Babe Ruth 1923 First-Home-Run-at-Yankee-Stadium Bat
- Maker
- Babe Ruth (New York Yankees)
- Year
- 1923
- Rank
- 59 of 100
Babe Ruth 1923 First-Home-Run-at-Yankee-Stadium Bat
Babe Ruth 1923 First-Home-Run-at-Yankee-Stadium Bat by Babe Ruth (New York Yankees) (1923) is ranked 59 in the FLOAT 100 for Memorabilia. It sold for $1,265,000. 'The House That Ruth Built' — the bat that christened it; one of the first sports items to break $1M.
What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?
'The House That Ruth Built' — the bat that christened it; one of the first sports items to break $1M.
46-oz Louisville Slugger used to hit the first home run in the original Yankee Stadium (Apr 18 1923)
What is the best-sourced number for it?
- Figure
- $1,265,000
- Kind
- Realized at auction
SCP Auctions. $1.265M.
This is a realized sale. Somebody paid it. Source.
How this is made
- The figure
- One reference price, taken from a named public source and shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
- Realized or not
- A realized price is a completed sale. A market asking price and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
- Why no grade ladder
- Most FLOAT 100 entries are individual objects. There is one of this, so there is no population and no spread across grades to show.
- Archive
- 2026-08-08