Any Item In Your Collection HOF Worthy?

[harpt]

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Road Detroit Tigers 1968 flannel of Al Kaline #6.

Forgive me if you've posted this before and I missed it, but i would love to see a photo of this jersey. My father-in-law is a great Kaline fan.

[allstarsplus]

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I am glad Steve posted a few photos so everyone could get a small glimpse into his private museum, and hopefully those that didn't realize before what an asset Steve is to the Forum now understand that he has one of the best baseball HR hitters collections outside of the HOF.

I am happy to have helped Steve on some of his smaller (compared to these bats) acquisitions and happy to call Steve a good friend.

Now that Steve has shared with the world these photos, he has lost some of his anonymity while gaining some nice accolades.

This is such a great topic that was started, and unfortunately so many with HOF quality collections probably won't post for a variety of reasons.

[Larry Pelliccioni]

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Road Detroit Tigers 1968 flannel of Al Kaline #6.

[geoff]

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Wow those Bats are very Nice.

[Mac670]

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Suicide

One awesome collection of bats. Trully, Hall of Fame. Why go to Cooperstown, all you need is to look at your stuff.


Anthony

[suicide_squeeze]

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Incredible group! I love Hank but I couldn't decide which bat I'd rather have...if I could afford even one! What is the rough market value of that group...btw? chris

Chris, that's a loaded question. The Ruth bat could go for well over $100K by itself. The others, individually, could approach that number on a good day in a healthy economy. But to any one collector, value could be based on the pure collectibility of the player they are going after, to try to obtain that one centerpiece for their collection. So with that in mind, this grouping is worth a potential bundle.

It's my personal "401K".

I hate the stock market and will never invest it in. It's riddled with fraud. These pieces bring such a warm sense of everything that is right about America, through the greatest sport ever invented in the world IMO, baseball. That's why I collect.


Enjoy.....Thanks to all for the nice comments......glad to share with you guys.

[cjw]

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Incredible group! I love Hank but I couldn't decide which bat I'd rather have...if I could afford even one! What is the rough market value of that group...btw? chris

[slam]

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Wow!

[spartakid]

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Beautiful....

[yanks12025]

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suicide,
All i can say is WOW!

[Swoboda4]

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"suicide squeeze,your talking my kind of talk"
"What do you think Fast Eddie?"

"That's the best five I've ever seen. The best,Fats"


"suicide squeeze,now you're "talking"."

[suicide_squeeze]

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...last three...

[suicide_squeeze]

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(cont.)

[suicide_squeeze]

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In order, the bats mentioned below....



-Babe Ruth's last game used at-bat lumber;

-Ted Williams 517th career home run bat;

-Roger Maris' 49th home run from 1961;

-Hank Aaron's 740th home run bat (hit off of H.O.F. Nolan Ryan);

-Willie Mays' 620 career home run bat;

[suicide_squeeze]

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Individually, I would say these bats are each museaum pieces. Together, I'd put them up against any grouping of five bats in the world....

-Babe Ruths very last at bat game used bat; It is important to note this bat is a one-year model 1932 bat. It was picked up off the field by Wally Berger, who upon hearing the Babe utter the imfamous words "I quit". asked Ruth if he could keep tha bat as a momento. Babe replied "Sure kid, keep it." Wally Berger kept the bat as his favorite keepsake until the day he died. His wife ended up giving the bat to Barry Halper, where the bat resided until the famous Halper collection auction of 1999. The fact that the bat is a 1932 model, many historians have argued, that it could have been one of Babe's favorites, and a bat that having been around for four years may have been used to hit a substantial amount of Babe's late home runs. Although that is pure speculation, one has to wonder why Babe would keep a bat around from 1932 and still be using it in 1935....the bat that marked the end of the most hollowed career in baseball history.

-Ted Williams 517th home run bat. (In 1939, Ted Williams hit his 28th home run of his rookie season off of Thornton Lee. a pitcher for the Chicago White Sox. 21 years later, he hit this home run off of Thornton's son, Don Lee, of Washington.) Also, tha bat is the rare "U1" model ordered by Ted only one time in his entire career, in 1960...a 36" 35 oz. warclub! Ted himself publicly presented the bat to a local car dealership owner, a personal friend of Ted and a large donator to Ted's favorite charity, the "Jimmy Fund", where the bat was displayed on the wall of the dealership until his family later sold the bat after his death.

-Roger Maris' 49th home run bat from 1961; This bat was obtained by a Cleveland security guard while securing the dug-out of the Yankees just after Maris hit his 49th home run of the season against the Indians. The guard, upon receiving the bat from Maris himself wrote a letter to a daughter telling her of his amazing gift, and gave her the bat. In his letter, he mentions to her to "Keep this bat. It will be worth something some day." The bat, which has an overlined/underlined "MARIS" written in Roger's hand is about as close to a Rgaer Maris signed gamer as one could ever hope to find.

-Hank Aaron's 740th home run bat; Hit off of the one and only Nolan Ryan, signed and dated by both, with Hank Aaron adding the home run inscription. This bat is the highest known home run bat held in private hands that has reasched the public auction circuit...a pretty amazing piece.

-Willie Mays' 620th home run bat; This bat, upon my winning it, became a 5 year project for me. It comes with a signed "Willie Mays" letter on Giants stationery attesting to the fact it was his 620th home run, also his 2,999 career hit, which was marked as such by the bat boy at the time of the event. I Met Willie four times to have him sign it, and finally add the infamous inscription. Willie, being no fool in this collectors hobby of ours, made me pay handsomely to have it simply signed, then refused to add the rest. That's because he knew I would come see him again, and he could ream me for more money to get him to add the inscription, which is exactly what happened. As it stands, this is the ONLY KNOWN signed and inscribed Willie Mays home run bat in the hobby.....and has impeccable provenance.

Pictures to follow.