March 2014 Pick Ups

[I Only Smoke 4 the Cards]

Originally Posted by yanks12025

Joe benson game used bat from 2011, photmatched to have been used to collect his first and second career hits. The baseball is the actual ball he hit for his second career hit(1st career double).

Why did he sell that?

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by I Only Smoke 4 the Cards

Why did he sell that?

Yeah, and Brock - how did you get hold of that bat and ball?

[yanks12025]

Originally Posted by I Only Smoke 4 the Cards

Why did he sell that?

I don't think he sold it. I bought it off a collector over on GUU. I'm guessing the twins sold the bat at one time and the baseball was probably sold by the tigers because they were playing the tigers.

[I Only Smoke 4 the Cards]

Originally Posted by yanks12025

I don't think he sold it. I bought it off a collector over on GUU. I'm guessing the twins sold the bat at one time and the baseball was probably sold by the tigers because they were playing the tigers.

Damn. That seems like an item that the player should own.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by I Only Smoke 4 the Cards

Damn. That seems like an item that the player should own.

Sounds like a good thread opportunity. I'm sure we would get to hear the story about Hank Aaron getting tricked into signing a ball that he probably would have 'retrieved' from the owner if he had known what it was.

I heard a radio talk-show host ask a football player the other day if he "kept the ball" (referring to a touchdown ball), and the player responded that he tossed it aside - in the moment, he hadn't thought to keep it. Equipment managers normally grab such items, tag them and save them on the sidelines, but who knows what ball actually gets given to the player;e.g-Dwight Clarke's 'the catch'.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by yanks12025

I don't think he sold it. I bought it off a collector over on GUU. I'm guessing the twins sold the bat at one time and the baseball was probably sold by the tigers because they were playing the tigers.

Brock, is GUU your main 'go-to' forum for game-used discussions? I ask because I had some questions/comments about game-used, joined GUU, posted a few times, and experienced dead silence. Guessing that I'm simply getting the newbie treatment and that I need to post about 30-40 'great jersey of that 2nd string punter!' comments in order to earn the right to be responded to.

[yanks12025]

Originally Posted by Runscott

Brock, is GUU your main 'go-to' forum for game-used discussions? I ask because I had some questions/comments about game-used, joined GUU, posted a few times, and experienced dead silence. Guessing that I'm simply getting the newbie treatment and that I need to post about 30-40 'great jersey of that 2nd string punter!' comments in order to earn the right to be responded to.

I think it just depends on the topic. Some threads go good but others die..


To go with the benson bat, I also own the Bat Justin Smoak used to collect his first career hit and also his first career homerun with.

[Runscott]

Wow, the Smoak bat is another great item.

As far as GUU goes, I would have thought that someone would have at least said 'welcome' when I first posted.

[cincicards]

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