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Lee Dunbar, Director of Sotheby’s Collectibles department, commented: “We are absolutely thrilled with the result of today’s sale. We’re extremely pleased that the Babe Ruth contract will go to a new owner, Peter Siegel, who is acutely aware of its special significance in sports history and that the proceeds are earmarked for a worthy cause.”
David Kohler, President of SCP Auctions, continued: “We are ecstatic about the sale of the Babe Ruth contract, which reached almost $1 million, a record for a sports document at auction. We treasure our great relationship with Sotheby’s and we look forward to another successful auction in the late fall.”
Among the other top highlights of today’s sale was Babe Ruth’s Signed Game Bat from 1920, used during his pivotal first season as a New York Yankee, arguably the most important of his storied career, which was bought for $216,000 by a private California collector over the phone (lot 183, est. $200/250,000). Signed and Presented to Chicago Mayor William “Big Bill” Thompson, the bat was used in a face-off between the Yankees and the Chicago White Sox in which the Sox beat the Yankees 6-4.
Mr. Siegel also purchased the rare Lou Gehrig 1934-36 H&B “Small Signature” Game Bat, which soared to $156,000 (lot 263, est. $50/70,000) from the Estate of Robert Moses “Lefty” Grove, one of the finest pitchers in baseball history and a mainstay of the Philadelphia Athletics and the Boston Red Sox.
The first baseball pitched at the 1912 Grand Opening of Fenway Park, home to the Boston Red Sox and the country’s oldest ballpark in operation, commanded $132,000 and was purchased by David Hunt, a baseball memorabilia auctioneer who was bidding in the room on behalf of a private client (lot 1, $30/50,000). On the ball, Tom Connolly, one of Major League Baseball’s first umpires, has inscribed “Fenway Park, First Ball Pitched, April 20, 1912,” as well as the pitching batteries, umpires and attendants and the final score: “Boston 7, New York 6”.
Also from the Tom Connolly Collection was a Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig signed
baseball, celebrating one of the most legendary hitting duos in the history
of the game, which sold to an online bidder for $42,000 (lot 12, est. $20/30,000).
Opening Day baseballs signed by important figures such as President Woodrow
Wilson from April 20, 1916 (lot 5, est. $20/30,000) and Vice President Calvin
Coolidge from April 13, 1921 (lot 11, est. $6/8,000), sold for $33,000 and
$39,000, respectively.
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