Babe Ruth Baseball Club Baseball

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Posted By: <b>chrisd22</b><p>Hey everybody,<br /><br />I was wondering about the scarcity and value of this ball I have. It is a Spaulding Babe Ruth baseball club ball and has the imprint "Home Run Special" on it, and next to that is the Babe Ruth autograph, which I'm almost sure is a facsimile. I just know it came from his baseball club. If anybody has any more info on this ball, I'd appreciate to know. Thanks.

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Posted By: <b>scgaynor</b><p>Is this it?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.lelands.com/bid.aspx?auctionid=711&lot=425" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://www.lelands.com/bid.aspx?auctionid=711&lot=425</a>

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Posted By: <b>Mark Steinberg</b><p>It's a desirable ball (obviously, based on Leland's price realized...) <br /><br />The value is heavily dependent on condition and whether you still have the box. The Leland's example had BOTH going for it, which is incredibly rare.<br /><br />If you want to post some images of yours, that would be welcomed.

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Posted By: <b>marty quinn</b><p> hi chris,<br /> is this it??, mine is an officailspalding "babe ruth" home run special ball, mine does have the facsimile sig, it also has a "real" babe ruth sig. the photo might be light to see, but the sig. on mine is a 5...psa/dna cert...pls see the pic <br /><br /><img src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o297/mightyq117/044.jpg"><br /><img src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o297/mightyq117/001.jpg"><br /><img src="http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o297/mightyq117/002.jpg"><br /><br />hi aaron, mine is very clean, my box is beat up but fully comlpete with no repair, i have seen about a dozen of these balls over the years, most are toned, mine and the one you found in auction are the cleanest i have seen, the box is ultra rare!! i have been looking for a better one for 4 years now with no luck, this may be as good as it gets.

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Posted By: <b>Aaron M.</b><p>Marty Quinn, you dog! That is a friggen' awesome piece of sports memorabilia! And here I thought you were just the King of PSA Non-Sports Cards. <br /><br />To the OP, Marty's ball with the original signature shoots the value through the roof, but your general rule of thumb is the ball (if in clean condition) is worth about $700 - $1,000. If you have the Babe Ruth portrait picture box along with it, then you can double the value (at least).

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Posted By: <b>Aaron M.</b><p>Here's the most recent sale of the Saplding version I could find -- from last April's Robert Edward Auction. Clean ball and clean box sold for $2,200. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.robertedwardauctions.com/auction/2007/919.html" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://www.robertedwardauctions.com/auction/2007/919.html</a><br /><br /><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1198880333.JPG">