Max Bats Wantlist (Rollins, Markakis, Roberts, Werth, etc)

[Greg Cleveland]

Re: New Small Player Collection - Max Bats

They've been at Twinsfest for many years. A few years ago, they had a table set up for kids to paint their own mini MAX bat. While my boys finished theirs up, Corey Koskie came over with his kids to get them started. Pretty cool idea to make a souveneer. I bought a pair of batting gloves from them for $10. (IIRC)

Nick went the Peter Max route, while Kendal kept his basic black with yellow on the end. The tough part was going places without smudging them! My wife eventually sat in the bleachers with the bats until they dried. She's a keeper!

 

[tpeichel]

Re: New Small Player Collection - Max Bats

They've been at Twinsfest for many years. A few years ago, they had a table set up for kids to paint their own mini MAX bat. While my boys finished theirs up, Corey Koskie came over with his kids to get them started. Pretty cool idea to make a souveneer. I bought a pair of batting gloves from them for $10. (IIRC)

Nick went the Peter Max route, while Kendal kept his basic black with yellow on the end. The tough part was going places without smudging them! My wife eventually sat in the bleachers with the bats until they dried. She's a keeper!

Cool. Can't see the logo in the pic though, so can't add it to my checklist!

 

[Greg Cleveland]

Re: New Small Player Collection - Max Bats

They have a stamp on the end of the handle, and stickers to put the logo on yourself after painting.

 

[tpeichel]

Re: New Small Player Collection - Max Bats

A few more interesting tidbits from Paul Johnson at Max Bat:

1) He claims the the average MLB game bat lasts less than 5 AB (I'm skeptical or maybe I misheard him)
2) Ross Gload once used a Max Bat for 275 ABs
3) The day before we arrived, they had just completed a rush order for Jimmy Rollins for a dozen bats. They looked at previous orders and knew it was impossible that he could need more, but Jimmy just wanted "fresh" bats.
4) Don't store your bats in extreme heat or cold as that tends to dry the wood out
5) MLB requires that the grain of the wood be at least 97% vertical. Max Bat claims that using round wood billets (only one other bat company uses these) instead of square billets allows them to have a lower percent that do not meet the 97% threshold
6) The owner of the company has a son named Max. When he was making bats in his basement, as soon as he made the Max Bat logo and put it on the bat, he knew he needed to try and make a business out of it.

And that's it for your useless information of the day.

 

[FortyFour]

Re: New Small Player Collection - Max Bats

A few more interesting tidbits from Paul Johnson at Max Bat:

1) He claims the the average MLB game bat lasts less than 5 AB (I'm skeptical or maybe I misheard him)
2) Ross Gload once used a Max Bat for 275 ABs
3) The day before we arrived, they had just completed a rush order for Jimmy Rollins for a dozen bats. They looked at previous orders and knew it was impossible that he could need more, but Jimmy just wanted "fresh" bats.
4) Don't store your bats in extreme heat or cold as that tends to dry the wood out
5) MLB requires that the grain of the wood be at least 97% vertical. Max Bat claims that using round wood billets (only one other bat company uses these) instead of square billets allows them to have a lower percent that do not meet the 97% threshold
6) The owner of the company has a son named Max. When he was making bats in his basement, as soon as he made the Max Bat logo and put it on the bat, he knew he needed to try and make a business out of it.

And that's it for your useless information of the day.

What a pain the ass.

 

[tpeichel]

Re: New Small Player Collection - Max Bats

A few more interesting tidbits from Paul Johnson at Max Bat:

1) He claims the the average MLB game bat lasts less than 5 AB (I'm skeptical or maybe I misheard him)
2) Ross Gload once used a Max Bat for 275 ABs
3) The day before we arrived, they had just completed a rush order for Jimmy Rollins for a dozen bats. They looked at previous orders and knew it was impossible that he could need more, but Jimmy just wanted "fresh" bats.
4) Don't store your bats in extreme heat or cold as that tends to dry the wood out
5) MLB requires that the grain of the wood be at least 97% vertical. Max Bat claims that using round wood billets (only one other bat company uses these) instead of square billets allows them to have a lower percent that do not meet the 97% threshold
6) The owner of the company has a son named Max. When he was making bats in his basement, as soon as he made the Max Bat logo and put it on the bat, he knew he needed to try and make a business out of it.

And that's it for your useless information of the day.

What a pain the ass.

Contract year and World Series run definitely require fresh bats!

 

[tpeichel]

Re: New Small Player Collection - Max Bats

Added wantlist to first page.

 

[henderson939]

Re: New Small Player Collection - Max Bats

Nice story Tim. Good luck with the collection.

 

[tpeichel]

Re: New Small Player Collection - Max Bats

Nice story Tim. Good luck with the collection.

I'm sure I'll be caught up to your Henderson collection in no time.

 

[henderson939]

Re: New Small Player Collection - Max Bats

Nice story Tim. Good luck with the collection.

I'm sure I'll be caught up to your Henderson collection in no time.

The way things are going for me, you may be right.

 

[packbusta]

Re: New Small Player Collection - Max Bats

2011 Topps 154 Marlon Byrd

 

[tpeichel]

Re: New Small Player Collection - Max Bats

You've been thanked!

 

[tpeichel]

Re: New Small Player Collection - Max Bats

Package arrived from ArtVandelay with some new additions to my Max Bat player collection:

Jimmy Rollins and Gomes

Marlon Byrd

Kubel and Markakis

Roberts and Markakis

Roger Bernadina

 

[tpeichel]

Re: New Small Player Collection - Max Bats

Haven't checklisted any cards for these players, but they may be out there as they have game used Max Bats on eBay.

Boesch, Brennan
Castro, Juan
Conger, Hank
Golson, Greg
Headley, Chase
Sizemore, Scott
Sheffield, Gary
Wallace, Brett

 

[pujols5hof]

Re: New Small Player Collection - Max Bats

i searched and searched my 206 singles and have none that you need.
but i found these. i dont know what the hamilton is? but i think the werth is a max?

 

[tpeichel]

Re: New Small Player Collection - Max Bats

i searched and searched my 206 singles and have none that you need.
but i found these. i dont know what the hamilton is? but i think the werth is a max?

Hey, thanks for checking. I've done double takes at the bat that Hamilton has but it isn't a Max Bat. Very curious what it is though? The Werth is probably a Max Bat, he just needed to rotate the bat a quarter turn and we'd no for sure.

 

[PujolsCollector]

Re: New Small Player Collection - Max Bats

i searched and searched my 206 singles and have none that you need.
but i found these. i dont know what the hamilton is? but i think the werth is a max?

Hey, thanks for checking. I've done double takes at the bat that Hamilton has but it isn't a Max Bat. Very curious what it is though? The Werth is probably a Max Bat, he just needed to rotate the bat a quarter turn and we'd no for sure.

Louisville Slugger M9 is what the Hamilton bat is

 

[tpeichel]

Re: New Small Player Collection - Max Bats

Ha, 50% of the guys I collect use Max Bats. Wicked. (I also collect Josh Hamilton when he's cheap. I just don't advertise it)

You probably saw that Markakis has three bats on the Bay this week. I'd loved to get a Rollins at some point.

 

[Dazed]

Re: New Small Player Collection - Max Bats

While looking through some cards the other day I checked for Max Bats cards.
From you Wanted List:

2010 Topps Update US-79 Gomes and 2011 Bowman Platinum 61 Werth

A couple you probably know about they are just the Chrome version:

2011 Topps Chrome 111 Byrd and 113 Werth

One not on your list:

2008 UD Baseball Heroes 15 Brian Roberts

Shoot me a PM with your address and I'll get them to you next week.

Also, how old is Max Bats? Just wondering because I don't want to go through cards from 2005 if they didn't start making bats until 2006.

 

[tpeichel]

Re: New Small Player Collection - Max Bats

Max Bat Mail Day - J-Roll