If you had exactly $117,603.60 to spend on a Prewar Ruth/Gehrig item, which one?

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by darwinbulldog

I've never bought a bat outside of a sporting goods store, but for that one I'll choose the bat.

But this bat will have sweat embedded in its fibers, and based upon Pat R's research above there is a decent possibility that this bat doesn't have the strongest provenance, and thus that sweat is possibly not from the Babe.

If the embedded sweat is possibly not Ruth's, how many of you would be swayed to hypothetically fork over 117k+ instead to Lou's 'handled by less sweaty hands' rookie card?


Brian

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

But this bat will have sweat embedded in its fibers, and based upon Pat R's research above there is a decent possibility that this bat doesn't have the strongest provenance, and thus that sweat is possibly not from the Babe.

If the embedded sweat is possibly not Ruth's, how many of you would be swayed to hypothetically fork over 117k+ instead to Lou's 'handled by less sweaty hands' rookie card?


Brian

The bat has an 8.5 grade from PSA/Mr Taube so I will stick with the bat.

[Casey2296]

I'm 100% card guy and I would have taken the bat n this particular case, until I read Pats post, thank you for your amazing research Pat (as usual).

Memorabilia provenance can be so suspect it makes me shy away, same reason I don't collect autographs.

[Jobu]

I'm just amazed that PSA carved the qualifier right into the bat like that.