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Babe Ruth’s 500th homer bat could go for $1 million at auction
The bat Babe Ruth used to smack his 500th home run is expected to fetch upwards of $1 million when it goes up on the auction block — 75 years after the historic blast. The Louisville Slugger still has marks where the Babe’s bat hit the ball, and where he knocked mud off his cleats before slugging the historic blast in Cleveland’s League Park in 1929. The Yankees legend gave the bat to buddy Jim Rice, the former mayor of Suffern in Rockland County, in the mid-1940s — and it sat in the corner behind the family TV for years, Rice’s son said. Terry Rice, an attorney in Suffern, was born two years after Ruth ... (full story)