Over the years we have been fortunate enough to pick up several professional model, Louisville Slugger bats with significant endorsers that have been stamped with the YMCA logo. These bats are pro grade and were shipped right from the Louisville Slugger factory to the YMCA to the Lorraine sector of France in 1918. These YMCA stamped bats can be found with some of the most sought after endorsements to include Tris Speaker, Eddie Collins, Joe Jackson, and Nap Lajoie among others.
Here are a couple of our YMCA bats….the first is a 36” pro model 125 Tris Speaker, the second a 36” Jake Daubert, and the third is a pro model 125 with no endorsement at all. Although I don’t yet have images of it, we just acquired a Spalding Autograph model endorsed by Bennie Kauff that is also marked with the YMCA stamp…the first Spalding bat that we’ve ever seen marked in this way and most definitely WWI era given the model of bat and player endorsement.
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