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Originally Posted by roarfrom34
Back in the 1960's when colleges would order bats from Hillerich & Bradsby, not only the colleges name would be on the barrel but the the facsimile signature of one of their players under contract would appear as well.
I mentioned earlier that we gave my youngest son the middle name of Brooks and when I saw on eBay one of those bats (early 60's labeling period) from the college he recently graduated from with Brooks as the player on it, it was a no brainer to grab it.
We went down to a appearance at a shop in Baltimore to have it signed.
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Bill,
That's a great bat and story about your son. I have one of the college bats somewhere, but unsure what college it's from. I know it was beat up pretty good though.
Great pics by the way as well.