Let’s start a game used bat thread.

[perezfan]

Originally Posted by eastonfalcon19

Keep em coming! I want to see how you guys display your bats.

Here's how I display them. The Adirondack Rack is from the '60s and is a perfect display vehicle for me. Most of my G/U Bats are from the late '50s - mid '70s time frame. So it's a pretty good fit!

Edit: Well dammit... this site always rotates my pics sideways. But hopefully you get the idea.

[Mark]

Originally Posted by perezfan

Here's how I display them. The Adirondack Rack is from the '60s and is a perfect display vehicle for me. Most of my G/U Bats are from the late '50s - mid '70s time frame. So it's a pretty good fit!

Edit: Well dammit... this site always rotates my pics sideways. But hopefully you get the idea.

Super efficient and appropriate display! Not surprised by, but really like, the #24 bats in the front. Is that a T131 next to them? is that an older bat? whose is it?

[Scott Garner]

Here is another of my favorite game used modern era bats that I have in my personal collection:
This is a great Pudge Rodriguez (HOF) 1993 game used Cooper bat that has terrific game use. Check out the cleat marks!

FYI, Pudge was Nolan Ryan's personal catcher in 1993 when he caught Nolan's final strikeout on 9/17/93 @ Anaheim and final win on 8/15/93 at CLE.

I was lucky enough to be sitting directly behind home plate and witnessed Nolan's final strikeout, who for the record, was Greg Myers (C) for the Angels in '93.

Pudge signed and inscribed this bat for me & it's part of my collection of Nolan's career milestone catchers.
I have signed game bats with inscriptions for these following milestone catchers:

John Stephenson- Nolan Ryan's 1st strikeout catcher-1966
Jerry Grote- Nolan Ryan's 1st win catcher-1968
Jeff Torborg- Nolan's 1st no-hitter, 1000th K & ML record 383K catcher-1973
Art Kusnyer- Nolan Ryan's 2nd no-hitter catcher-1973
Tom Egan- Nolan Ryan's 3rd no-hitter- 1974
Ellie Rodriguez- Nolan Ryan's 4th no-hitter and 100th win catcher-1975
Terry Humphrey- Nolan Ryan's 2,000th K-1976
Alan Ashby- Nolan's 5th no-hitter catcher-1981
Luis Pujols- Nolan's 200th win catcher-1982 and 3,000th K catcher-1980
Mark Bailey- Nolan's 4,000th K catcher- 1985
Chad Kreuter- Nolan's 5,000th K catcher 1989
John Russell- Nolan's 6th no-hitter 1990
Geno Petralli- Nolan's 300th win catcher-1990
Mike Stanley- Nolan Ryan's 7th no-hitter catcher
Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez (HOF)- Nolan's last win & last strikeout catcher

[MVSNYC]

Great thread!

Just acquired this...2019 Trout (MVP), photo matched, PSA/DNA GU10.

[Joecoco]

Killer Trout. Love the lizard skin wrap.

[roarfrom34]

On Father's Day 1995 at Tiger Stadium, Cal Ripken Jr. swung/missed at a pitch and uncharacteristically lost the grip of this bat as it "helicoptered" into the stands. Fortunately, no one was injured and the fan who retrieved it offered to pass it back down to the field to Cal, however Jr. motioned back to him that he could keep it.

Time rolled on and the fan who retrieved that errant bat sadly passes away and his son (who sat next to his dad that Father's Day) reached out to me to see if I had interest in the bat & a deal was quickly struck.

When I had Cal sign it, I asked him to add the '1995 Game Used' inscription but most collectors know that Cal won't do that unless he is 110% certain it's true. When I told Cal about the provenance, he fortunately recalled the incident & gladly added the inscription...

Adding also that 1995 is somewhat important to the story because less than three months later, he passed Lou Gehrig for the most Consecutive Games Played Record.

[Tay1038]

Nice Ripken!

[perezfan]

Originally Posted by Mark

Super efficient and appropriate display! Not surprised by, but really like, the #24 bats in the front. Is that a T131 next to them? is that an older bat? whose is it?

Sorry for the delay...

That's a Bobby Tolan Bat, used during his tenure with the Reds. One of those guys who's batting stance we imitated when we were kids. He held the bat way up high, until the pitch was about to come in. Too bad the Reds traded him away just before the Big Red Machine fully took shape.

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by perezfan

Here's how I display them. The Adirondack Rack is from the '60s and is a perfect display vehicle for me. Most of my G/U Bats are from the late '50s - mid '70s time frame. So it's a pretty good fit!

Edit: Well dammit... this site always rotates my pics sideways. But hopefully you get the idea.

Mark, Mark, Mark....

I'd really like to get a similar rack to display some of my 130+ Giants gamers.

[perezfan]

Yeah, that Rack works well, in terms of displaying a lot of bats in a relatively small space. Very efficient, as well as age-appropriate.

Keep checking the Catalog Auctions... one should turn up before you know it!