Shoeless Joe Jackson 'Black Betsy' Bat
- Maker
- Shoeless Joe Jackson
- Year
- c.1900s
- Rank
- 85 of 100
Shoeless Joe Jackson 'Black Betsy' Bat
Shoeless Joe Jackson 'Black Betsy' Bat by Shoeless Joe Jackson (c.1900s) is ranked 85 in the FLOAT 100 for Memorabilia. It sold for $577,610 in August 2001. A then-record baseball bat; relic of the Black Sox scandal's central figure.
What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?
A then-record baseball bat; relic of the Black Sox scandal's central figure.
Jackson's 40-oz hickory game bat 'Black Betsy', inherited from his widow
What is the best-sourced number for it?
- Figure
- $577,610
- Kind
- Realized at auction
- Date
- August 2001
eBay 10-day online auction (consignor Lester Erwin). $577,610.
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