The Kansas City Royals game used thread

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Couple of late 80's Brett bats.

WOW!! Those are freaking SWEET!

[CampWest]

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Its been well documented that Alex Gordon gets attached to his uniforms and will use an article until it is unusable. Case in point, here is an article from last year's World Series run that discusses how disgusting Alex's hat got during the 2014 season. http://m.mlb.com/cutfour/2014/10/25/...-spray-instead

This is not the 2014 hat, but it is a rookie year 2007 game worn hat that seems to indicate that Alex has had this "attachment complex" since the beginning of his career. The hat has the #7 written on the inside which Alex only wore in his rookie season and has been signed with the 7 inscription as well as "GAME USED". The hat came directly from Rich Altman at Hollywood Collectibles, who for a long time had an exclusive deal with Alex.

Alex played 151 games in 2007 at age 23. Owing to his athleticism, he moved around quite a bit logging innings in 137 games at third base, 32 games at first and 1 game at shortstop. This hat is filthy and has all the wear, sweat and grime you'd expect of an Alex Gordon hat worn when he was primarily playing third and first.

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Couple of late 80's Brett bats.

Beauties...

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Couple of late 80's Brett bats.

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Okay, one more quick one...

A pair of Big John Mayberry 1976 BiCentennials ... Named Big John for his 6'3 215lb frame, that nowadays would not seem normal. Despite playing 161 games in 1976, it was one of Big John's least successful years at the plate hitting a paltry .232 with just 13 homeruns.

By contrast, in 1975, Big John finished second to Boston's Fred Lynn by a lopsided margin of 326 to 157.
Lynn 331/21/105 401 OBP 963 OPS
John 291/34/106 416 OBP 967 OPS
maybe that vote could have easily gone the other way.

On a personal note, I've gotten to know Big John pretty well the past few years and I've been luckily to meet up with him a number of times to play catch and take some swings in the batting cages. He is one of the funniest guys you will ever meet. Absolutely one of my favorite people I've ever come across.

Oh Wes you know you want to come off one of these John sticks!

[CampWest]

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photo of me and John from January, was too large and didn't stick the first time...

[CampWest]

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Okay, one more quick one...

A pair of Big John Mayberry 1976 BiCentennials ... Named Big John for his 6'3 215lb frame, that nowadays would not seem normal. Despite playing 161 games in 1976, it was one of Big John's least successful years at the plate hitting a paltry .232 with just 13 homeruns.

By contrast, in 1975, Big John finished second to Boston's Fred Lynn by a lopsided margin of 326 to 157.
Lynn 331/21/105 401 OBP 963 OPS
John 291/34/106 416 OBP 967 OPS
maybe that vote could have easily gone the other way.

On a personal note, I've gotten to know Big John pretty well the past few years and I've been luckily to meet up with him a number of times to play catch and take some swings in the batting cages. He is one of the funniest guys you will ever meet. Absolutely one of my favorite people I've ever come across.

[CampWest]

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Last one for today...

Hosmer game used Home Run bat. I purchased this at FanFest a couple years ago and had it HR photomatched while standing in an autograph line that ended up being Hosmer... bat was already signed, but still was fun to show him.

Career HR #49.

Also it has a really cool, full Rawlings ink transfer.

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I also have a bat that goes with that helmet, broken on 9/29/2012 (err, I should update the above)... I'm not aware of anything special occurring with this bat, but it is a nice photo-matched bat from the season Alex hit 51 doubles, leading all of MLB.

oops... photo

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I also have a bat that goes with that helmet, broken on 9/29/2012 (err, I should update the above)... I'm not aware of anything special occurring with this bat, but it is a nice photo-matched bat from the season Alex hit 51 doubles, leading all of MLB.

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2012 Alex Gordon batting helmet used for essentially the entire as near as I can tell. I had photomatched the helmet from May 11th to September 25th. The distinctive marks on the ear flap make the process pretty simple. Alex is known to, superstitiously, use a single hat or helmet for as long as possible... teammates have stolen his hat from him because of the stench it puts off after 150 games of sweat. On the flip side he seems to break a bat every night.

Also, my first ever photo-match to a FatHead, but I've not bit the bullet and purchased it.

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Al Cowens game used glove. AC played six seasons with the Royals from 1974-1979. His best season came in 1977 when he won a Gold Glove award and finished second to Rod Carew in the MVP vote based on his .312/23/112 season plus 14 triples playing in all 162 games. That 1977 team is widely regarded as the best team the Royals have ever fielded. Despite a slow start at 21-23 through May, the team finished 102-60, with a torrid 25-5 September and was the favorite to win it all going into the playoffs.

Though this glove was definitely used during his Seattle year's I have been unable to determine when it first went into use.

The glove is marked pretty thoroughly... Cowens is written on the thumb, AC is written on the wrist, the #16 added above the W thumb logo and then there is some other pen ink markings including "EiE" and a trapezoid or something. I've not figured out any meaning to those last two.

When I purchased the glove, I found the attached note detailing how the gift was obtained from AC's son, Purvis, an interesting piece of provenance...

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With the three Double game on 9/9/2009 became first player since at least 1900 to have 4 3-Double games in a single season. I have the bats from two of those four games.

here is the second of my 3-double game bats from 8/8/2009... broken 8/11/2009. Note the crushed in cupped end and the slivered handle, then check out the series of photos from the game capture. I'm not sure why Billy was trying to fix the cupped end, but I love the face he made and how hard he tried to salvage this bat... I'm not sure if the handle was not cracked yet or if he didn't notice because he fouled off the next pitch as well and you can see he took the pieces to the bat boy and got a new bat.

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Nice helmet Jeff. I remember watching games when Hos was wearing that helmet.

Thanks Wes. I actually thought I had it matched to the game we sat on the PPP against the Marlins at first. But it wasn't it.

Great items as always that you posted. I can't wait to own a Brett anything!

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This is probably my favorite Billy Butler bat. It is photo-matched to games from 9/7/2009 through 9/11/2009.

Photo-matched to 5th inning and 8th inning HRs on 9/7/2009 - 3 for 4 with 2 HRs (Career #35 & 36).

Photo matched to 9/9/2009 - 3 for 5 with 3 doubles (#45 on Season & Career Double #90).

Based on the hits with this bat, Billy won AL Player of the Week on 9/14/2009 and he also won AL Player of the Month.

With the three Double game on 9/9/2009 became first player since at least 1900 to have 4 3-Double games in a single season. I have the bats from two of those four games.