This has to be the lowest moment of this guy’s professional career.
Team deals pitcher for 10 bats!
But not just any old bats lying around, oh no!
10 Prairie Sticks Maple Bats, double-dipped black 34-inch C243 style.
According to the Prairie Sticks Web site, their maple bats retail for $69 a piece, discounted to $65.50 for purchases of six to 11 bats.
I found this via alltop. Jamie Livingston took a Polaroid daily from March 31, 1979 to October 25, 1997 (his 41st birthday and also the day he died).
The actual site of the photographs and some other links about it:
Mental Floss (with some of the photos)
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn has a lot of information about the pictures and the accompanying exhibit.