Babe Ruth/Bob Feller bat and Barry Halper

[slidekellyslide]

I stopped at that museum on the way home from Adventureland last Summer. Nice little museum.

The bat in question






the museum

[Jay Wolt]

Dan great shots, thanks for posting them.
The large bat display is fantastic, really highlights the piece

[Mark]

I've seen Feller on tv making the claim that the Babe needed a bat to lean on and that he was given Feller's bat.

[mr2686]

When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

[Runscott]

The glove I recently picked up that was used by Feller's Dad to catch him, has a notecard signed by Feller that makes the same claim, but....there is also a Barry Halper letter to Sirsky. The Halper letter says something about Feller and him being good friends, and Feller was over one day viewing his collection. Feller told him about his Dad's glove, gave Halper a price, and Halper accepted.

A lot of the Halper stuff is legit, but I have no idea how much, or what. If I had only the Halper letter, and not the Feller, I would have to assume I had gotten ripped off. As it is, I am fairly sure Pickles would enjoy the glove if it turns out to be a fake.

[Jantz]

I had the opportunity, albeit briefly, to work with Bob Feller in 1994 and he was aware of the bat and wanted to acquire it for the museum.

The topic came up when I ask him a question about the museum & would there be other baseball items other than his own on display at the museum.

Thats when he began talking about his bat that Ruth used as a cane.

He also told me about a baseball that he had signed in person by Ruth and Gehrig for $5....but thats another story.


Jantz

[sylbry]

Any idea when Feller became aware of the bat? Perhaps he knew of the Ruth connection because Halper told him about it? And the problem with that is Halper told a lot of people a lot of things that were later found out not to be true.