Beckett Authenticated Babe Ruth Game Worn & Multi-Signed World Series Fielder's Glove

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He didn't break home run records--he obliterated them. The price for his services was likewise unprecedented (and we're talking dollars, not years "Bambino's Curse" suffering for the sellers). He hit the first home run in Yankee Stadium and led the franchise to its first of twenty-seven World Championships that same year. He tripled his promised tally of home runs for a hospitalized kid named Johnny Sylvester in 1926, and swatted five dozen the next year as part of the greatest baseball team ever assembled. He called his shot in 1932. He hit the first All-Star Game home run in 1933. Half of Japan clamored to see him in 1934 and he was inducted as part of the Hall of Fame's 1939 inaugural class. But when asked for a list of his proudest moments, the Called Shot was number three. Number two was his running catch of Frank Frisch's long drive to record the last out of the 1928 World Series.

Number one was his fourteen-inning pitching masterpiece in Game Two of the 1916 World Series.

While that selection first lands upon the brain with a bit of surprise—the greatest slugger ever counts a pitching performance as his pinnacle?—the logic of the choice gains clarity upon deeper consideration. A home run is ephemeral, a fleeting dopamine spike. In thirty seconds, you're back in the dugout, the cheers of the crowd tapering down. But there's nothing else in sports quite like the exquisite agony of a high-stakes pitcher's duel. It's a fever that grips the body of every participant and spectator and doesn't let go. It's a high-wire act in which the net below grows flimsier with each passing inning until it crumbles to nothing at the ninth and beyond. Any stumble is doom.

For two and a half hours, the twenty-one year old southpaw was squeezed in the grip of it, sacrificing an inside-the-park solo home run in the first frame before reeling off thirteen goose eggs for his Boston Red Sox against the National League Champion Brooklyn Dodgers. Ruth himself sacrificed home the tying run in the bottom of the third inning at Braves Field, borrowed for the Fall Classic from the Red Sox' neighbors of the Senior Circuit for its greater seating capacity. Over forty thousand packed the stands on October 9, 1916, where they remained perched on the edges of their seats until Red Sox pinch hitter Del Gainer singled home pinch runner Mike McNally in the bottom of the fourteenth for the walk-off winner. Ruth would ultimately extend his World Series scoreless innings streak to 29 1/3, a record that stood until Whitey Ford broke it in 1961, the second blow to Ruth's supremacy levied by a Yankee that year after Roger Maris' improbable sixty-one home runs.

Heritage Auctions is deeply honored to present to the collecting community an artifact of which no reasonable hobbyist had ever dare to dream, the fielder's glove worn by Babe Ruth in his greatest moment in baseball, personally authenticated in Ruth's own hand. Many will consider this the most significant game used item ever to be placed upon the hobby's auction block.

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