{"id":12689,"date":"2023-04-06T02:27:44","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T02:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12689"},"modified":"2023-04-25T02:31:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T02:31:08","slug":"babes-lumber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/04\/06\/babes-lumber\/","title":{"rendered":"Babe&#8217;s Lumber"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2023\/04\/babe-ruths-baseball-bat-sells-for-record-breaking-1-85-million\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from OBSERVER<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Babe Ruth\u2019s Baseball Bat Is Worth $1.85 Million<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>A Babe Ruth baseball bat initially purchased in 2018 for $400,000 has more than quadrupled in value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/author\/alexandra-tremayne-pengelly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/Babe-Ruth-baseball-bat-auction.jpg?quality=80\" alt=\"Black and white photograph of Babe Ruth swinging a baseball bat\" class=\"wp-image-1357311\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Babe Ruth at Polo Grounds in 1921.\u00a0Transcendental Graphics\/Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A baseball bat formerly used by Babe Ruth sold for $1.85 million in a private sale, breaking auction records to become the world\u2019s most valuable bat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The historic piece of sports memorabilia received the highest possible grading score from authentication company PSA, according to Hunt Auctions, an auction house based in Exton, Pennsylvania, which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HuntAuctions\/status\/1643626531334258691\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a>\u00a0the sale yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Used by Babe Ruth circa 1920 to 1921, the baseball bat is known as the \u201cPolo Grounds bat,\u201d taking its name from the Polo Grounds stadium used by the New York Yankees until 1922. Its sale surpasses the previous record for a baseball bat sold at auction, which was set in August when another game-used Ruth bat sold for $1.68 million in a sale from Dallas-based auction house Heritage Auctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2023\/04\/babe-ruths-baseball-bat-sells-for-record-breaking-1-85-million\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at OBSERVER<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from OBSERVER Babe Ruth\u2019s Baseball Bat Is Worth $1.85 Million A Babe Ruth baseball bat initially purchased in 2018 for $400,000 has more than quadrupled in value. By\u00a0Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly\u00a0 Babe Ruth at Polo Grounds in 1921.\u00a0Transcendental Graphics\/Getty Images A baseball bat formerly used by Babe Ruth sold for $1.85 million in a private sale, breaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}