Babe Ruth's 60th Home Run Ball 1927
 

I always wondered what happened to this ball. Wonder who has it now?

Interesting article, thanks for sharing, James. The article has enough clues where I could almost see someone like Ken Goldin hiring a PI to try to track down Herb's son or grandson in an attempt to bring the ball to auction.

With strong enough provenance, what would that ball fetch at auction? $3mil to $5mil? That would be quite the historical piece.

The Hall of Fame tells a different story
https://baseballhall.org/discover/sh...0and%20Museum.

Interesting as well, Robert.

Check this out also:

1992 article from the LA Times -- Ball for Ruth’s 60th Home Run Won’t Take to Heir Anymore

and then this Chicago Tribune article from 2021 mentions that the son, George Siegel, will be auctioning off the ball in San Fancisco, but the article is behind a paywall so I can't read it.

Looks like the Chicago Tribune article is similar to the LA Times one, each of them re-posting an AP article. The dates are confusing, though -- 1992 vs. 2021.

I don't have the time to dig into this further, but it does look like there might be some contradiction behind who actually has the 60th HR ball. The HOF claims that their ball was snagged by Joe Forner at the game, not a young Herb Siegel.

Anyone have the scoop?

Shown before but this is hanging behind my home office desk and sort of on topic. Sorry for the glare from my outside window. Lou was ahead of Ruth in home runs near the half-way point, as the poster says.

Cool Piece
As always your collection continues to amaze

6Wow, that's WAY cool, sir!

This is a page from one of my scrapbooks; opening day 1928 after the Ruth & Gehrig home run barrage of the year before.

Trivia question
 

Who knows what other monumental occurrence of baseball history took place in the same game?

I know what it is, and it is monumental. But rather than spoil the party, let's see if anyone else knows.

It was Walter Johnson's last game before he retired from major league baseball.

Yes, WaJo pinch-hit for Tom Zachary, who had given up Ruth's 60th HR, and flied out to Ruth for his last appearance in a ML game. How's that for full circle?

I wasn't aware of all of those events happening in one incredible sounding game!

My question is if Johnson had pre-planned for this to be his final game before realizing it would very well be the same day of Ruth's 60th, or if he came to this decision closer to when that information would have been on the radar. "If Babe does it, I'll quit then, as a nice way to cap off two things at once!"

No, it was all serendipitous. The uniform Walter wore that day is in the HOF, from the cap to the cleats.

Here is another newspaper from NJ. This is owned by my good friend whose grandfather broke into a newspaper and took this after he hit the HR. It has been in the family for years. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...8cd09f57f5.jpg


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Broke into a newspaper? To save a nickel?

Good question, he did not expand on the story. Maybe they grabbed a bunch to sell on the corner.