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Holy Cow:VanderMeer bat

Postby larjoranj » August 26th, 2012, 10:40 pm

Went for 1,700. I was interested and I'm embarrassed to say I thought I'd have a shot at it with 250

http://www.ebay.com/itm/350588196107?ss ... 1423.l2649
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Re: Holy Cow:VanderMeer bat

Postby vintagebrett » August 27th, 2012, 6:16 am

In under two months it went from a $17 bat on eBay to a $1700 bat on eBay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... _500wt_922
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Re: Holy Cow:VanderMeer bat

Postby ebbets55 » August 27th, 2012, 10:48 am

Interesting. I'm not a bat guy so I have a question. Is enhancing a signature on a bat as bad as it is on a glove? That's a big no no on gloves, but what about bats?

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Re: Holy Cow:VanderMeer bat

Postby murphusa » August 27th, 2012, 11:10 am

It looks to me like they gave it a really good cleaning and oiled it up to give it its shine.

I think the same as with gloves, you leave the enhancing to the card guy
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Re: Holy Cow:VanderMeer bat

Postby larjoranj » August 27th, 2012, 2:47 pm

They mention on the first auction the handle and barrel are cracked. The handle crack is easily visible. It's not mentioned on the most recent auction. Can those cracks be fixed to where they aren't noticeable?
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Re: Holy Cow:VanderMeer bat

Postby vintagebrett » August 27th, 2012, 3:03 pm

larjoranj wrote:They mention on the first auction the handle and barrel are cracked. The handle crack is easily visible. It's not mentioned on the most recent auction. Can those cracks be fixed to where they aren't noticeable?


Yes, cracks can be fixed fairly easily - depending on the work sometimes it's difficult to tell that a repair was made. Of course if you're selling a bat and know a repair was made that information should be made available.
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Re: Holy Cow:VanderMeer bat

Postby rondonmb » August 27th, 2012, 6:35 pm

I think someone paid a lot for a store model bat......
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Re: Holy Cow:VanderMeer bat

Postby murphusa » August 27th, 2012, 10:40 pm

a refinished store bat at that
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Re: Holy Cow:VanderMeer bat

Postby softball66 » September 4th, 2012, 4:55 pm

Now that the VanderMeer bat topic is up, I have a Kren VanderMeer mini bat and wondered about the connection.
Two other Reds pitchers bats of that 1939-40 are interesting in that: pitchers game bats are difficult to locate. Generally I'm told pitchers often used players bats, mainly team ordered bats.
I had a Bucky Walters gamer that was highly sought. Also told a few years before that that a Paul Derringer game bat was available and that I should "jump on it."
Brett's dad did a very nice name refinishing job on a Lou Gehrig store model for me. I think that with bats this is more acceptable than trying to enhance or "fill" stamping on gloves.
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