Dale Murphy 80-87 LV B310

[earlywynnfan]

Can you please tell me how many Dale Murphy B310 bats went to him, and were there "baseball promotions" bats of his during this time period? I'm looking at a 34.5" bat.

Ken

[MSpecht]

Hi Ken---

Between 1/7/80 and 6/12/81 (the first half of the 1980-1983 label period) Murphy was shipped numerous orders of B310 bats for his professional use. During that specific time frame they should be 34.5 inches (10 orders) or 35 inches (1 order) in length and weigh between 32 and 33 ounces. All were Flame Treated Finish and had cupped ends (B310C)

During the 84-85 lableing period, Murphy had 13 orders of bats. Of the 13 orders, two were for K55 models and one was for S2 models. The remaining 10 orders were for B310 or B310C ( cupped ) models.

There are numerous Baseball Miscellanoues orders, but was we know from this time period, expecially with star players, there were a lot of bats ordered for promotional purposes that never made it inside the clubhouse. I have not counted any of those orders.

If your bat is cupped, then its from 1984. There were only two orders for B310C model bats that year. There were none in 1985. Both orders in 1984 were for 34.5" - 32 ounce models.

That leaves eight ( 8 ) orders your bat could be from. Let's narrow this down even further. There is only one B310 order in 1985. That order was for 36 pieces of 34.5" - 32 ounce lumber that was Flame Treated.

That leaves seven ( 7 ) B310 orders from 1984. The remaining seven orders are all for 34.5" bats. All the orders are 32 ounce to 32.5 ounce bats Of these seven remaining orders, five of them are for flame treated bats.One order was for unfinished models and the other order in the records did not have a finish selection indicated.

Good Luck-- Jim C. may have some additional information regarding specific numbers of promo bats shipped.

Mike jackitout7@aol.com