Fred will know better than me, but I don't believe the bat boy ever came with a tag. The bat boy was originally sold as the little leaguer, but Hartland had to pull those because of a copyright issue around the name "little leaguer".
The little leaguer was sold in plastic on card like the one in this photo.
This is the background on the Little Leaguer that I have from a now defunct website hartlands.com
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The 5" Bat Boy was originally called the "Little Leaguer". The original bubble pack shipping envelope has it labeled "Little Leaguer". However, the Little League Baseball Association of America complained about using their "name". As a result, 40,000+ statues were destroyed out of the 50,000 made to that point. He was renamed the "Bat Boy", a name still used today.
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