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Posted By: Jason Smith

This thread all boils down to a reverence for the history of baseball (or history of art for that matter) vs. the almighty dollar. Even if there are 10 bats out there of Eddie Collins, it's still a shame for them to be chopped up to be put in a baseball card. So what, each collector has a chance at a piece of baseball history. What kind of piece of history is a chip of the inside of a bat? If this bat was intact to begin with then I think it's totally wrong to chop it up like this. If it was a bat that was broken into several pieces already then I could understand their "good intention" of making the history available to everyone. But this comes down to money. The company can turn a profit by destroying a piece of history. End of story. It's wrong (in my opinion), but as long as there are buyers out there for this stuff, then there will be sellers...
Jason