I'm just going to be honest here, no disrespect intended, but I don't think you found the bat in your photos.
I also don't think that the one that he's holding in that batting practice photo is the same one in the game photo right below it. The wear pattern on the knob in batting practice is pretty heavy above and below the "27", while in the game photo, it is heavy below the "27" but not so much above. The bat you got looks more like the game photo than the BP photo, based solely on the knob.
Also, your mark labeled "1c" doesn't look similar to me...the lower white mark looks more pronounced on your bat than the one in the pic.
Finally, the tape job on the handle. That's probably the least convincing thing, but is that normal to add tape like that? Whatever surface that he had for grip in the game photos clearly isn't tape like that.
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