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Babe Ruth’s Bat Used To Hit the First Home Run at Yankee Stadium – April
18, 1923
The Babe’s spectacular home run in Yankee Stadium’s first game is often recalled as one of the most dramatic moments in sports history. After his home run, Ruth, always supportive of kids and young ball players, donated the bat to The
Los Angeles Evening Herald newspaper to
be awarded as the top prize in a high school home run hitting
contest. On the bat, the Babe inscribed, “To
the Boy Home Run King of Los Angeles ‘Babe’ Ruth, N.Y. May
7, 1923.” The bat was awarded to Victor Orsatti by the Herald on June 7, 1923. Upon his death in 1984, Mr. Orsatti willed the bat, along with all of his personal effects, to his caretaker. She kept it in her possession, under her bed, until now. In honor of Victor Orsatti, and in the spirit of Babe Ruth’s inclination towards helping children, she intends to use a portion of her proceeds from the sale of this bat to fund a baseball program at an orphanage in Mexico, where she now spends a great deal of her time. Together with the bat is a telegram from Ruth congratulating Orsatti on his win as well as an album of newspaper cuttings and other mementoes relating to the contest. Since the bat made it’s first public debut at the Chicago National Sports Collector’s Convention in 2002, it has been unanimously heralded as the greatest discovery in the field of Sports Memorabilia by leading industry experts. Joe Orlando, President of PSA (Professional Sports Authenticator), whose firm was among the first to examine the piece, stated, “This Babe Ruth bat, in my opinion, is the most historically significant item we have authenticated to date and I cannot imagine the existence of another item on par with this one. The provenance, quality, and the story behind this bat make it one of the hobby’s most captivating treasures.”
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