Odd item
 

Ok, so I've seen this bat before sell in hunts acouple times and I think it was on ebay once. Why would they remove the Gehrig and Dimaggio autos just to fix the bat. First time sold for $43,000 which seems way too much. Then after removing the gehrig and DiMaggio it sells for little.



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To make room so the winner can get it signed by Derek Jeter and Don Mattingly?

Or perhaps the restorer mistakenly grabbed the bottle ink remover. Shemp did that once.

The original buyer may have excised the Gehrig signature, for placement onto a Gehrig model bat, giving the impression of a single signed Gehrig bat. And while at it, did a vintage DiMaggio impression of a single signed as well. This is arguably not a bad thing to do, so long as if the bat is resold, the creation of the bat is disclosed. Hard to find a single signed, non-personalized, Gehrig bat. And hard to find a vintage single signed DiMaggio bat. Sometimes collectors go to great lengths. :cool:

"Shemp did that once"........outstanding!!!!!

Maybe it turned out the signatures were forgeries, so they were removed?

I'm sort of pulling at straws here.

I would think that perhaps TOPPS or another card company bought it, removed the Gehrig & DiMag for their trading cards promotion, and then had the bat repaired, and are now trying to recover what ever money they can.

That's absolutely horrible.

I'm 25 and know how stupid that was, and I'm sure my little sister would too.

You're right, Cfern--it is horrible. But why is it horrible?

I'll tell you why. Because it's wrong to destroy artifacts. (Even if they're just signed polaroids.)

Agreed. Even if they had expertly 'fixed' the Gehrig/DiMaggio hole (which they didn't), they changed a historically-significant artifact.

It's not like team-signed vintage Yankees bats are something that can reproduce on their own, like Babe Ruth single-signed balls.