Joe DiMaggio professional model team ordered baseball bat...

Joe DiMaggio professional model team ordered baseball bat with exhibition game use attribution c.1946-48 (PSA/DNA "GU 8"). Louisville Slugger 125 model bat with DiMaggio facsimile signature in the barrel measures 35" long and weighs 33.1oz. Model number "D29" is factory stamped in the knob. Evidence of heavy use with tape removed from a handle crack which is repaired with nails. Ball contact and cleat marks are visible on the hitting surface. An included letter of provenance details the bats' history having been given by DiMaggio to the original recipient, a batboy, during a late 1940s exhibition game played in Georgia. As detailed in the PSA letter, the bat is a team ordered model and does not appear on DiMaggio's records specifically. It further relays that "in light of the unofficial status of the game and its scheduling as the team was traveling North, we find it feasible for DiMaggio to use a team ordered bat rather than one of his own...the small knobbed bats [as this one is] were used by DiMaggio during his career and he also ordered bats measuring 35 inches...we cite the possibility of Joe using this small knobbed 35 inch bat during an exhibition game." A fine alternative to an otherwise prohibitively expensive version (one which appears on Joe's personal records) with strong attribution to use during a storied career. Includes full LOA from PSA/DNA (graded "GU 8") and aforementioned letter of provenance: EX

估價:$20,000

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