Homerun Balls

[william_9]

Whichever ball he hit (if either) it still isn't the last home run of the 20th century.

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by william_9

Whichever ball he hit (if either) it still isn't the last home run of the 20th century.

The last HR of the 20th century was hit by Derek "$500 to sign your index card" Jeter on Oct 26, 2000 in Shea Stadium.

Doug

[travrosty]

the heritage listing only claims the ball to be the last hr hit of the 1900's, which is correct.

last hr of the 20th century, different story.

[thecatspajamas]

Man, I thought we were past these kinds of arguments after the world didn't end at midnight in either 1999 OR 2000...

As for the provenance of the homerun balls, Legendary sent out an e-mail this morning promoting their auction with the following blurb which, sort of maybe (with some extrapolation), explains the confusion:

"Although a batch of Jim Leyritz memorabilia hit the market a few years ago via his ex-wife, Jim assured us that the game-used bats and balls presented here were not displayed in hishome—and thus never accessed by his ex-wife or ever made available to the public. Furthermore, he insisted we utilize third-party authenticators in order to inextricably link each milestone item to its respective event … and utilize them we did.

Throughout the process, Legendary sought to do everything in our power (and wallet) to ensure the most definitive third-party certification. For example, PSA Authenticator John Taube exhaustively researched the 1996 World Series Game 4 Home Run bat through frame-by-frame analysis of game footage, resulting in a quartet of irrefutable photo matches.

As previously stated, that extremely significant bat—as well asevery other bat, ball and jersey in the Jim Leyritz Collection—was appropriately marked by Leyritz right after the event, and then housed under lock and key…until now."

[packs]

Has Heritage responded to this?

[dallen]

Items sold by Leyritz's wife came with a LOA from her not from Jim. Most of these items were absolutely authentic.

There were two items we have knowledge were sold by her that we are selling now: (1) the 1996 walk off HR bat which John Taube has independently viewed video evidence to prove our bat is authentic and the other one is a fraud (take time to review the amazing work that was done to identify spexific ball transfer marks from the two foul balls and the home run which leaves NO DOUBT) and (2) this ball.

More information to come as we work through this.

I am happy to answer any specific questions interested bidders may have. I can be reached at dallen@legendaryauctions.com

[packs]

Originally Posted by dallen

Items sold by Leyritz's wife came with a LOA from her not from Jim. Most of these items were absolutely authentic.

There were two items we have knowledge were sold by her that we are selling now: (1) the 1996 walk off HR bat which John Taube has independently viewed video evidence to prove our bat is authentic and the other one is a fraud (take time to review the amazing work that was done to identify spexific ball transfer marks from the two foul balls and the home run which leaves NO DOUBT) and (2) this ball.

More information to come as we work through this.

I am happy to answer any specific questions interested bidders may have. I can be reached at dallen@legendaryauctions.com

But in the e-mail posted your company claims that these items were not sold by his wife. Now you're saying they were but are authentic.