July pick-ups

[gameused]

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Picked up a few 2006 Red Sox bats pounded with game use:

Mark Loretta, Wily Mo Pena and Trot Nixon (I wish the Red Sox would have kept Trot!)

[Eric]

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Picked up a few baseball items over the weekend.

Two lineup cards from a 1989 spring training game- Mets vs Expos signed by the managers Davey Johnson and Buck Rogers. If anyone is interested in the lineup cards- shoot me an offer at ecky3@aol.com



1951 Yankees Program

[TNTtoys]

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Brian Giles uncracked gamer with good ball marks and pine tar. Giles was on my list of everyday guys that I just like for no particular reasons. At age 36, he may not have too many years left but he's a good everyday ballplayer.

Funny you should say this. I feel the same about Giles. Don't ask me why, but I always liked him as well, following him from Cleveland to Pittsburgh, where he had some dynomite years. I too picked up a Giles Indians bat recently - probably about 2-3 months ago. It was a fairly cheap one - very lightly used, a couple of seam marks, rack marks, etc., but fairly clean otherwise. The thing I liked most about this bat is that the knob bears his name and #58, his original number with the tribe from his rookie season.

[Vintagedeputy]

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TNT - there's a few guys like Giles that for whatever reason, I just like the guy as an every day good ballplayer. Steve Finley is another, Mark Grace too.....guys like that.

[Vintagedeputy]

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Right after I replied, I heard a familiar thump at my door which usually means a package delivery and lo and behold, there was the bat.

Its even nicer in person!

[TNTtoys]

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Right after I replied, I heard a familiar thump at my door which usually means a package delivery and lo and behold, there was the bat.

Its even nicer in person!

Thought I'd post a few shots of mine for you...

[Vintagedeputy]

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Thats a nice one. I see a blue dot, any other ball marks?

[dcrules01]

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That Nixon is sweet one of my favorite players.Nice pickups guys I should have a few hopefully in the next week or 2.

[TNTtoys]

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Thats a nice one. I see a blue dot, any other ball marks?

Thanks -- I like it more for the fact that it is a rookie year bat than anything else. I have certainly have seen Giles bats with more use.
This one does not have many ball marks, I can count a handful. There are visible seam marks -- you can make out the outline of the entire seam in a number of places, but none of them will photograph against the black. Plenty of rack marks - a reddish color, but again, difficult to see by photograph. He signed the bat with "58 and Giles" on both ends but the barrel portion is half worn off. Again, not a heavily used bat, and looks even cleaner by photo -- probably why it was such a bargain.

[dcrules01]

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David Wright game used bat used between 5-12-07 and broken in the 9th inning on 5-15-07.Hit a hr on 5-14 in his 2nd ab of the game...

[stlbats]

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Here are some pics of my newest addition.


Jason

[Vintagedeputy]

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Went to Nationals game tonight and stopped by the team store. They had a few destroyed bats including:

Zimmerman, snapped in half
Nick Johnson, sliced in half
2 badly cracked Jason Bergman bats
Ryan Church broken in half but the pieces fit together nicely
Jesus Flores, moderately cracked
Some unknown former Braves pitcher. Couldnt read the sig. Employees said that he was called up by the Nats. It had nice use and a unique "Posadaesq" tape job. Sure wish I knew who the sig belonged to.

After some searching, I came away with this. Sorry for the crazy large pics, I was trying a new setting on the digital. It has his 23 on the knob and barrel, a blue ball mark on the knob, lots of rack marks and a couple of ball marks and some grain seperation on the back. The MLB hologram is damaged though and I can only read the last 3 numbers. DO they put the hologram on before its used? There is a mark that goes the length of the barrel and across the hologram.

A slightly cracked Brian Schneider LS model E53:

[Vintagedeputy]

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Forgot to add - the brown color across "Louis" is pine tar. Its also all down the handle. My first Nats gamer and a really nice one.

[Eric]

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Picked up a nice Tokyo Giants road jersey of Bill Gullickson

[indyred]

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Some great pick ups all around.
The David Eckstein Cardinals bat is really nice. Isn't he one of those guys that you rarely see any game used stuff of his on the market, kinda like Biggio.