Fall Premier Auction 2018
Wed, Nov 21, 2018 04:00PM EST - Sat, Dec 8, 2018 11:00PM EST
Timed Auction
Lot 239
1946-48 RALPH KINER PITTSBURGH PIRATES GAME USED LOUISVILLE SLUGGER PRO MODEL BAT (PSA/DNA GU 8, CARDINALS DENTIST PROVENANCE)
Sold for
$2,198.40
Sold Price includes BP
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Ralph Kiner belted more home runs than anyone else in baseball during his10-year career but his achievements in the batter’s box are oftenovershadowed by his decades in the broadcast booth where he became oneof the game’s most recognizable personalities.Cut short by a back injury Kiner’s career on the field was among themost remarkable in baseball history featuring a concentrated display ofpower exhibited by few other sluggers. Kiner ranked among the games'signature stars in the era immediately after World War II in the sameconversation with Joe DiMaggio Ted Williams and Stan Musial. From 1946to 1955 playing for the Pittsburgh Pirates the Chicago Cubs and theCleveland Indians he totaled 369 home runs twice hitting more than 50in a season and drove in 1015 runs an average of more than 100 ayear. During his first seven seasons all with Pittsburgh Kiner led theNational League in home runs every year still a record streak foreither league. From 1947 to 1951 he had remarkable home run totals of51 40 54 47 and 42 becoming only the second player in history — BabeRuth was the first — to hit at least 40 home runs in five consecutiveseasons.
This 1946-48 Ralph Kiner Pirates era game-used Hillerich & Bradsby pro model G69L bat measures 35 inches and weighs 33.5 ounces. It remains un-cracked and exhibits evidence of light use with a small mounting hole in the knob. A few ball marks are visible on the left barrel. The model number ("G69L") is stamped into the knob. Includes LOA from John Taube of PSA/DNA with a GU 8 grade. Also comes with a letter from the son of a longtime St. Louis dentist who worked on many Cardinals players and received this bat as a gift.
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