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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>A nice Net54'er sent me these scans a few days ago to post for him. For the record they were about 2.5mb each and had a weird file name, which are the reasons they woudn't post. The size was about 20x too big, and the file names had a dash in them (which won't work) but here are the scans....Does anyone have an idea about the specifics of this bat? Thanks in advance.....<br><br><br><br><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1230916080.JPG" alt="[linked image]"> <br><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1230916109.JPG" alt="[linked image]"> <br><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1230916128.JPG" alt="[linked image]">

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Posted By: <b>brock</b><p>Could be a very old baseball bat or a stick ball bat?

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Posted By: <b>Dan Bretta</b><p>New York C_____ School? Stickball or playground ball bat. Probably circa 1920-30s.

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Posted By: <b>George H. Counter</b><p>Saw this one on eBay a couple of weeks ago.

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Posted By: <b>joe</b><p>Leon, looks like an Indoor bat. I have a Cobb bat that is shaped like that and it has Indoor printed on the bat.<br><br>By the way, I can't post anymore photos, temporary space is filled.<br><br>Joe<br><br>Ty Cobb, Spikes flying!

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Posted By: <b>John Harrell</b><p>Leon,<br><br>Based on a bat I have, I would say that the letters NYCS stand for New York Central Station. The bat I have has the letters NYCRR and is made from an old railroad tool, which is what I suspect this bat is made from. My bat dates from the late 1870's-mid 1880's and I would guess that this bat dates from approximately the same period. I have some documentation that shows the particular tools that were used for bats.<br><br>John

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Posted By: <b>Dan Bretta</b><p>Interesting John...I've seen stickball/indoor/playground bats that look exactly like this.

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Posted By: <b>dynarl</b><p>I purchased this bat at an antique shop in Indiana and it was displayed with other railroad items. It had a tag that said it was a railroad bat. Thanks John for the info!

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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>You guys are good. Thanks for helping a brother out!! Remember if you ever want to post a scan I can do it for you, though it might take me a bit of time....My temp folder never gets filled up as it's unlimited.....(dictatorship has it's privileges)

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Posted By: <b>dynarl</b><p>Leon went out of his way to put my scan on for me! THANKS LEON