Labeling is 1925-28 based on the center label. If there aren't any inch marks, that's a pro bat for sure. Very nice!

No inch marks
 

Tim.......no inch marks on the knob, so that's a good sign. Thanks!

Mail day!
 

Picked up this AWESOME Vic Power gamer!

Joe Hall White Sox and Tigers
 

I had a chance to meet Joe Hall today at a local card show. I’ve had this bat for over 20 years and finally had a chance to get it signed. I learned something today about the Louisville Slugger company. Joe is originally from Paducah, KY. He told me that Louisville Slugger , whether you were under contract with them or not, gave all of the players born in the state of Kentucky the script signature on their bats. I never knew that. I really like the look of these “stat” bats and some of the more non descript players really enjoy adding this info. Joe couldn’t have been nicer!
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Awesome seems redundant. Isn't every Vic Power gamer awesome?

That is awesome -- never knew until today that his real last name was Pellot!

Greg

1916-1918 Frank Schulte
 

Wildfire PSA GU 8

Very interesting --- nearly as cool as can be. Is it a new acquisiton?

Wildfire GU 8 bat
 

Picked it up a couple of years ago and decided to get it graded. Definitely was excited about the grade.

It's a terrific bat. Assuming that it is a block letter bat, with that knob, it looks like it was made for Schulte's personal use. I looked up the bat on the PSA/DNA certification page, and I am very glad to see that they are now showing some important details about each bat listed, including the length and weight. In general, the "Use Attributes" rating on their pages seems pretty murky to me, but not with this bat.

Enos Cabell
 

Just added this Enos Cabell gamer today. Picked it up at the local card show.

Mail Day!
 

This bat intrigued me.
Side-written "W B(or maybe E?) Powell 6 ?? 29

I am sort of wondering if this was the great pitcher Pee Wee Powell?
The time frame for the bat is correct, so that is what makes me wonder.

Any opinions would be welcome.

Mount Crushmore of the Giants - Mays, McCovey, Mitchell and Bonds.


Some recent WS studs. Buster, Bum and Panda (x2).


I have about 140 Giants gamers...from stars to scrubs.

See what I mean? Stars to scrubs.

ALDRETE, Mike
AURILIA, Rich
BAKER, Dusty
BECK, Rod (sic. "Rob") G.U.
BELL, David
BELT, Brandon
BENARD, Marvin
BENJAMIN, Mike
BENZINGER, Todd
BLANCO, Gregor
BONDS, Barry
BONDS, Bobby
BRENLY, Bob
BREWINGTON, Jamie
BROWN, Chris
BUMGARNER, Madison
BURKETT, John
BURKS, Ellis
CAIN, Matt
CANIZARO, Jay
CARREON, Mark
CARREON, Mark
CLARK, Jack
CLARK, Will
CLAYTON, Royce
DAVENPORT, Jim
DAVIS, Charles
DAVIS, Charles "Chili"
DRAVECKY, Dave
ESTALELLA, Bobby
ESTES, Shawn (sic. "Sean")
EVANS, Darrell
FELIZ, Pedro
FOPPERT, Jesse
FUENTES, Tito
GALLARAGA, Andres
GARDNER, Mark (sic. "Rob")
GARRELTS, Scott
HALICKI, Ed
HAMILTON, Darryl
HART, Jim Ray
HAYES, Charlie
HILL, Glenallen
HUFF, Aubrey
IVIE, Mike
JACKSON, Mike
JAVIER, Stan
JOHNSON, Brian
JONES, Chris
KENNEDY, Terry
KENT, Jeff
KENT, Jeff
KIRKLAND, Willie
KNEPPER, Bob
KRUKOW, Mike
LaCOSS, Mike
LAMPKIN, Tom
LANIER, Hal
LeMASTER, Johnny
LEONARD, Jeffrey
LEONARD, Jeffrey
LEONARD, Jeffrey
LEONARD, Mark
LEWIS, Darren
LEWIS, Fred
LEWIS, Mark
MALDONADO, Candy
MALDONADO, Candy (1989 NLCS)
MANWARING, Kirt
MANWARING, Kirt
MARTINEZ, Dave
MARTINEZ, Ramon E.
MAYNE, Brent
MAYS, Willie
McCARTY, David
McCOVEY, Willie
MCGEE, Willie
MELVIN, Bob
MINTON, Greg
MIRABELLI, Doug
MITCHELL, Kevin
MONTEFUSCO, John "The Count"
MORSE, Michael
MUELLER, Bill
NATHAN, Joe
NIXON, Donell G.U. (misspelled Donnel)
ORTIZ, Russ
PATTERSON, John
PHILLIPS, J.R.
PIERZYNSKI, A.J.
POSEY, Buster
RABB, John
REUSCHEL, Rick
RILES, Ernest
RIOS, Armando
ROBINSON, Don
RODRIGUEZ, Felix
ROSS, Cody
RUETER, Kirk
SADEK, Mike
SAMARDZIJA, Jeff
SANCHEZ, Freddy
SANDERS, Reggie
SANDOVAL, Pablo
SANDOVAL, Pablo
SANTIAGO, Benito
SCARSONE, Steve
SCHMIDT, Jason
SCUTARO, Marco
SNOW, J.T.
SPEIER, Chris
SWIFT, Bill .
THOMASSON, Gary
THOMPSON, Robby
THOMPSON, Robby
TORRES, Andres
URIBE, Jose
URIBE, Jose (1989 NLCS)
VANLANDINGHAM, Wm.
VENABLE, Max
WILLIAMS, Matt
WILSON, Trevor

Let me know if you want to see any particular one. (providing I can find it :p )

A member asked for some more pics of the Mays bat. I had these pics previously saved.It seems Louisville Sluggers bring better money but I've always liked his Adirondacks...especially the white letter ones.

That's a great looking Mays bat Rob -- couldn't agree more on the white letter Adirondacks!

Greg

That is a great collection.

That is an amazing collection. I hope you get a Chuck Hiller for Christmas!

Brian Johnson Gamer
 

Had the pleasure to meet Brian today at a LCS and had him sign a bat for me. Another former Tiger for the collection. Brian was a 2 sport star at Stanford. In addition to playing baseball ( 2 x CWS Champ) he started a handful of games for the Cardinal football team.

Vladimir Guerrero Sr. game used Trinity with some nice pine tar and seam impressions

Mays gamer
 

Rob the vintage Mays signature on that bat brings it over the top... Great bat
Jonathan

We Giants fans love Brian Johnson! Mention "the Brian Johnson game" to any long time Giants fan and they will know you're talking about 9/18/97....10 games to go in the season, playing the hated Dodgers and trailing them in the standings by a game...Giants take a 5-1 lead but the Dodgers tie it and it goes into extras...Rod Beck gives up three straight singles in the 10th but strikes out Todd Zeile and gets Eddie Murray to ground into a DP with the bases loaded....Brian Johnson leads off the bottom of the 12th and wins the game with a HR through a howling Candlestick wind! Brian kept the Giants in first place with another 9th inning HR @ Colorado, a few days later. Giants won the 1997 NL West after a terrible 1996 season.

I will only collect Giants player bats if they are from their time with the Giants. These Glomars are interesting....Glomar was one of the first small bat companies to be approved by MLB when nearly everyone was using either a LS or Rawlings. Glomar's founder named the company for his two kids...Gloria and Mario. BTW, Brian Johnson has a great signature, unlike the Mike Trouts of today. I had a silver paint pen ready for the Media Guide, but it failed and we had to go with the sharpie. Brian was very patient while I tried, unsuccessfully, to get the paint pen going.

Recently named Mets skipper Buck Showalter (used while a member of the AA West Haven Yankees in the late 1970's):

https://i.imgur.com/wO0itV6.jpg

Love this thread and very educational

At some point I might start looking to get one but a lot depends where I can display it.
I want to be able to enjoy it once I get it

Great bats fellas


Galarraga from his time with the Braves


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...2a9e6003_z.jpg1998 R205 Galarraga by Greg Martin, on Flickr


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I love the character on these featured bats. The cleat marks and tar on Gallaraga so awesome!

You ought to like this one, then.

Giants closer Rod Beck. Rod got 18 AB's in his 7 years with the Giants and rapped out 4 hits (with one RBI) for a .235 average. In his 7 years with other teams, he only got 2 more AB's :(. Altho he didn't hit often or for average, Rod loved to take BP! :D I think he may have learned his taping technique from Bonds.

Awesome Beck bat.

Justin Verlander 2007 game used bat
 

Here is a great Justin Verlander game used pitcher bat from circa 2007.
Manufacturing date was 11 days before his first no-hitter against the Milwaukee Brewers.

The signature was in person in 2007 or 2008 at a signing in DET with my kids.

Saltalamacchia and Mientkiewicz bats typically have character. I love these!

That’s a great collection.

Wow, that’s a lot of tar! Great bats

Just picked up a gamer of Giants' fan favorite Hunter Pence. A guy who deals in a lot of Giants gamers told me Pence and Brandon Crawford bats are very hard to find. My experience has borne that out. Other players from the Giants' 2010, 2012 and 2014 Championships are not nearly so scarce (e.g. Posey, Sandoval, Scutaro, Belt, Huff, etc). This bat has a production date of 1-18-2012...Hunter didn't get to the Giants until the trade deadline...but his autograph has an "8" with it (his Giants number) and there's an 8 in the cupped end, so I'm gonna say he didn't break this bat out until he got to SF. :p

Congrats on the Pence bat, very nice:

3 Kevin McReynolds bats:

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...bc96967f_b.jpg1983-85 K55 McReynolds by Greg Martin, on Flickr
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...f55f38f6_b.jpg1990 S338 McReynolds by Greg Martin, on Flickr
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...fb0e8626_b.jpg1985-86 194x McReynolds by Greg Martin, on Flickr

I went to a ton of Las Vegas Stars (PCL) games when they arrived in 1983. McReynolds was killing it. John Kruk and the Alomar brothers, too.

Mail day!
 

Awesome pick ups for me this month.

A Mike Piazza bat, and I got my Bob Fothergill bat back from PSA. Had Fothergill for a while, but finally got around to having it checked out.

I wonder what the little scoring is? Maybe he was keeping track of his hits?

nice
 

Sean

Nice couple of bats! Especially drawn to the Fothergill. You don't see one of those everyday. Is it from his days with the Tigers?

Mark

Fothergill
 

Hi Mark,

I believe that it is from his days with the Tigers. It has the baseline "1" in the "125", so I think I can narrow it down pretty good.

Sean

My 1971 Pirates Game Used bat collection is coming along slowly but surely. 7 down and twelve to go.

Mac
 

After 4 and one half months--this one finally arrived back home. Happy to have it.

You may have posted them prior, but I’d like to see pictures of the actual bat.

Mac
 

Don't want to post a ton of pics here but will be happy to send you more if you like...just email me. This is the knob end before and after. Thanks.
sicollector1954@gmail.com

Sal Butera
 

Picked this up recently to add to the Tiger (played 5 games in 1983) collection. He won a WS in 87 with the Twins. Not sure what happened to the registration?
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A Barry Bonds gamer (same model as mine but without Bonds’ trademark criss-cross tape, post #333) sold last night at REA FOR $5250. I’m glad I got mine in the mid 90’s for 300 bucks. :p

I’m almost certain I’ll never own a bonafide McGwire gamer but I sorta like this broken fungo and the story that goes with it better, anyway.

The story goes that in 1997 at the Kingdome, McGwire was messing around with this fungo during batting practice, trying to see how far he could hit a ball with it. The bat broke. The guy I obtained it from was a child at the time and, with a friend, asked for and received the pieces of the bat. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...33bf3f5cb2.jpg
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Eric Chavez, Bruce Bochte, Bert Campaneris cracked A’s era batshttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...0ce29d449d.jpg


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Let’s start a game used bat thread.
 

I’m also now the center of the collecting world for game used bats by former A’s 1B prospect Rob Nelson. Lol

No word on if the left bat was used by Donnie Hill too. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...946ab4e338.jpg
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I could see him doing that. Very cool bat

This caught my eye. Looks like someone bought it. It's more than I've ever paid for a bat but, given the current climate, it didn't seem like an outrageous price.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/14454541174...rdt=true&rt=nc

Lance Parrish Gamer
 

I had the opportunity to have Lance sign this bat last weekend. Really like how it turned out.Attachment 520251

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Now up to 13

Nice:)

Hopefully you can find the other 6 at good prices.

Great collection, Mike! :cool:

Slowly making progress on my 1971 Pirates Game Used bat collection.

Rennie Stennett K44 35", 34 ounces.
Gene Alley G105 35.5” 32.7 oz

very nice bats!

Thanks Mark!

One of my favorite GU bats....and GU jerseys as well......

:-)

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And a couple of other '69 Mets favorites.....

https://i.imgur.com/tU8xpxB.jpg

Beautiful bats Jim. That Jersey is incredible as well.

Thanks Mark! Love yours as well - quite a collection there!!

Welcome Jim! Hope you're doing well my friend!

RJ - nice to hear from you! Doing well and hope you are! Can’t believe I am just joining this site…..great stuff!

Hey Jim. Welcome to Net54. Haven't talked to you in a few years, hope all is well.

Doing well Jim and hope you are!! Thanks!

Here are some bats I picked up at the National. The Soriano has a ton of great use. I already owned the Sheffield but got him to sign on Thursday.
https://i.imgur.com/UOBeYiDh.jpg

On Friday I went on to pick up these 3 bats. The Kemp shows great use and the Hamilton bat has light to moderate use. The Granderson 2006 World Series bat is issued. It actually used to be mine and I traded it away to the same dealer at the last Atlantic City show. I always regretted trading it and was happy to be able to buy it back.
https://i.imgur.com/R0SoTO7h.jpg

The Hamilton bat is one of the largest bats I've ever owned. It's 35 inches and 33 ounces, but the knob is so large.
https://i.imgur.com/XMYOfgQh.jpg

I’m pretty happy to add this Willie Stargell game used bat to my collection. It takes me one step closer to my goal of obtaining a bat from each position player on the 1971 Bucs roster who batted and played at least one inning in the field. I still need Carl Taylor and Bill Mazeroski.

Congrats!! You are almost done!

Cngratulations indeed! A great achievement to get so far in collecing the legendary teams' full set of bats.

Thanks Mark and Jim! I have had a lot of help from some great sources. I found a Maz but won’t be able to add it until November. Carl Taylor is actually Steve Blass’ brother in law. I’m going to ask him to call Mr Taylor to see if he happens to have any of his old bats laying around the house. I figure it’s worth a shot.

I’ll be on the lookout for you…..very exciting! At one time I had the entire ‘61 Yankees ( position players ) and Whitey Ford as well - also had the ‘96 and ‘98 Yankee teams and the ‘77 and ‘78 Yankee teams including George Zeber….I was obsessed….sold all of that to buy my farm….miss them dearly….

But I am working on the ‘69 Mets currently…..just missing Ed Charles and Art Shamsky….

Collecting Game Used Bat team sets - It’s a sickness…..but love it…

Thanks! Sounds like an epic collection you had but you can’t complain about using it to fund a purchase like that!

Jimmy C, Mike got it right. Those Yankee team bats, in themselves, would make up a fantastic collection. One thing that makes this hobby interestng and challenging is that there seem to be as many great collectors as their are desirable bats. It's too bad that you let them go, but at least you followed the principle that we don't give up our favorite bats until we buy the farm.

Always have loved team bat collectors!!! I completed the 1955 KC A's, 1967 KC A's, 1969 Royals, 1976 Royals, 1980 Royals, and 1985 Royals. Hurt me a little when I let them go but still have enough bats in my house to drive my girlfriend crazy :)

Ryan sounds like quite a collection. I’m curious do recall what surname was on the Vic Power bats?

LOL - I do miss them, but it was worth it for sure.....And what's funny is that I left baseball card collecting hard around 1986 and got into game used bats then.....Had over 300 in the collection at one time including the team sets mentioned....Now, I love game used jerseys more even though I still have quite a few pieces of lumber laying around....What's even more interesting is that I have jumped back into cards again - focusing on sets and singles from when I was 8-12......

Got to collect something I guess! Probably always will...

Now that is an impressive list of team bat sets!! Wow!

Jim if I remember correctly you purchased my extra 1955 Enos Slaughter gamer years ago.

Mike, I had 2 Vic Powers. One with Powers and one with Pellot.

From memory, the Slaughter was a nice piece of lumber…..

I’m looking for some ideas. I completed my 1971 Pirates bat run. There are 18 total bats in my collection. I’m considering building a display case. Before I do I was curious as to how others display their bat collections.

I sold my bat collection to focus on flannels, but I kept one of my bat racks up. The plan is to limit my bats to no more than 10, and in time, have them be the 10 most meaningful, yet inexpensive, bats I can acquire.

I made this rack myself. It's simple, the tubes protect the bats, they are easy to pull out and put back (velcro stickers hold them in place,) and since 1967 was the first year I collected cards, I display them with the bats. You could build this for less than $25.00.

By the way, Ryan helped me when I was collecting bats, he then helped me sell many of them for good prices, and earlier this year he (Crown) sold me one of my favorite flannels - a road NOB Etchebarren. Ryan, thanks yet again!
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Thanks Mark I appreciate your response. I like that idea. However, I’m likely going to pay someone to construct something for me large enough to house all 18. I am terribly inept when it comes to using tools and I’d like to keep all of my fingers.