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The Joe DiMaggio "Streak" Bat
Posted By: Dan B
After doing some research I have found some interesting items regarding DiMaggio and his bats during the streak. In a 1969 article in the Christian Science Monitor by Herb Goren, DiMaggio says "I would order a dozen bats. They would all look alike, same size, same weight. But there's always one that feels different. That's the one I'd work on. I would dip it in olive oil. I'd sprinkle it with resin. I'd put a small flame to it. And when it was good and dry, I'd file it down with sand paper. It would be hard and smooth and black. This was my bread and butter bat." He also states in the article that he never used his gamer in batting practice. I have done some research and have come to the conclusion that Joe used 4 bats during the streak. Bat number ONE was stolen in Washington between games of a double-header after Joe had hit in 41 straight games. Tommy Henrich was headed to the plate in game two and DiMaggio yelled at him that he had his bat. Henrich came back and told DiMaggio that it was a bat that Joe had lent him in early June. DiMaggio could tell right away that it wasn't his streak bat so he gave it back to Henrich. Joe took a new bat, Bat number TWO. DiMaggio used bat number TWO for 3 plate appearances getting a sac-fly a line out and a fly out. In the seventh inning Henrich urged DiMaggio to take his bat. DiMaggio then took the bat, bat number THREE the one he loaned Henrich and prompltly got a hit with it. Joe used bat number THREE for two games. When bat number ONE was returned to him (thanks to the mob?). He then used Bat number ONE until he broke it (this according to the Christian Science Monitor article). Joe then used bat number FOUR up through the end of the streak when it was ended in Cleveland on July 17th. |
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The Joe DiMaggio "Streak" Bat
Posted By: mike
Taking no position on Dave Bushing or the bat, this inquiry is good. Thanks! |
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The Joe DiMaggio "Streak" Bat
Posted By: PASJD
It is more important to the owner what he thinks he has, than what he actually has. As the poet Wallace Stevens wrote, "what we said about it became a part of what it was." Then again, one can hope that efforts like this and Robert's will put the pressure on the gentlemen involved, if not to give explanations for past auctions, then at least to be more thorough in the future. One would like to think that if a mistake was made, it was made in good faith. Then again, between the recent talk of this item and the T206 Wagner, one feels a bit cynical and disillusioned towards some of the hobby icons in whom one has had faith in the past. One is reminded of Caesar's surprise and disillusionment in seeing Brutus among his assasins. |
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The Joe DiMaggio "Streak" Bat
Posted By: dennis
it has the stamp of authentic and the price to prove it is. |
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The Joe DiMaggio "Streak" Bat
Posted By: Dan B
You may be right, but I place the "perception is reality" folks in the same category of "more money than brains". |
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The Joe DiMaggio "Streak" Bat
Posted By: PASJD
P.T. Barnum had it right, didn't he ("There's a sucker born every minute."). I guess the philosophical question here is should we feel outraged, or should we shrug our shoulders because the buyer has only himself to blame. |
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The Joe DiMaggio "Streak" Bat
Posted By: Paul
This is not an effort to take sides at all. But I was just wondering if it is typical for a bat to last through 41+ games before it cracks. I had always assumed that batters went through a few bats a week. |
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The Joe DiMaggio "Streak" Bat
Posted By: Dan B
It may not be typical especially in modern times, but DiMaggio never used his gamers in BP, rarely swung at bad pitches that were likely to break a bat (Inside pitches) and he strengthened them using his own technique. That may be why his bat lasted that long, but I don't think it was especially unusual for the times. |
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The Joe DiMaggio "Streak" Bat
Posted By: Scott
What if you had been trying forever to find a painting by Picasso and you finally purchased one that was "just right". Several years after it's been hanging on your living room wall, impressing your friends, a source of great pleasure to you and your family...you find out that someone associated with the person you bought it from was busted for forging Picasso paintings...ouch! |
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The Joe DiMaggio "Streak" Bat
Posted By: leon
But there is a law that says if someone permits something then eventually it becomes fact or law. In other words if a dividing line of 2 houses is assumed by both parties, even though it's not really the boundary, then after time it is the "real" boundary. Maybe if we assume the Wagner isn't trimmed then over time it won't be? later |
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The Joe DiMaggio "Streak" Bat
Posted By: steve k
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time." |
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The Joe DiMaggio "Streak" Bat
Posted By: Tom Boblitt
Hillerich and Bradsby............ |
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The Joe DiMaggio "Streak" Bat
Posted By: Julie
The bat the Joe loaned Heinrich in June became a de facto streak bat when the bat he had chosen didn't produce--he asked Heinrich for the bat back (even though he KNEW it wasn't one he had worked on, and hadn't planned on using it to keep his streak going). He used it in two games, until someone returned a bat that was stolen earlier. |
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The Joe DiMaggio "Streak" Bat
Posted By: Anonymous
That bat was never given back to Henrich. It was donated to the USO and raffled off for a grand total of $1,600+. Imagine finding that one in your attic. |
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The Joe DiMaggio "Streak" Bat
Posted By: hankron
This "perception is reality" theory is known as total cr*p ... It's on the order of when the sellers of the 'genuine' T206 Blue Eyed Wagner would bring out their mantra, "It's worth whatever someone is welling to pay for it" and had a minimum bid of $1 million. If someone pays $1 million for that baseball card, the only reality there will be that the buyer's an idiot and the sellers will be in deep legal sh*t. |
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The Joe DiMaggio "Streak" Bat
Posted By: Scott
however, we are attempting to explain why people who are smart enough to know better still insist that items they possess are legit. |
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The Joe DiMaggio "Streak" Bat
Posted By: John Basilone
"That bat was never given back to Henrich. It was donated to the USO and raffled off for a grand total of $1,600+. Imagine finding that one in your attic." |
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The Joe DiMaggio "Streak" Bat
Posted By: hankron
Taking a unusual chance, I once placed a before I go to bed bid and a bit suprised to find out I won on eBay an leather jacket that supposedly was worn by a significant woman on the cover of a magazine. It was obviously the same 'design' of jacket as on the magazine cover, but what do I know about these things. After I won it I was able to contact via email the jacket's designer in London. I asked her about it and what were her thoughts (I showed her pics including of the labels). She said matter of factly that it was the jacket on the cover, as the jacket was custom designed and made for the photo shoot and only one was ever made. Sounded good to me. |
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The Joe DiMaggio "Streak" Bat
Posted By: Robert Plancich
I would like it to be known that when it comes to this bat that I do not have any kind of "agenda" nor do I consider myself a "stalker' of Dave Bushing. |
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The Joe DiMaggio "Streak" Bat
Posted By: mike
Not that those procedures are perfect (errors and dishonesty are possible and missed), academic and medical research is peer reviewed. |
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The Joe DiMaggio "Streak" Bat
Posted By: Robert Plancich
The MastroNet auction catalog does state that this bat was "specially marked" (thanks Julie) which couldn't be further from the truth. This particular model bat was made in 1941 and 1942 and there is no possible way to tell which year and/or which shipment of bats that this "streak" bat came from - there are no special markings on this bat whatsoever. The only thing making this bat was it purports to be is a letter from Tommy Henrich stating that he can remember a shipment of bat sent to DiMaggio on 07.01.41 and that he can now specificially identify that bat. Now the question that begs to be asked is how did Tommy Henrich acquire the information about the shipping dates for bats that were sent not to him, but to DiMaggio? He must be the only player that i know of that has total recall of such information. What's kind of funny is that he can recall this tiny bit of information and yet he had totally forgotten that he had this historically significant DiMaggio 56-game hitting streak bat that he had left at his mother house for the past 63 years - until Dave Bushing came along. Lucky for all of us that Dave Bushing & Dan Knoll were there to authenticate this bat for us! |
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The Joe DiMaggio "Streak" Bat
Posted By: Dan Bretta
Not to mention that Henrich himself states that he was not close to Joe. In fact in all the years they played together he never went out with DiMaggio once. I could not find any instance of Henrich stating that he was given a streak bat from DiMaggio. However there is evidence to show that Henrich would borrow bats from Joe and that he used the exact same model bat. |
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