a while back, i posted some bat barrel cards that i have in my steve garvey collection. super cool stuff, at least to me, and i am always keeping an eye out for more of them. when i saw the 2021 leaf lumber checklist, the card that most interested me was the bat rack card of garvey, cey, russell, lopes. however, i was also hoping to get a crack at either the 1/1 bat knob or the 1/1 off the end of the bat cards.
well....
i am happy to report that i got them both!
and photo:
to be honest i thought the end of the bat card would be a bit better. the piece of bat is not as thick as i would have thought it would be, but i am still happy to have the card. especially since it has the psa/dna and jsa stickers attached.
the beauty of the psa/dna sticker on the end of the bat is that i can access the database and find out more information about it - check it out here! i grabbed a couple of the photos
and am confident that both of these cards come from the same bat. you can see in the photo above that it is the knob used on the card for sure! and you can see the other ink (and sticker) from the end of the bat on this photo:
with the photos found at that link, it is clear that both the end and knob come from the same bat, which sold at auction in 2019 for $360. whomever won the auction then took it to jsa to get the signature authenticated and the second sticker applied to the end of the bat that later wound up on the card. here is the jsa verification.
the bat card that i picked up earlier from this same release - the one that featured an exterior chunk of bat - looks like it came from the same bat as this end and knob which makes complete sense. in fact, i think i can see the part of the bat that my chunk came from
seems legit.
i looked through my garvey collection for cards that showed bat ends the best, and his 1982 fleer card
the bat that leaf cut up likely comes from 1987 since it was signed by garvey in 1988 (assuming the "88" notation under his autograph is meant to denote the date). of course, the bat could be from some point earlier in his career, too.
there was another bat knob garvey card issued this year, and it was from 2021 topps sterling
i did not acquire this card - the asking price was and still is pretty high, so i'll just settle for the card images!
Wow that is some great research! Sure looks like the same bat to me. I wonder how the heck Leaf came to acquire the bat. It's almost a shame they cut it up.
ReplyDeletethe internet can be a useful tool!
DeleteI've never seen one of those knob cards in person, but have always imagined that they would probably be pretty thick... certainly too thick for a binder page :)
ReplyDeletequite thick and actually too thick. the knob is more recessed than i would have thought. my bat barrel cards aren't thick enough. go figure. since i am a binder guy, these go in 4-pocket pages.
Delete$360 for a game-used signed bat? Someone got a great deal back in 2019. Awesome pair of cards. Guess we'll be seeing a ton of Leaf Garvey bat cards with all of the wood from the middle of the bat in their inventory.
ReplyDeletei wonder how much leaf bought the bat for. the buyer who presumably sold to them added the jsa certification at a cost which really shouldn't have mattered to leaf since they just cut the bat up.
DeleteSo Leaf buys the bat for $360 - cut it up into how many pieces? I see 20 total Leaf bat cards in 2021 for Garvey (including your bat knob) on TCDB. Surely you could get a lot more pieces of bat on a card? Where is the rest of the bat? And how many cards do they have to sell at what price to make a profit if they are spending $300-400 a bat? (So many questions . . .)
ReplyDeletei think leaf paid more for the bat, assuming they weren't the auction winner and they weren't the ones who added the jsa certification. they've issued quite a number of garvey bat cards over the last couple of years - not just 2021. and those cards have varying print runs. still, there should be a lot of the bat left at this point.
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