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Babe Ruth-autographed baseball with video of signing headlines Memory Lane auction
Babe Ruth-signed baseballs surface often and typically sell for big dollars on the sports collectibles market.
But there has only been one Babe-signed relic accompanied by a video of Ruth signing the ball.
Ruth signed the ball for a young boy at Yankee Stadium in the summer of 1929. It is believed to be the only Ruth-autographed baseball documented by video of the actual signing.
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The ball first hit the market in 2012 at Memory Lane Inc. It surfaced again five years ago when Memory Lane offered it as part of the Thomas Newman Collection.
The unique ball is up for bid again, headlining the Spring Rarities Auction at Memory Lane. It not only comes with a certificate of authentication from PSA/DNA, but is accompanied by the video from the signing.
The auction, which includes more than 1,460 high-end vintage cards and memorabilia lots, opens May 21 and runs through June 6. It features hundreds of high-grade classics, including a large run of high-grade 1952 and 1953 Topps baseball cards and more than 168 tobacco-card lots.
Also featured is more than 90 lots from the Roberto Clemente Collection, one of the most comprehensive single-player archives ever presented at public auction. The collection spans Topps issues from 1955 through 1972, along with rare regional, team, test and Topps Venezuelan cards.
Top Clemente lots include: a 1955 Topps #164 Rookie (PSA 8); 1968 Topps 3-D Clemente (PSA 10); and a 1961 Topps #41 N.L. Batting Leaders card (PSA 10).
Other vintage baseball highlights include a 1948 Leaf #8 Satchel Paige Rookie (PSA 7), and multiple 1933 Goudey Babe Ruth cards.
High-end autograph cards include:
• 1969 Topps #260 Reggie Jackson rookie (PSA 9, Auto 10).
• 1969 Topps #25 Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) Rookie (PSA 8, Auto 10).
• 1955 Topps #50 Jackie Robinson (PSA 3, Auto 8).
• 1970 Topps Super #12 Roberto Clemente (PSA 7, Auto 9).
Top basketball lots include a sealed 1984-85 Star Chicago Bulls team set that contains the Michael Jordan rookie card in its original factory packaging.
Modern cards include a 2024 Topps 50/50 Shohei Ohtani Autograph Relic-Gold (#20/50) (PSA 10, Auto 10), and a #1/1 2024 Topps Dynasty Derek Jeter Auto Logo Patch card with the AU MLB logo (PSA 10).
