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1928/1929 YANKEES SIGNED BASEBALL
A two-color stitched Official National League baseball with eight black ink signatures including Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Leo Durocher among others. The ball has a naturally-toned darkish hue, but still maintains great eye appeal and an even better story which is relayed in an included letter of provenance from our consignor. In part: our consignor's grandfather (who was a fourteen year-old kid at the time) caught this foul ball hit by Babe Ruth in the 1928 Yankee exhibition game that took place in Hartford, Connecticut. After the game, he went to the hotel lobby where the Yankees were staying and obtained most of the signatures there except for one - that of Babe Ruth as the ballplayer was just getting into a taxi. The kid ran to the cab, jumped on its running board while the car was moving, and shoved the ball through the open window where he obtained the last and most memorable signature.
A two-color stitched Official National League baseball with eight black ink signatures including Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Leo Durocher among others. The ball has a naturally-toned darkish hue, but still maintains great eye appeal and an even better story which is relayed in an included letter of provenance from our consignor. In part: our consignor's grandfather (who was a fourteen year-old kid at the time) caught this foul ball hit by Babe Ruth in the 1928 Yankee exhibition game that took place in Hartford, Connecticut. After the game, he went to the hotel lobby where the Yankees were staying and obtained most of the signatures there except for one - that of Babe Ruth as the ballplayer was just getting into a taxi. The kid ran to the cab, jumped on its running board while the car was moving, and shoved the ball through the open window where he obtained the last and most memorable signature.