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Mission Viejo, CA 92691
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CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE PRICES REALIZED FROM THIS AUCTION
SOTHEBY’S AND SCP Auctions
SELL HISTORIC BABE RUTH BAT
FOR A RECORD $1,265,000
BAT USED TO KNOCK OUT THE FIRST HOME RUN IN YANKEE STADIUM WAS PURCHASED BY AN ANONYMOUS EAST COAST COLLECTOR
 New York, New York, December 2, 2004 – This afternoon, in an overflowing salesroom, SCP Auctions and Sotheby’s sold Babe Ruth’s signed bat used to slam the first home run in Yankee Stadium for $1,265,000, a record for a baseball bat at auction. Applause erupted in the room when the hammer finally fell, and “The Holy Grail” of sports memorabilia was purchased by a prominent East Coast collector. The bat now stands as one of only three pieces of sports memorabilia to eclipse the $1 million mark. It was included in a sale of 311 lots of Important Baseball Memorabilia which brought a total of $4,687,486. Remarkably, the average price per lot in this unprecedented event was $15,072. “We are thrilled with the overall results of this auction, and are pleased that the Ruth bat, along with its accompanying documentation will now be the centerpiece in the most comprehensive private collection of Babe Ruth memorabilia known” said SCP Auctions Auction Director Dan Imler. “Since the bat was first made public and authenticated by all of the industry’s leading experts in 2002, this individual has repeatedly expressed his intense desire to acquire this treasure.” Imler said. Other record setting highlights of the day included Mickey
Mantle’s First Major League Home Run Ball, which sold for $189,750, Sandy
Koufax’s 1963 No-Hitter Game Worn Spalding Frank Bolling Model 42-212 Glove, which brought $126,500, Home
Plate from Yankee Stadium circa 1923-1973, which sold for $115,000, a Giant
1920 Babe Ruth Signed Display Photograph, which sold for $149,500, Babe
Ruth’s New York Yankees Flannel Road Pants, circa 1933, which soared past a pre-sale estimate of $15/25,000 to sell for $109,250, and Lou
Gehrig's 1936 New York Yankees Signed Contract (MVP Season), which sold for $115,000 against a high estimate of $65,000.
Lee Dunbar, Director of Sotheby’s Collectibles Department and David Kohler, President of SCP Auctions, said, “The sale was a home run. This bat has the distinction of being the second most valuable piece of sport memorabilia ever sold, tying the price achieved for Honus Wagner T206 Baseball Card PSA 8. The success of the sale reinforces the fact that baseball is still America’s national pastime.”
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