Ruth/Gehrig baseball up for auction
 

If anyone has interest, some autographed baseballs and a few other sports items are in an auction run by:

Du Mouchelles
409 E. Jefferson Ave.
Detroit Michigan

313-963-6255

www.DUMOART.com

January 14-16, 2011

1929 not 1927
 

looks like 1929 team ball

Pic 1
Ruth Sweet Spot

Pic 2
Meusel
Combs
Ed Wells
Gehrig
Wilcy signed Cy Moore

Pic 3
Durocher
Koenig
Roy Sherid
Gene Robertson

Pic 4
Fred Heimach
Lyn Lary
Waite Hoyt (I think)
Sam Byrd
Pennock

Pic 5
Paschal
Lazzeri
Pipgrass
Shawkey

There are 2 players on the ball that were not on the 1927 or 28 team.
Ed Wells was with the Detroit Tigers in 1927. He was acquired by the Yanks in August 1928, but didn't play for them until 1929.
Roy Sherid's first game in the majors was May 11, 1929.
Also Leo Durocher was sold to the Reds in Feb of 1930, so he was off the team before the season. This should definitively date the ball to 1929.

Nice ball,
Mark

Nice work, Mark. I agree--it's a '29 ball. But there's still an anomaly: Shawkey retired after the '27 season.

David,
Got it covered.
Shawkey is listed as a Yankee coach in 1929.
He took over as manager in 1930.
Art Fletcher managed the last 11g of the 1929 season after Huggins died Sept 25 of erysipelas.
Mark

Oops! Forgot he was a coach.

Auction
 

Very nice items, thanks for the heads up.

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