Heritage Platinum Auction

[bobbyw8469]

Bottom line, I am not doubting that this bat was once owned by and used by Joe Jackson. I have no doubt that it was given to a family member and I respect the paper trail that makes this more than a $12 flea market bat, like someone else said it is worth if it didn't have the paper trail. I am doubting that this was "Black Betsy". Mr. Jackson had numerous bats, all of them given names. In addition to Black Betsy, there was a Blonde Betsy, Caroliny, Lil Genril, Dixie, etc. The family member was bequeathed "a bat". How do we know this is not "Dixie", his most used bat? Surely Joe would have kept around his most used bat his entire life! Jackson only used "Black Betsy" in dire situations. Joe believed that bats had a certain number of "hits" in their life, and once he went into a slump, he thought the bat was "used up" and he discarded the bat, except for "Black Betsy", which he thought had special powers. Therefore, whoever bought the Joe Jackson bat on Aug 4, did indeed buy a "Joe Jackson" bat. Calling it "Black Betsy", unless you are God yourself, brings rise to doubt in my eyes. For all I know, Mr. Jackson was buried with the bat down in Greenville SC. He thought that the bat had special powers, so it wouldn't surprise me if a man from the South would be buried with it. He needed something to play the game with in Heaven. But then again, maybe he isn't? To make a long story short, a Heritage customer paid alot of money for a Joe Jackson bat. Which one? Who knows.....