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[soxfan]

Do the bat companies ever ship bats to players early or later than the dte year stamped on the bat knob?

Example...a bat stamped on the knob with "08" but got ordered and shipped to a player during the 2007 season...or even during the 2009 season?

Any info has the potential to help me out a great deal!

Jeremy

macleodjeremy@hotmail.com

[soxfan]

just to add to this...

Is there any way to find out how many bats were ordered for a certain year by a certain player?

I know we have the LVS connection on GUU but my bat in questions is my 2008 David Ortiz Gamer that I am trying to figure out if he got it early (for the last end of the post-season of 2007) or maybe even late 2008 into eearly 2009.

It definetly is not a BP bat as it does not have a ton of use, and BP's tend to be beat to hell.

Any info would be great!

As for the know, there was a #34 on there, but it has been worn off, but when the bat is in hand, you can see the faint outline of the #34 in silver sharpie...which leads me to believe it is from Opening Day 2008 at Fenway Park, as it was basically the only day Ortiz used the rust/black rawlings during game play in all of 2008.

Sorry for the long winded rant, but this has been my "Holy Grail" for years and I bought it from an impecable source (John Taube www.gameusedbats.com (http://www.gameusedbats.com)) and his stuff is ALWAYS top notch!

Thanks!

Please feel free to post any comments here or email me, I ma eager to hear and get some feedback wheather it be positive/negative or indifferent.

Jeremy

macleodjeremy@hotmail.com

[BMH]

I guess I'm missing something here but how do you know it was shipped early? Or I should say, what makes you believe it was shipped early?

[suave1477]

just to add to this...





It definetly is not a BP bat as it does not have a ton of use, and BP's tend to be beat to hell.

Any info would be great!

As for the know, there was a #34 on there, but it has been worn off, but when the bat is in hand, you can see the faint outline of the #34 in silver sharpie...which leads me to believe it is from Opening Day 2008 at Fenway Park, as it was basically the only day Ortiz used the rust/black rawlings during game play in all of 2008.

Jeremy

macleodjeremy@hotmail.com

Well not sure if you would consider this beat to hell but......

Here is the bat Ortiz used in October for BP

http://cache2.asset-cache.net/xc/83081284.jpg?v=1&c=NewsMaker&k=2&d=77BFBA49EF8789215ABF3343C02EA548C5C889F4D9AAA6D4 E16CAD4FB6F085B277EC3B650F09C0A7

Here is one from BP in September

http://cache4.asset-cache.net/xc/82962768.jpg?v=1&c=NewsMaker&k=2&d=77BFBA49EF8789215ABF3343C02EA5485D7E63035DCE9C9A 5B3393704D56568E28C40A725D39CB05

This is Ortiz in Spring Training

http://cache4.asset-cache.net/xc/80110127.jpg?v=1&c=NewsMaker&k=2&d=77BFBA49EF8789215ABF3343C02EA5489C58A28B51455F9E 5D81C576A8B026010AAC5E5CB4561814

[suave1477]

Another Ortiz Bat during BP in October

[suave1477]

Here is another during BP in Spring Training

[soxfan]

BMH,

I am not sure that they caan or do get shipped early...I only saw ortiz use the @ tone (red/black) Rawlings during the Opening Day game at Fenway, and have only seen a handfull of images from that show him using the @ tone in BP, and all of them seem to have a few very distintictive ball marks on the barrels.

I was just inquiring as maybe he could have received the bats for the Playoffs in 2007, and since there are far more knowledgeable collectors out there, I wanted to put it out there to see if that could be the case.

Jeremy

macleodjeremy@hotmail.com

[soxfan]

I have been trying for months to find and match this bat, so aside from MLBTV and the 4 BIG photo sites...if I cant come up with any evidence there, should I give up the quest to photomatch this bat?

I still have a faint belief...or maybe its hope, that it is one of the bats Ortiz used during 2008 Opening Day at Fenway, but I cant get a clear enough pic and MLBTV is quite grainy...

Jeremy

macleodjeremy@hotmail.com

[soxfan]

Still trying to photo-match this bat..any help is greatly appreciated!

jeremy

[suave1477]

It's probably a BP bat which will be pretty hard to Photomatch since there isn't a lot of photos during BP posted.

[metsbats]

BMH,

I am not sure that they caan or do get shipped early...I only saw ortiz use the @ tone (red/black) Rawlings during the Opening Day game at Fenway, and have only seen a handfull of images from that show him using the @ tone in BP, and all of them seem to have a few very distintictive ball marks on the barrels.

I was just inquiring as maybe he could have received the bats for the Playoffs in 2007, and since there are far more knowledgeable collectors out there, I wanted to put it out there to see if that could be the case.

Jeremy

macleodjeremy@hotmail.com


Typically Rawlings playoff bats have special stampings in the knobs.

Rawlings of recent vintage typically may have model numbers with the player initials under them followed by a two digit year code (ex. PO/07)