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Howard W. RosenbergI'm home with a cold and hardly turn to CNBC during the day, but happened to catch the last 2 minutes. During that time, Hunt showed four items I saw from his upcoming auction, mostly baseballs, including an autographed Babe Ruth one and mentioned that Ruth was the first player to widely sign balls on the sweet spot. The very last item was a black betsy Joe Jackson bat that he thinks will fetch $3,000 to $4,000. About a month ago, I saw Mike Gutierrez appraising on the Antique Roadshow on PBS. But the funniest thing was about two years ago: there's a Dummy Hall for Hall of Fame movement, and somebody I know (not by face) from Columbus, Ohio, was wearing such a shirt at the Columbus version of the show, and I immediately knew who it was--and got to meet him in person at Gallaudet U. here in D.C. last May with all his Dummy Hoy scrapbooks.