Game Used Hit Baseball Collection

[mrjohnmalton]

Michael Brantley's 200th career double. Brantley doubled off of Joe Musgrove on May 21, 2017 at Minute Maid Park. The Indians would go on to defeat the Astros 8-6.

[fredskinz]

Picked up a final out game used ball from Mickey Mantle's 3rd career game. In the last Leland's auction I picked up a set of eight hand-painted game used baseballs from the collection of former MLB pitcher Sandy Consuegra. I collect George Sosnak balls so this set really intrigued me. All of the balls are last outs from Consuegra wins, mostly from 1954 and 1955 from his days with the White Sox.

The one unpainted ball just has the line score and rosters. That trophy ball is definitely from the 4/20/51 game (game 1) between the Senators and Yankees, which just so happened to be Mantle's 3rd career game. The ball is again likely from the final out, which was a flyball off the bat of Yogi Berra. But DiMaggio and Mantle batted before Yogi (Mantle hit his first career triple), so I guess it's remotely possible that the ball was used in play prior to the final out. Either way, it's a ball from Mantle's 3rd career game, first road game.

I would like to thank Leland's for not properly researching their items and allowing collectors to find gems like this. If anyone has video or a pitch-by-pitch of this game please let me know.

[tweeter167]

I was collecting Yoenis Cepedes hits, but decided to stop that collection and start picking up Michael Conforto Hits.

thought this was cool because the face was hit off the ball

[SEAFAN76]

[SEAFAN76]