I bought a little over a year ago.

Here's my original "Pickups" post, from June of 2011.

I'm always looking for Caribbean league items at a reasonable price, so I was surprised and happy to pick up this Dominican Aguilas Cebaenas team bat for a song on eBay, and it just came in the mail yesterday.







The auction photo wasn't the greatest, and the description meager, so I didn't really know what I had till I had it, and I have to say I'm really pleased. There's a small, inside-out handle crack, an interesting and intricate tape job, and tons of pine tar, as you can see. Best of all, the knob has a number, and there are initials ('EH') in the cup, written in silver paint pen.



I started out without a lot of hope of being able to i.d. who actually used this bat, but the number and the initials were promising. I went to the team's official website, and started scrolling through the photos. Almost immediately, I came to a photo of a player wearing '69'.


The captioning was hard to figure out. There were numerous "headlines" and player names above and below each photo, so it was difficult to know who this player was...so I went looking for a roster.




Elian Herrera wore '69' for the Aguilas Cebaenas during the 2010 Winter League season. He's also a minor leaguer for LA's Chattanooga team - which would explain how the bat got to Chattanooga, the location of the Seller from whom I obtained it.

So now I've doubled my Caribbean bat collection.

Last week, L.A. was in town to play the Diamondbacks, and they're announcing the lineup and I hear that "Elian Herrera" is starting in left field. I guess he was called up in May.

Saturday night, I'm waiting behind the visitor's dugout, with my bat and a black Sharpie, and Elian is the first player to come up the stairs. I called his name, and he looked around with a slightly puzzled look on his face, like he was surprised anyone was calling him. (Not up in the Bigs long enough to get blase about it, I guess.)

I passed the bat to him, and he began examining it closely. He stared at the team name for a long time, then quietly asked, "Where'd you get this bat?" "Chattanooga", I told him. "Before that, the Dominican, right?" "Yes," he said. I tossed him the pen, and he put his signature on it. "Thank you very much," I told him. "Thank you," the man said, and he sounded like he really meant it.

[OaklandAsFan]

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Sunday at the Dbacks game I picked up this Wade Miley bat from the auction.



it was broken during the July 5th game and I have photomatched it to 9 games including games 5,6,7 of his 8 game hitting streak and this was the bat he used to hit his first career double.