Rare Vintage Phil Niekro Atlanta Braves Game Used LVS Bat Hall of Fame Pitcher
For your consideration is one of the more difficult finds a game used bat from a Hall-of-Fame Pitcher, Phil Niekro! Phil won an incredible 318 games, the most of any knuckleballer in the history of MLB. He was a 5x all-star and 5x gold glove winner.
Twice he led the NL in Wins and threw a No-hitter for the Braves in 1973. This Louisville Slugger model K48 was used by Niekro during the 1980-83 according to the labeling period and features a very unique tape application to the handle which allowed for two very important fingers to lay on top of the custom padding.
The bat has light grain checking (see photos) and overall use. The bat has Phil's famous #35 on the knob and the bat remains uncracked, displaying great.
According to the original owner this bat was also loaned to the Baseball Hall-of-Fame in 1997 for a special inductee display when Niekro was inducted. The item "Rare Vintage Phil Niekro Atlanta Braves Game Used LVS Bat Hall of Fame Pitcher" is in sale since Friday, September 29, 2017. This item is in the category "Sports Mem, Cards & Fan Shop\Game Used Memorabilia\Baseball-MLB\Bats". The seller is "batstocks" and is located in Sterling, Illinois. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, South africa, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Russian federation, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi arabia, Ukraine, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa rica, Dominican republic, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, El salvador, Honduras, Jamaica.