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[steve B]

Originally Posted by drc

Team index bats were player model bats ordered by the team for general use. A team index bat could have been used by various players. They often were in different size and weight than what the actual player ordered so can be differentiated from, say, Mickey Mantle's personally ordered bats. Team index bats can definitely be MLB game used, but not necceesarilly by the player who's named on the bat. With a team index bat, there can be a debate about who actually used it.

Thanks for the explanation. I didn't know they did bats like that with players names. The only one I have has the team name. (Cubs, and was supposedly Damon Berryhills.)

Steve B

[ruth-gehrig]

I took a piece of baseball memorabilia to the National last year I was considering selling. All I kept hearing from individual dealers was "keep your fingers crossed" if you consign to an auction house. Now I know why!!

[GoldenAge50s]

This just in to my EM box from MEARS:

Regarding "Lot #2: 1865 Rare Abraham Lincoln Signed Endorsement Concerning the Case of Sergeant Major Adam Laws, 19th United States Colored Troops", we have been contacted by the National Archives and Records Administration Office of Inspector General and informed that the Lincoln document appears to be an official Federal Record. It has been requested that MEARS Auctions withdraw the item from our current auction while the National Archives and Records Administration Office of Inspector General establish more clearly it's provenance.
If after the review the provenance has been clarified, we will offer the consignor the opportunity to re-auction the document at a later time.

Regards,



Troy R. Kinunen/MEARS Auctions