Speaking of Bats...old bat question

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Posted By: leon

A nice Net54'er sent me these scans a few days ago to post for him. For the record they were about 2.5mb each and had a weird file name, which are the reasons they woudn't post. The size was about 20x too big, and the file names had a dash in them (which won't work) but here are the scans....Does anyone have an idea about the specifics of this bat? Thanks in advance.....

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Posted By: brock

Could be a very old baseball bat or a stick ball bat?

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

New York C_____ School? Stickball or playground ball bat. Probably circa 1920-30s.

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Posted By: George H. Counter

Saw this one on eBay a couple of weeks ago.

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Posted By: joe

Leon, looks like an Indoor bat. I have a Cobb bat that is shaped like that and it has Indoor printed on the bat.

By the way, I can't post anymore photos, temporary space is filled.

Joe

Ty Cobb, Spikes flying!

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Posted By: John Harrell

Leon,

Based on a bat I have, I would say that the letters NYCS stand for New York Central Station. The bat I have has the letters NYCRR and is made from an old railroad tool, which is what I suspect this bat is made from. My bat dates from the late 1870's-mid 1880's and I would guess that this bat dates from approximately the same period. I have some documentation that shows the particular tools that were used for bats.

John

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Interesting John...I've seen stickball/indoor/playground bats that look exactly like this.

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Posted By: dynarl

I purchased this bat at an antique shop in Indiana and it was displayed with other railroad items. It had a tag that said it was a railroad bat. Thanks John for the info!

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Posted By: leon

You guys are good. Thanks for helping a brother out!! Remember if you ever want to post a scan I can do it for you, though it might take me a bit of time....My temp folder never gets filled up as it's unlimited.....(dictatorship has it's privileges)

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Posted By: dynarl

Leon went out of his way to put my scan on for me! THANKS LEON