A baseball hit into the right field bleachers at Yankee Stadium in the 1930's. It was not commonplace for players to sign balls in those days, but the home run was important enough that when a fan appeared after the game with his young son and showed the ball to departing players, Lou Gehrig, Lefty Gomez and Babe Ruth signed it.
I knew the young son, who became a Catholic priest. I was his early morning altar server for a couple of years. When he was dying of cancer he gave me the ball and the sketchy information about it's history.
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