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Originally Posted by rats60
Why would Joe Pepitone get paperwork for a bat taken without his consent? A player like Joe Pepitone would have signed an endorsement deal with the bat manufacturer. Part of that deal would be providing Joe bats to use in games.
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That the bat may have been taken without his consent seems immaterial inasmuch as he has known where the bat was and hasn't demanded it's immediate return to him at any time in the past 54 years.
If I understand the article correctly, Pepitone claims that the HoF told him that he could get the bat back any time he asked and is now reneging. That seems just like the type of agreement that should have been memorialized in writing. Otherwise, you are left right where we are: competing claims regarding a decades old conversation with no documentary evidence one way or the other.