I thought this would a cool baseball artifact to share with you all in the depths of this very, very long offseason. This bat is one year older than me! Of very unknown origin...in fact, its a little bizarre. This bat was purchased for TWO DOLLARS at a yard sale, by a ten year old girl...in Sacramento, CA. How a bat like this made its way out there, only to end up in a junk pile, I will never know. Or - even weirder - that she would happen to live with an Orioles fan transplant who would look at this bat and become very, very confused as to how she got it....
Need a little help on 3, 17, and 20!
Sure wish we had Jim Palmer or Brady Anderson on here...
1. Sherman Obando
2. Leo Gomez
3. ???
4. Brooks Robinson!!!
5. Ben McDonald
6. Cal Ripken Jr!
7. Gregg Olson
8. Rick Sutcliffe (???)
9. Johnny Oates
10. Paul Carey
11. Mark McLemore
12. Mike Mussina
13. Todd Frohwirth
14. Jeff Tacket
15. Chris Hoiles
16. Harold Baines!
17. ???
18. Davey Lopes
19. Jack Voigt
20. ???
21. Mike Devereaux
22. Harold Reynolds (???)
Thanks for the responses/feedback and validation for the guesses lining up to what we came up with! Certainly a possibility that this is a fake but man...some of these signatures are really good if so. The Cal one is just about the only one I didnt even bother to look up- my brother has a ball he had signed in person and I remember it looking spot on to that. I'll get a pic of that one to compare... Glad there was some interest to look at though! Makes you wonder (if this is real) how many of these sorts of things are laying around garages...
