LiveAuctionTalk com Highlights Babe Ruth`s All-Star Home Run Baseball in its Weekly Free Article
Released on = October 20, 2006, 6:09 am
Press Release Author = Rosemary McKittrick
Industry = Entertainment
Press Release Summary = Rosemary McKittrick's weekly column has been serving the art, antique and collectibles community for 16 years. It's a trusted source for collectors everywhere.
Press Release Body = October 20, 2006--In the bottom of the third inning in 1933, Babe Ruth smacked a two run home run off of National League pitcher Bill Hallahan. As the first home run in All-Star Game history sailed toward right field, the fans went wild.
It was one of those magic moments in baseball when time stands still and a sense of greatness filled the crowd. History was happening on the field and the fans knew it.
Earl Brown managed to get his hands on two tickets to that 1933 All-Star Baseball Game at Chicago's Comiskey Park. The finest players of the era like Ruth, Gehrig, Gomez, Foxx, Klein, Simmons, Grove and Terry were on deck before a crowd of 49,200 cheering fans.
As Brown watched the baseball soaring toward him from his right field seat, he reached up and stopped it with his bare hand. The ball seared his palm and the crowd exploded in acknowledgment. Brown's hand stayed red for the rest of the afternoon.
What added to the baseball's standing was the fact that it was the only home run hit by Ruth during his two All-Star appearances in 1933 and 1934.
This baseball is probably the most documented vintage, home run baseball of significance to show up on the auction block. It has it all from being a historically important baseball to an iron clad provenance plus the name Babe Ruth tagging alongside. With this kind of track record, the collectors line up at auction.
That's exactly what happened on July 11 when the baseball went on the block at Hunt Auctions All-Star Fanfest auction held in Pittsburgh, Pa.
The lot included Earl Brown's ticket stub to the game, a newspaper box score and summary of what happened, a notarized letter from Brown's wife and the home run baseball.
The Babe Ruth vintage baseball and accompanying items sold for $805,000.
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