Dave Stieb Practice Used Baseball Bat
Once again at one of the Blue Jays annual garage sales in the Skydome/Rogers Centre, I found what looked like a game used baseball bat with Dave Stieb's name etched into the bat. I never really got a good answer as to why Dave Stieb would have a personalized baseball bat as there was never interleague play back when he played. It wasn’t until many years later when Dave Stieb was doing a signing at AJ Sportsworld that I had the opportunity to ask him the history before he signed the bat.
The first thing he said when he saw the bat was there’s number 4 of 7. He said he had 3 and didn’t have any idea where the other 4 went to after 1985. He said he had 7 bats made for him in 1985 in case they went to the World Series so used them to practice. He then signed the bat and closed that chapter for me. He was happy as he knew where the 4th bat ended up.