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Old 11-27-2025, 06:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Exhibitman View Post
…Except when it goes awesomely, disastrously, epically wrong, as it did for the 1914 Baltimore News Babe Ruth. Sold at auction with REA in 2023 for $7.2 million and resold by Heritage this year for $4.02 million.
But maybe the '23 auction was the outlier. Would 4M for the Ruth be considered any kind of disaster in that case? Has it sold for that much or more otherwise? It's hard for me to see that kind of money as anything but a wowser.

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