Help with Game Used Bat...

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by MooseDog

It's not that usual for a players to share bats. If indeed this was a Lemke bat, it's possible that Blauser, for whatever reason was using the Lemke model bat. Blauser may have been in a slump and wanted to try another model, who knows?

If you can find a Blauser GU bat and a picture of the handle you can match the #4's.

I'm guessing that MooseDog is correct. Lemke and Blauser were close friends and teammates on the Bravos.

[jgmp123]

Guys,

I found a game used Blauser bat to verify how the #4 was written on the bat...pretty close...check out the 4 on the left (Blauser bat) compared to 4 on the Mark bat..

[scmavl]

Pretty sure it's a Lemke model as well, as the other last names are too long to keep the correct centering with the team name below.

[jgmp123]

So is the consensus that the bat is a Lemke model that could have been used by Lemke or Blauser?

[mcgwirecom]

I'd go with that. I have an early Manny Ramirez game bat that I bought. the name engraved in the barrel was Tim Tony. The guy said Manny handed him the bat from the dugout in the 90's. I was like, who is Tim Tony? The end of the knob was blacked out with marker and a silver "24" written over it for Manny. Then I noticed the barrel end had been cupped and a "25" was written in there. Holy cow, Tim Tony is supposed to be Jim Thome! I guess the Cooper bat company mis-heard the name. It's not like anyone knew who Jim Thome was back then.