Here is the item I rec'd today.
It is a 1912-1917 Game Used International League Baseball. The significance of this is 2-fold. Well first great story and luck for me. The seller incorrectly listed this as a 1930's National League Baseball. However after researching it is not that, what it is is an authentic deadball era baseball, before the lively 1920 balls came into play.
It sold for 400+ but the buyer must not have paid, lucky for me who was the underbidder, however the seller offered to me for my underbid for $400, but I saw that the next closest bidder was 250 so I declined & decided to roll the dice, and he re-listed and I won at the last minute for 150!!!!!
Back to the ball, it has the stamping of International League and then on another panel Edward Barrow President. He was President of that Intl. League from 1912-1917, thus dates the ball.
The Babe Ruth connection. Babe Ruth played his only minor league season in 1914 for both Baltimore and Providence both in this very same International League. I'm not saying Babe Ruth touched this ball, but who knows. I just think it is very cool a ball from the only minor league he played in, and I've been watching baseballs for awhile and have not seen one come up, although who knows, if anyone has one let me know!
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