Sports Collectors Digest

Prized Babe Ruth bat highlights Heritage’s spring auction

The baseball bat Babe Ruth used to hit his 52nd home run during the 1921 season is among the featured items in the Spring Sports Collectibles Catalog Auction by Heritage Auctions.

Back in the day, Ruth’s most significant surviving game-used bats entered the collectibles world as presentation pieces to accomplished young ballplayers.

This particular bat was made a trophy for a teenage slugger by the name

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