February pickups

[sayhey24]

That Buddy Lewis bat is great - especially because it's just his signature name on the barrel, which makes it look older.
Here's my guess on the bat -- his bio says after he retired from baseball he operated a bowling alley and a car dealership , so maybe he asked H&B to make him a copy of his bat so he could display it at one of those places. He was also very involved with American Legion baseball and at one point had a field named after him, so maybe he was given the bat at some sort of special presentation.
The good thing is, it still looks great!

By the way, I have a Lefty Gomez and Floyd Patterson from that same time period -- same thing, just the branded signature on the barrel.


Greg