I am thrilled to have won this Louisville Slugger mini-bat bank in LOTG's April auction, solely because one of the mini bats is Pete Runnels, who was my favorite Washington Senators player when I was a kid. I think this item is from late 1962 or early 1963, based on the stats for Runnels & Tommy Davis, assuming all of the bats are the ones that originally came with this mini-bat bank, which they appear to be. It's been 20 years or more since I've seen a mini-bat bank with a Runnels bat, and I have long regretted not buying one way back then. Whenever I've gone to big shows like the National, there are usually a couple of dealers who have assorted mini bats for sale that originally came with mini-bat banks; I've always looked for an individual Runnels bat, which would have more or less satisfied me, but never found one. I'm guessing that a Runnels bat was produced for only one year of these mini-bat banks, which is why I found it to be so hard to find.
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Seeking very scarce/rare cards for my Sam Rice master collection, e.g., E210 York Caramel Type 2 (upgrade), 1931 W502, W504 (upgrade), W572 sepia, W573, W575-1 E. S. Rice version, 1922 Haffner's Bread, 1922 Keating Candy, 1922 Witmor Candy Type 2 (vertical back), 1926 Sports Co. of Am. with ad & blank backs. Also T216 Kotton "NGO" card of Hugh Jennings. Also 1917 Merchants Bakery & Weil Baking cards of WaJo.
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