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CIRCA
- 1923-1957
(I.M.D.D. Bats)
1958-1973 (E.C.I.
Baseball Bats)
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MANUFACTURER
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Institute For Defective
Delinquent and
Eastern
Correctional
Institution
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E.C.I. - Eastern Correctional
Institution is a state prison for men
in Napanoch, Ulster County, New York.
Opening in 1900, it is one of
the oldest prison facilities in the
state. In 1921 Eastern became the first
of the institutions for defective
delinquents in the United States.
I.M.D.D. - Institute for Male Defective
Delinquent at Napanoch was a facility
that housed people with intellectual
disabilities who had run into trouble
with the law.
Legislation in 1923 authorized the establishment of prison industries at
Napanoch. They installed an aluminum
shop where inmates spun aluminum on
lathes and manufactured plates, cups,
bowls, pitchers, steamers, and other
marketable products. The items were stamped with an
Indian head identical to the one on the
I.M.D.D. baseball bat, but with the
letters I.D.D., Napanoch NY on the back
or underside.
The woodshop is where inmates turned
out, handles for tools of all
descriptions, brooms or baseball bats.
Fire ripped though the industrial
building at the Eastern Correctional
Facility in 1974, demolishing the
furniture woodworking shop. Napanoch began to
receive normal inmates in 1957, and the
next year was renamed the Eastern
Correctional Institution, dating the
I.M.D.D. bats to about 1923-1957, and
the E.C.I. bats to about 1958-1973.
Both bats feature the Indian head
center brand, with the later more
refined.
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E.C.I. And I.M.D.D
Napanoch NY Baseball Bats |
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E.C.I. Napanoch NY
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