Rob, I've heard that before about some of the bat experts not liking the way the pine tar looks. But that is pretty hard to disect. If the bat is 34 1/2 inches and has the right stampings then its his bat. The only other thing I will say is that he ordered over 260 bats from 1998 so I don't think he used them all. Many were given away with hardly any use. I think some were doctored up at some point. I know that the bats I saw in museums that were used to hit certain HRs were really tarred up. He tended to use them until they broke or went to a museum.
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