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Posted By: davidcycleback

I'm not an equipment collector, but one of my all time favorite items I owned (and a conversation piece) was an 1890s bat handmade in prison by a prisoner serving a life sentence. The bat was signed, dating and inscribed (called himself 'a Lifer') and had the original prison sticker stating it was made inside the prison. The bat was a 'ring bat' in that the barrel had three rings carved in. I showed it to the curator of the prison's museum and she said it was the real thing.