Mik’s Mini Bat Collection: Baseball and Coke Grew Up Together

Mik has declared one of his favorite surprises of the trip was finding a mini bat for his collection at the World of Coca Cola on July 14, 2009. It is one of the last places he ever expected to get one for his collection. Not only did they have them, but they had three different designs to choose from. Finding this mini bat was Mik’s favorite surprise of the trip until the surprising upgrade and goodies we got at the Nationals game on July 18, 2009.

The Coca Cola mini bat he chose says Baseball and Coke Grew Up Together. It has an image of a ballplayer holding up a glass bottle of Coca Cola. There is also a giant baseball and a Drink Coca Cola flag as part of the image. The image is on a natural wood colored bat.

Mik’s Mini Bat Collection: Ty Cobb Museum

At the Ty Cobb Museum Mik got a mini bat with the museum’s logo on it. The mini bat is natural wood color. The logo is a small one colored brown. The logo is of a bat standing upright with a ribbon around it that says Ty Cobb Museum. Below the bat it says Royston, GA.

Mik’s Mini Bat Collection: Orioles Park at Camden Yards

Mik choose a mini bat of the ballpark as his Orioles mini bat. He actually got it at the Sports Legends Museum, but they ended up having them at the Orioles game as well. The mini bat is natural on the bottom and has an orange background on the top. There is an image of the ballpark as a sort of aerial view on the mini bat. It says Orioles Park at Camden Yards about the ballpark image.

Mik’s Mini Bat Collection: Babe Ruth

At the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum Mik got a Babe Ruth mini bat. The mini bat has a photo image of Babe Ruth and a Yankees logo on it. It also has the National Baseball Hall of Fame logo. Basically it is the design that they sell at the Hall of Fame, so it is not like it is unique to this attraction, but it was better than the Louisville Slugger that just said Babe Ruth and also did not say anything about it being from the Babe Ruth Museum.

Mik’s Mini Bat Collection: Red Phillies

At the Phillies Game Mik choose a red mini bat. The mini bat says Phillies in dark blue. It also has the Liberty Bell logo in dark blue on it.

Mik’s Mini Bat Collection: Citi Field Inaugural Season

The mini bat Mik got at Ciit Field is light blue in color. It has an orange colored Mets logo on the end. Next to that is the Citi Field Inaugural Season logo.

Mik's Mini Bat Collection: Red Boston Red Sox

The second mini bat Mik got at Fenway Park is a regular Boston Red Sox logo one. He choose the one that is red on the top half and natural on the bottom half. The main reason for the color choice being his favorite color is red, but it also seemed fitting to have a red mini bat for a team with red in their name. The mini bat has the circle with red socks in it Boston Red Sox logo.

Mik's Mini Bat Collection: Fenway Park

At Fenway Park Mik got two mini bats. This one is green on the top half and natural on the bottom half. It says Fenway Park Established 1912.

Mik's Mini Bat Collection: Yankee Stadium Inaugural Season

At Yankee Stadium Mik choose one of the Inaugural Season mini bats. They had them in natural and dark blue. He went with the dark blue colored one. It has the 2009 Inaugural Season logo on it, which features the facade of Yankee Stadium in an oval that says Yankee Stadium Inaugural Season and 2009 in the center.

Mik's Mini Bat Collection: Doubleday Field

In Cooperstown there is a field called Doubleday Field that is on the site that they say Abner Doubleday basically invented baseball back in 1839. Mik wanted to find a mini bat that said Doubleday Field. At Cooperstown Bats we found a medium sized and big bat that said Doubleday Field, but no mini bat. We talked with them a little and worked out they could put part of the logo from the medium bat design on a mini bat, so Mik ended up with a special order mini bat that we picked up a half hour later as his Doubleday Field mini bat. It was not even that expensive, as it was about the same as the mini bat he got personalized at the Louisville Slugger Factory.

The mini bat has the Cooperstown Bats logo on it. The Doubleday Field logo says Doubleday Field, Cooperstown, N.Y., The Home of Baseball. There is also a C logo with a batter.

Mik's Mini Bat Collection: 2008 Hall of Fame Induction

Mik got a second bat at the National Baseball Hall of Fame because they had a special bag of goodies for only $8 that included this mini bat, a postcard, a ice cream helmet with the museum logo, and two 2008 pins. The bat is gold colored. It has the 2008 induction logo on it which includes the names of the 2008 class (Gossage, Dreyfus, Kuhn, O'Malley, Southworth, and Williams).

Mik's Mini Bat Collection: Brown National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

At the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Mik choose the dark brown colored bat. It has the logo of the Hall of Fame in gold colored ink.

Mik’s Mini Bat Collection: Blue Jays Mascot

At the Rogers Centre Mik choose a natural colored mini bat. The mini bat has a design with the Blue Jays logo and also the Blue Jays mascot on it.

Mik’s Mini Bat Collection: 2009 Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame Induction

Mik was excited at the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame that for once he got a mini bat and I was not able to get a baseball. They usually seemed to have baseballs, but with Induction Weekend having been the week before they were out of a lot of things they normally had in stock. They did still have some 2009 Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame Induction mini bats, though.

The 2009 Canadian Hall of Fame Induction mini bats are two colored with natural coloring on top and a reddish brown color on the bottom. One of the interesting things about this bat is that it is made by KR3, which is a Canadian bat manufacturer, rather than Louisville Slugger or Cooperstown Sports like most of the other mini bats in his collection. The mini bat has a small logo of the Canadian Hall of Fame. It says 2009 Induction June 20, 2009 and has the names of the four inductees this year (Roy “Doc” Miller, Bernie Soulliere, Larry Walker, and Ernie Whitt).