New 70's/80's Adirondack Info

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This is not a major breakthrough, but since this issue stumped everyone here at GUU I thought I would post the limited amount I discovered about this bat to add a little something to our collective knowledge of late 70's/early 80' Adirondack bats.

Recently I posted a question about this Cecil Cooper bat http://www.premierauctionsonline.com....cfm?lID=23326 , trying to figure out what I was looking at. The centerbrand and barrel look normal, but the knob markings are unlike any I had previously seen. Well, here is what I found out. Again, not Earth-shattering, but a nice little addition to the knowledge pile from an era of collecting that we really should know more about.

Apparently this style of knob marking is a rare variation that started just before the style change in 1980. It was used for only a short time. It is unclear which of the two years the variation was used for certain, but it can be narrowed down to either late 1979 or early 1980. Special thanks to Tim Byington for helping me figure this out.

If anyone else has examples of this type of knob markings on the RAD bats from this era, please post pics. I'd love to see as many samples as possible so we can support this "theory" with more "data"