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Late 1990s Bret Saberhagen Boston Red Sox Game Used Bat
Displayed is a game used bat by 2-time Cy Young Award winner Bret Saberhagen. The right-hander burst onto the Major League scene at an early age. In 1985, when he was only 21 years old, he had a 20-6 record for the Kansas City Royals, and went 2-0 in two complete game starts, with a 0.50 ERA, in the World Series that the Royals won against their cross-state rival, the St. Louis Cardinals. That year Saberhagen won the Cy Young Award and was named the World Series MVP. In 1989, he won another Cy Young Award. Arm surgery on his rotator cuff made him miss the entire 1996 season and pitch ineffectively in only 26 innings for his new team, the Red Sox, in 1997. In 1998, he went 15-8, and after the season he was awarded the Tony Conigliaro Award for his comeback by the Boston Chapter of the Baseball Writers of America. In 1997-99, the span in which this bat was used at some time, Saberhagen went hitless in ten at-bats for the Red Sox. Saberhagen also played on the Red Sox in 2001, but he did not have any at bats for Boston that season. The bat is a Louisville Slugger Genuine P72 Model with both Saberhagen's facsimile signature and the engraved "Boston Red Sox" on the barrel. The bat is 32.5" long and it weighs 30 ounces. Saberhagen's number "17" is handwritten in white marker on the knob. The black bat exhibits nice game use, with slight paint loss around the knob and various other small markings from contact with baseballs. Now, with pitchers in both leagues, except for Ohtani, rarely coming to bat, except in unusual circumstances, the game used bat from Saberhagen, the 2-time Cy Young winner, is a nice, and increasingly unusual, throwback keepsake.
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