The endorsement of professional baseball bats started with Honus Wagner in 1905. Jennings career was all but over in 1903 when he came to bat 19 times for Philadelphia.. He played in Baltimore, New York and Philadelphia during his professional career.
He was born and raised in Scranton PA
In 1907 he was named manager of the Tigers
His at bats in Detroit as a player
1907 4
1909 4
1912 1
PTC was a regional company.
During the time period there were two Professional Leagues in Michigan. The Southern Michigan and West Michigan Leagues. Where did they buy their professional bat? I'll bet PTC
go online and look at the pictures of all the bats which are said to be a Keller, Chance, Blount, Lajoie and the Jennings. All of the center brands are crisp and clean in their lettering. Now look at the knobs. All are irregular.
I don't believe that the PTC put those names on the bat pictured
I am more inclined to guess that someone other than PTC put the names on the bats
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