If you extrapolate the price of the Gibson pieces to other pieces ie. Maz, Carter, etc you are not going to come up with a proper value. Will you have two people as interested in those bats as were interested in the Gibson one? Maybe, maybe not.
It was important enough to two bidders to warrent the price. Hell Dave Henderson's 1986 ALCS home run bat is more important to me than Gibson's, and I would pay more for it than Gibson's, but that doesn't matter because I am not winning either of those pieces.
A charity got some good money, some nice collectors are happy with their win, and people are complaining? I didn't realize there were that many underbidders.
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