Foul Ball off the bat of Lou Gehrig
 

from 1929....

just picked it up......maybe the coolest item I've owned (...........available if interested)

Awesome ball!!!

Just amazing!! I wonder if 90 years from now someone will be drooling of the Ryan Zimmerman Home Run ball I caught at Citi Field a few years ago. Doubt it since its Zimmerman and not Gehrig. IMO I think a foul ball from that Bat of Lou Gehrig is cooler than just a plain autographed ball from him

Where did you get it from?


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And can you show the rest of the ball? Manufacturer's stampings, unsigned panels, etc?

Thanks all, and the stampings while light are visable, and consistent with the right ball for that year. I have Brandon's ball guides at home.

Unfort. I am in the middle of moving so not sure when I can get more pix up, but fairly soon I'll try and get those.

How much..

Love it! Even cooler would be to know the exact date (to possibly tie it with the pitcher that threw it!)

I started looking......the Yankees played 18 games at home during the month of September, 1929. 6 double headers (ahhh, the good ole' days!). Checking the box scores at baseball-reference.com revealed the following pitchers that faced Gehrig in NY during that span (obviously no way to know the counts in the AB's, let alone which AB's contained a foul ball):

DETROIT TIGERS:
George Uhle
Ownie Carroll
Skinny Graham
Augie Prudhomme
Vic Sorrell
Emil Yde
Earl Whitehill
Phil Page

ST. LOUIS BROWNS:
General Crowder
Sam Gray
George Blaeholder
Jack Ogden

CLEVELAND INDIANS:
Ken Holloway
Willis Hudlin
Johnny Miljus
Jake Miller
Wes Ferrell
Milt Shoffner

CHICAGO WHITE SOX:
Hal McKain
Ted Lyons
Red Faber
Roy Sherid

We know Lou didn't sit out any of those games, to save you the trouble of looking that part up : )

....but very cool for checking on the pitching, thanks!

Haha, no doubt. He didn't leave those games early, either. To make it even easier, most opposing pitchers threw complete games during that span.....big exception for the Tigers (they used the 'pen in that Yankee series like they were ahead of their time!)

I've always liked foul balls -- here's a collection I purchased years ago from the family of a man who had front row seats along the third base line of Municipal Stadium.

Greg