I've told this story before, but it seems appropriate in this thread:
When I was a "hack" in the Padres organization and playing in Class AA Wichita, our bat orders were backed up at the factory. We were running really low on lumber, so the parent club sent six dozen bats from among the extras the major leaguers had. By pure luck, I was among the first to the ballpark the day those bats arrived, and as I was looking through the boxes, I came across two C271 Tony Gwynn models.
The player in me grabbed them because C271 was the model I used, and the collector in me grabbed them because they were Tony Gwynn's bats. I ended up using one and bringing the other home at the end of the season.
Had I (or anyone else) been so inclined, it would have been pretty easy to use any of those six dozen bats and then down the road pass them off as being game used.
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