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Posted By: Dan Bretta

What you and your buddy did is technically illegal (collusion) even though it happens all the time at estate auctions...I used to make deals like that all the time, but by now most around here know me and what I collect and I've just become friends with them and they don't bid me up...for the most part. It's just sort of an unspoken agreement...I don't bid against them and they don't bid against me. Doesn't always work that way though as sometime you and your pal just want the same thing bad enough.

As far as price goes you did well...I had a TC40 bat without the decal that I sold for $150 a few years back...and the minor league bat could be of interest to someone who collects items from the teams he played for. He played a lot of Triple A ball.