Batty the Bat Brown

Batty the Bat, in his brown and mocha rose coloring, was the first Beanie Baby made with velcro, sewn into his wings so they can be spread open or folded closed. Ty also produced a tie-dyed Batty alongside this standard coloring.

Batty went out at two baseball giveaways in the summer of 1998, with 12,000 handed out at a Milwaukee Brewers versus Florida Mariners game on 31 May and another 30,000 at a New York Mets versus Montreal Expos game on 12 July.

Documented oddities on Batty include examples turning up with tush tags meant for Bongo, Peace, Ringo, Roary or Zip, a reminder that a mismatched name on the tush tag is a known factory habit rather than proof of tampering.