Gehrig game used bat found

dennis07

Article
"Talk about hitting the jackpot ... a NY family learned a baseball bat specifically kept in the house for beating off intruders ... IS WORTH A FORTUNE ... 'cause it was used by Lou Gehrig!

The story is pretty crazy ... the family says they came into possession of the bat decades ago when a family member of a former NY Yankees groundskeeper gave it to them as a gift.

Clearly, they thought it was just a regular bat ... and kept it behind the front door of the home for "protection" ... and it stayed there for 30 years.

That is, until someone realized it wasn't just an old piece of wood ... but a 1929-31 Lou Gehrig game-used bat ... one of the few Gehrig bats known to exist.

Now, the bat is hitting the auction block through Love of the Game Auctions ... and we're told the opening bid will be $20,000.


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Stingray

Did he ever use this brand of bat during his career??

Griffins

Gehrig did. It's been authenticated by PSA/Taube and the provenance is solid. I don't think I've ever seen baseball collectables in TMZ like it was tonite. It's all over the Washington Post, Fortune and other sites.

vols1

This seams to indicate it's a store model. Mears

dennis07

"This seams to indicate it's a store model"

I'll have to re-read the article after another cup of coffee but the article seems to says that Gehrig did use the Hanna-Batrite bats in games.